Mosquitos bad this year ?

[openspaceman]

5 hours ago, Timbermcpherson said:

I read there were issues with them being used in the humidity of asia, the glues just didnt hold up, not sure if it was insect related

Talk about thread drift.

 

Anyway your post made me search again and quickly came up with this:

 

"The Far East was where the Mosquito suffered its most difficult losses – not due to the enemy, but to the degradation of the early version of their glued wooden joints (using casein glue in an unsuitable climate) leading to structural failure – sometimes in the air. Early production aircraft which were in India and Burma were condemned on inspection, but later examples in which formaldehyde-based glue rather than the milk-protein based casein were used, were passed as fit to fly."

 

The Wooden Wonder – The Mosquito

WWW.TRIUMPHWORKS.CO.UK

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After its first flight on the 25th November, 1940, the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was immediately adopted as a...

 

Which is much what my father said, though I had wrongly ascribed the glue failure to bugs or fungi rather than heat and moisture. He fitted radar to them in 44-45, he had not realised that the tide of war had gone in allied favour when he was sent out, he didn't get back till 46.

Edited November 19, 2020 by openspaceman
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[Stubby]

4 hours ago, openspaceman said:

Talk about thread drift.

 

Anyway your post made me search again and quickly came up with this:

 

"The Far East was where the Mosquito suffered its most difficult losses – not due to the enemy, but to the degradation of the early version of their glued wooden joints (using casein glue in an unsuitable climate) leading to structural failure – sometimes in the air. Early production aircraft which were in India and Burma were condemned on inspection, but later examples in which formaldehyde-based glue rather than the milk-protein based casein were used, were passed as fit to fly."

 

The Wooden Wonder – The Mosquito

WWW.TRIUMPHWORKS.CO.UK

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After its first flight on the 25th November, 1940, the de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito was immediately adopted as a...

 

Which is much what my father said, though I had wrongly ascribed the glue failure to bugs or fungi rather than heat and moisture. He fitted radar to them in 44-45, he had not realised that the tide of war had gone in allied favour when he was sent out, he didn't get back till 46.

Drifting a little more , I think there is one or more still with some flying hours left on it as one appears on occasion here at Goodwood aerodrome to accompany the Spitfires and the Mustang  when there is a display .