Oboe bombing with limited numbers of Mosquito was a different matter.Īnd 'Operation Jericho' losses were two out of eighteen (11%) a loss rate that would have been a disaster for the main force! Mosquito attacks on Berlin were ‘nuisance’ raids (although the Germans didn’t think them so), area-bombing a big sprawling city with no intention or hope of causing significant damage to industry the aim was to sound the sirens and get the population to spend another uncomfortable night (forty to fifty nights in a row at one point) in the shelters. Precision attacks in daylight are one thing, using the mosquito at night is quite another. I think we have to be careful turning the ‘wooden wonder’ into a wonder weapon! Or as someone has suggested, would Mossie losses have climbed to match the main force.? If you had access to a fast, pinpoint strike aircraft that could even knock down targets like prison walls - why continue throwing hundreds of heavies night after night if Mossies could have accomplised the job? I doubt I could have built a Spitfire in my barn in New York. My Falco also used the same "cutting-edge moulding and bonding techniques" that were used on the Mosquito, mainly substantial scarfing of wood panels and steam bending of same.
I built a very high-performance airplane-a Falco F8L-of wood, and in fact I used the very same glue that was used in the Mosquito: Resorcinol. There's always the suggestion that the Mossie was made of wood and so would have been easy to build, but the truth is that it was a complex beastie that used all sorts of cutting edge moulding and bonding techniques. The Spitfire was a very difficult aircraft to build and they managed to turn out 20K plus of those.Īlthough the Mossie was made of wood, it wasn't exactly your standard wooden aircraft. I doubt the skill to make them would be an issue considering that aircraft right up until 1939 were nearly all made of wood.
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