But am I wrong? ;)

As a side note, there is an airworthy De Havilland Mosquito that's been rebuilt and currently flying at the Military Aviation Museum in Virginia Beach, VA. It's one of only two currently known Mosquitoes that are still flying as far as I know, Canada's got the other one.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Aviation_Museum

One of my first trips when I move to Virginia Beach is to check that place out: My company is moving its US HQ to there at the end of September.

In my opinion, the Mosquito has to be about the sexiest looking WWII era aircraft in existence. Shame there's not more of them still flying.

Well, part of the problem, ironically, would appear to be in the wooden airframe construction, which was utilized by the Brits due to steel shortages, and was in itself a genius feat of engineering.

As far as long-term storage is concerned, steel-framed planes are fairly forgiving as long as they're sheltered from most of the elements. Something with a wooden frame tends to require more delicate maintenance as time goes on along with better shelter, one reason there's very few surviving WW1 biplanes and triplanes today. :(

Let me know when you arrive and I'll show you around. :)

That museum continues to grow as they add more stuff. They even had an airworthy B-17 at one point, but it got sold off to pay some bills. :( They do have a rebuilt ME-262 jet fighter along with a V-1 buzz bomb that still has a working engine, that's always a hoot to watch.

How do they get the pulse-jet to work without actually launching the thing?

You can see a demonstration here. This is at the "Warbirds over the Beach" event they hold each year in May. They have a LOT of reenactors that regularly show up for this representing the various Axis and Allies of WWII, along with sit-downs with a lot of veterans that show up at this too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cE594pwumIM

I would like to see how they started it- without a compressor stage the V1 needed the launch rail, and an initial impetus, to get enough airflow through it to develop thrust.
Interesting that the crowd cheer when it stops. My dad heard a few of them, but only heard one stop. No one cheered...

Considering the quality of Laser-cut kits nowadays, d'ya think they'd make a 1:1 scale model?
Of course, shipping'd be a beyotch.

"4. Licensed attorneys authorized to practice law in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.


Perhaps in T2K, the Lawyer company can be ordered to charge a machine gun nest armed with subpoenas... :-)"

Hence the term "boilerplate"....:cool:

We'll need to get it on tape. Survivors of the war will want some entertainment.