Mosquito: Unseen Images from the Archives
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (668 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0993181228 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 144 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-06-02 |
| Language | : | English |
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Colin Higgs has been a documentarian for more than 20 years, for both TV and home entertainment.
About the AuthorColin Higgs has been a documentarian for more than 20 years, for both TV and home entertainment.
A celebratory book and two documentaries about the famous aircraft In the age of metal fuselages and wings how could an aircraft largely built of wood possibly become one of the most famous British aircraft ever and arguably the best military aircraft of World War II? The Mosquito was built by de Havilland which had already created classics such as the Tiger Moth and Dragon Rapide. Accompanying this ground-breaking book are two documentaries: De Havilland presents the Mosquito, and early film telling the aircraft's history and Gaining Altitude, the story of the rebuilding of a Mosquito to airworthy condition in Canada.. Almost 8,000 Mosquitos were built and they were flown by almost every country's pilots fighting with the allies including Americans, Canadians, Australians, and South Africans.The publishers of Mosquito: Unseen Images from the Archives have scoured the archives to come up with an unrivaled selection of rare and unseen images showing the full history of the Mosquito from its inception before the war through its hugely successful wartime career to