The Mosquito Manual by Great Britain, John Tanner (1977, Book, Illustrated)

A fabulous little book. Great illustrations, looks at aspects of the ground crew as well as the flight crew’s equipment and responsibilities in text and drawings, all very period, all very ‘British’ .

It really brings into perspective, not only were their flight crews risking life and limb, and ground crews with spanners clenched in hands with grease covered scraped knuckles, there were men and women bent over typewriters and drafting boards who were fighting the war in this way, generating the instructions to keep a Mosquito flying.

It would have been interesting if there had been a similar volume for the bomber and reconnaissance versions, just to compare.

Great book for the modeler, the historian, or the airplane nut. Or a mechanic, or anyone who wonders just how things work, or how to keep them working. It answers questions I never thought to even dream of, for any aircraft, let alone some of the specialty issues that the “Wooden Wonder” had going for it.

Now all I need to do is find a dissembled Mosquito, somewhere, even has information on reassembly , and rigging from the shipping crates.( as well as the size of the various disassembled sub assemblies) and the sequence to atach what, when and where.

I could put it together part of the way in the garage, but I will need a “forked towing arm Z98264“, to 'back it out properly' according to Vol 1 section 4 chapter 2 Towing item 2(iii).

Lets see if you can find one of THOSE on E-bay….

Great little book. Buy it early, buy it often.
Read it again and again.
If the rest of the book in this series are this fascinating, definely have to make room on my bookshelves.