The People’s Mosquito – World Warbird News https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com The latest in warbirds and historical aviation Wed, 09 Aug 2017 23:14:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WWN-icon-256-150x150.png The People’s Mosquito – World Warbird News https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com 32 32 Over 20,000 Mosquito technical drawings saved from destruction in the UK https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2017/08/11/over-20000-mosquito-technical-drawings-saved-from-destruction/ https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2017/08/11/over-20000-mosquito-technical-drawings-saved-from-destruction/#respond Fri, 11 Aug 2017 09:00:08 +0000 http://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/?p=3358

Continue reading]]> From the Telegraph: “More than 20,000 wartime Mosquito engineering drawings and diagrams have been found in the corner of a wartime factory just days before bulldozers were due to flatten it.

The archive includes what are thought to be the world’s only complete set of engineering drawings for the plane, as well as details of variants that never made it off the drawing board.”

The drawings, on microfilm cards, have been donated to The People’s Mosquito, a charity hoping to restore and fly a crashed Mosquito.

Read the full story on the Telegraph

 

]]> https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2017/08/11/over-20000-mosquito-technical-drawings-saved-from-destruction/feed/ 0