It's a WWII podcast done by a comedian Al Murray (who also has a huge interest in history) and a prominent historian. Some really great stories from a Mosquito Navigator.
Not mentioned in the podcast but there's also a book "down in the drink" which is published by the Goldfish Club (https://www.thegoldfishclub.co.uk) - the club for air crew who have survived a water landing and has been going since the 1940s.
In there there is an excellent story of a Mossie crew who survived a water landing. It tells the tale of the one thing many crew brought up when being shown the Mosquito and that is the main fuel transfer box is exposed when the bomb bay is open. So incredibly vulnerable when over target.
De Havilland apparently dismissed this as "most the time it'll be covered by the heavily armoured doors" but there are several incidents of aircraft that were lost due to taking damage when the bomb doors were open, likely they could have been saved if this transfer box was in a more traditionally armoured position.
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Updated 4/21 - Fixed MP Sound issue and tweaked FDM.
VooDoo
For anyone who has an interest in the Mosquito there's a couple of great hours of listening here (and part 2)
https://play.acast.com/s/wehaveways/the-mosquito-story-part-1
It's a WWII podcast done by a comedian Al Murray (who also has a huge interest in history) and a prominent historian. Some really great stories from a Mosquito Navigator.
Not mentioned in the podcast but there's also a book "down in the drink" which is published by the Goldfish Club (https://www.thegoldfishclub.co.uk) - the club for air crew who have survived a water landing and has been going since the 1940s.
In there there is an excellent story of a Mossie crew who survived a water landing. It tells the tale of the one thing many crew brought up when being shown the Mosquito and that is the main fuel transfer box is exposed when the bomb bay is open. So incredibly vulnerable when over target.
De Havilland apparently dismissed this as "most the time it'll be covered by the heavily armoured doors" but there are several incidents of aircraft that were lost due to taking damage when the bomb doors were open, likely they could have been saved if this transfer box was in a more traditionally armoured position.