Dangerous Work: Spartan Mosquitoes
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- Опубликовано: 24 мар 2016
- Brought to you by:
The Calgary Mosquito Society
www.calgarymosquitosociety.com
Financial Supporters:
The Calgary Foundation
The City of Calgary
Veterans Affairs Canada
Production by: Pan Productions Ltd.
www.panproductions.com 
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That’s my Dad, Bob Bolivar, R.I.P., 2022!
Hats off to these guys at CMS, as a Brit it makes me so proud to think our brothers in Canada are doing this.
Interesting video about the Mosquito but strangely there's no explanation about what the mission was. After a little searching it turns out they were doing high altitude aerial mapping for the government.
Fantastic!😀👌👌
The Dakota was also used for this work , but more for supply work , tough old birds , CTaylor .
amazing stories. thanks for sharing :)
Interesting project.
Great video - amazing seeing the mosquito buzzing the ground at full clip. The Mosquito is part of my childhood - my grandfather bought 200 wings in various states of manufacture at the end of the war. He sold them for parts and used them to make buildings and what not. He made a good profit in the end with them. My brothers have memories of playing teeter-totter with wing sections. I still have part of a landing gear in my office in memory.
francis Rampen - What a clever idea to buy wings! You’ve stirred my imagination; picturing all that you’ve related, especially the teeter-tottering! What brilliant memories for you! Thank you for sharing.
@@doogle-gf3fi I think the story goes that the day of the auction it was raining and my grandfather was the only one who showed up! I think he paid a dollar a piece for each wing and got about 75$ in materials out of them - not a bad return. In the end most were burnt for the brass screws. It was a local landmark in Oakville for many years.
I wonder if anyone has a book about this operation, Id like to read it.
SPARTAN: Seven Letters That Spanned the Globe by Norman Avery. Not a great book. Mostly anecdotal history. New book in progress by Robert Stitt.
Some times anecdotal is all we have, if its backed up with some plausibility, it still has a certain amount believability.
Is soaringtractor/deeremayer ranting here or is it safe?
*I am afeard to report "There is no darkness but ignorance."*
Any idiot who claims "air cools at 2 degrees per thousand feet" has never been on Pike's Peak in July.
www.scientificamerican.com/article/if-heat-rises-why-does-th/
DALR is 3 degrees per thousand feet....Dry Adabatic Lapse Rate...e.g the standard rate of temperature change with altiturde. Moisture and weather systems will always cause the local rate to differ from this baseline