Spanish Mosquito

[GBJim]

I stumbled across this Mosquito today, and as the story goes ; The Spanish Squadron Commander used it to haul lobsters from Villa Cisneros, back to his base occasionally. Undoubtedly, a few extra peso's were to be made. :)

 

Give me your honest opinion of what you think about this bird, I think that the texture is a little weak, but what do I know ? And if you know of a nicer one, please let me know about it. And also, notice that the Mosquito hops and the tires screech while rolling out. Watch it as it turns into the taxiway. What causes this my friends ? ? ?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Short maiden flight video >>>>

 

 

 

Edited November 27, 2018 by GBJim

[Downwind66]

Jim - Watch the video again, and to me it looks like when you are making the left turn on to the taxiway, you are helping it, by kicking in the left brake.

The tail wheel is definitely coming off the asphalt and when it comes down, that's when you get the chirp, and notice the smoke from the left main tire and the tail wheel tire! I don't see the hop on rollout?

 

Nice looking plane! Rick :cool:

[GBJim]

Rick, I wish that it was that simple, but it's not. I've had this happen with other planes also, even when fully stopped, and have even seen it happen with a float plane off of water. I'm surprised that you have never encountered it ? Regardless, it's no big problem for me. I'll make a short video of it hopping while it's stopped. Stay tuned.

 

Jim

[Downwind66]

Okeeeee Dokeeeee! I am sure there a lot of things I haven't seen yet. I looked for what you were describing, that was all I noticed! :rolleyes:

 

Rick :cool:

[GBJim]

Okeeeee Dokeeeee! I am sure there a lot of things I haven't seen yet. I looked for what you were describing, that was all I noticed! :rolleyes:

 

Rick :cool:

 

 

Rick, forget about it . I flew it again, and as hard as I tried, I could not make it happen ! It must have been just a phenomena, a set of circumstances that just happened, the phase of the moon, a Steam malfunction, or something ? ? ? Y'all forget about it. But if it ever starts up again, I'll tape it. :)

 

 

Adios

[Downwind66]

Jim - You forgot Karma!! Glad to hear it is okay now!

 

Rick

[Downwind66]

Jim - And you thought you had problems with a hop and a screech? I went out looking for another Mosquito, just to have something as a comparison to your Mosquito and the problem. I guess this was a wrong choice! LOL!

 

 

Rick

[mrzippy]

I found one several years ago that only has a VC and it seems to taxi fairly nicely.

 

 

[Downwind66]

Yep, I pulled her out of the asphalt, threw some touch-up paint on her and all seemed well?

 

 

Well, let's see what she does on landing?

 

 

Looks good at a glance, but check out the tires on the main gear. Nice wheel landing, no hops or screech's here Jim! LOL! This one has been sent on a permanent vacation, right to File 13! Enjoy yours, Jim, you could have done a lot worse!

 

Rick :cool:

[arnakkian]

Looks good at a glance, but check out the tires on the main gear.

 

Rick, I'm sure if you call up the local FBO a line guy will come out and air up those tires for you with minimal difficulty. Just sayin'. ;)

[flightsimg]

Hi! my little pupil

Sure if you look on that site or even type 'mosquito FSX' in a search engine, you will find a variety of choice

On the other hand, the one you found might be a post WWII one. In that case, your mentor is not much up to that :):)

[peer01]

Jim, not a bad Mosquito at all!! :cool::cool::cool: Who's model is it?

[Downwind66]

Rick, I'm sure if you call up the local FBO a line guy will come out and air up those tires for you with minimal difficulty. Just sayin'. ;)

 

It will take a lot more than air to cure this bird! BUT, not my problem no more!

 

Rick :cool:

[GBJim]

Jim, not a bad Mosquito at all!! :cool::cool::cool: Who's model is it?

 

Jan, it's the de Havilland Mosquito B.MkIV for FSX/P3D

 

Model and textures by: Dave Garwood & Derek Palmer

Merlin Sounds by Gary Jones.

 

The one that I am using flies great, but I'd like to find a camo livery like Mr. Zippy is using, possibly with a little better detail and texturing. Maybe Charlie will come back and tell us where he found his ?

 

 

 

 

Edited November 27, 2018 by GBJim

[mrzippy]

It's from CBFS. Mosquito B.IV I saw a couple of downloads from Flyawaysimulations. Just checking the File Library and found 2 pages of repaints for the Dave Garwood BIV Mosquito. Just type in Dave Garwood Mosquito in the file search. Edited November 27, 2018 by mrzippy

[jankees]

never knew the Spanish had mossies as well, nice!

If it is the model by Dave Garwood, I did a few paints for that as well, including these:

ss12490

 

ss3419

[GBJim]

Yes Jan, thank you very much, mine is by Dave Garwood also. Your British Camo version is beautiful. Now if I only knew how to paint ? ? ?

Maybe my Guru's will teach me ? ? ?

 

I flew the Spaniard again today and it flies very well. Here's a few more pics. >>>>

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And another video. >>>>

 

 

Edited November 27, 2018 by GBJim

[peer01]

http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/local_links.php?catid=227&sort=d&page=17&pp=20 Here's one of JK's repaints, please scroll down and you'll find 2 more of them. And on the next pages there you'll find a lot more Edited November 27, 2018 by peer01

[flightsimg]

Hey, my faithfull pupil! :), if you hold to that model, just type the model name, or the creator's name, etc. on a zip vault, or direct on a search engine as that should answer with some textures for that model

If not… well… you… should … have… either to fly with those textures, or… … to… ... change the base plane unluckily :)

[kalizzi]

I stumbled across this Mosquito today, and as the story goes ; The Spanish Squadron Commander used it to haul lobsters from Villa Cisneros, back to his base occasionally. Undoubtedly, a few extra peso's were to be made. :)

 

Give me your honest opinion of what you think about this bird, I think that the texture is a little weak, but what do I know ? And if you know of a nicer one, please let me know about it. And also, notice that the Mosquito hops and the tires screech while rolling out. Watch it as it turns into the taxiway. What causes this my friends ? ? ?

 

 

Lovely shots Jim, and a great video too! never knew this baby served under Spanish colours! Although I would have thought it would have the traditional "X" markings of the Spanish air force? By the way its pesetas for Spain (till 2002 when it became Euros) and not pesos! Best wishes.

 

Khalid

[GBJim]

Thanks Jan, for helping me to get it done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jim

 

Edited November 28, 2018 by GBJim

[Downwind66]

Yes, Jim, I do like the Camo much more! Really nice. Did you just do the repaint or get an entirely new aircraft download?

 

Rick :cool:

[atcramon]

After a crash landing in Ontario. Was a private plane,

The spanish owner was a former Spanish Air Army, already retired when he bought the plane.

[peer01]

Rick, if you have the Model, you only have to install the repaints, there are 2 American repaints also.:)

[Downwind66]

No Jan, I was just curious about what Jim did as he was having some intermittent issues last evening with his original download. No, I have had it with the Mosquito downloads. The icing on the cake this morning, from the time I hit the "Fly Now" button, the nose took a dive straight down into the asphalt as you can see in the earlier pic. Contact points were all messed up, I got that somewhat straightened out only to have the tires sink into the runway during a wheel landing. No, I'll pass on the DeHavilland Mosquito's. Jim's got him a nice looking aircraft now! Rick :cool: