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Thanks, Snippy, you are a sweetie.

Mr. Gage, I admire your erudition about period aircraft, and hope you might be willing to do a Mosquito piece.

I saw Kermit Weeks' Mosquito up at Oshkosh once, when the machine needed work and was parked outside during the fly in. Very compact and British. Going to have to get a real look at it someday, am interested in how the engine mounts transition to the (spruce) composite structure. Landing gear mounts look to be part of the same structure. Have seen good photos of all the parts easy to understand, where the mind's eye needs no photos, but never a one where they would be really useful!!

When the Canadians put the Mosquito into production they couldn't figure out how to spin the fuselage nose cone, something like a 1000 series aluminum, maybe. They asked Detroit for help. Detroit said they couldn't. I have wanted to try building one myself since I read that story! Bet you there are some interesting annealing steps!