De Havilland Mosquito
de Havilland Mosquito DH.98 adalah pesawat tempur multi-peran Inggris dengan dua orang kru yang bertugas selama Perang Dunia II dan era pasca perang. Mosquito adalah salah satu dari beberapa pesawat operasional garis depan dari era Perang Dunia II yang akan dibangun hampir seluruhnya dari kayu dan, dengan demikian, dijuluki "The Wooden Ajaib". Mosquito juga dikenal sayang sebagai "Mossie" untuk kru nya.
Pada saat Perang Dunia II, perewat bomber punya perlengkapan pertahanan, kerena itu lembat pada pesawat fighter dan berat. Perancang Mosquito menyadari mungkin untuk dirancang pesawat bomber yang cepat sekalit jika tanpa perlengkapan pertahanan. Kerena itu, Mosquito cepat seperti pesawat fighter. Mosquito disesuaikan dengan banyak peran lain selama perang udara, termasuk rendah sampai menengah ketinggian bomber siang taktis, bomber tinggi ketinggian malam, pathfinder, fighter siang atau malam, fighter-bomber, penyusup, pesawat maritim, dan pesawat foto-pengintai cepat.
Ketika Mosquito memasuki produksi pada tahun 1941, itu adalah salah satu pesawat operasional tercepat di dunia.
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Referensi
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- Manual: (1950) AP 2019E-P.N. Pilot's Notes Mosquito FB6
- The Mosquito Page at Mossie.org
- de Havilland Aircraft Heritage Centre aka Mosquito Aircraft Museum
- Calgary Mosquito Aircraft Preservation Association
- Victoria Air Maintenance Ltd. Restoring a Mosquito to flying condition
- de Havilland Mosquito magazine articles and publications Diarsipkan 2013-01-05 di Archive.is
- Data at Warbirdregistry.org
- Mosquito restoration project New Zealand (633 Squadron theme) Retrieved: 3 January 2012.
- Wartime film of the construction of the Mosquito in Australia Retrieved: 3 January 2012.
- "Flying Plywood With A Sting": Popular Science article, December 1943
- U-Tube footage of Coastal Command Mosquito XVIIIs Retrieved: 3 January 2012.
- A close-up picture of the nose of a Tsetse Mosquito FB Mk XVIII showing the Molins 57 mm gun muzzle
- A photograph of the Tsetse Mosquito FB Mk XVIII NT225
- "Mosquito Wars on U-Boats With 6-pound Shells.": Popular Mechanics article, February 1945, p. 39.
- Mosquito Pathfinders, Pathfinder Museum Diarsipkan 2008-05-28 di Wayback Machine.
- 627 Squadron RAF Mosquito Pathfinders Based at RAF Woodall Spa Diarsipkan 2011-08-07 di Wayback Machine.
- Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) report on the crash of FB.VI G-ASKH, 1996
- IWM Image of Mosquito PR34 RG241, which holds the twin piston-engine Atlantic crossing record.
- "America Reports On Aid To Allies etc. (1942)." Universal Newsreel.
- "Mosquito Makes Base" a 1943 Flight article on a Mosquito Intruder's battle damage
- "'Pin-Point' Attack On One House by Mosquitoes" a 1944 Flight advertisement
- "The Magnificent Mosquito" a 1969 Flight article by Air Comodr. Allen Wheeler