The Mosquito Pocket Manual

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Contents Introduction Significant Mosquito Variants I Design and trials Specification P.13/36 Design briefing letters to Air Ministry, 20 September 1939 Operational Requirements for High-Speed Light Reconnaissance Aeroplane – Draft for De Havilland Specification 2/40/D.H. Mosquito W.4050 Preliminary Performance and Brief Handling Trials Tactical Trials – Mosquito Bomber II Pilot Notes Aircraft Introduction and Controls and Equipment for Pilots III Tactical/Operations Some Aspects of Operating Mosquito Night Bombers Note on the Employment of Mosquito Aircraft in the Strategic Bomber Offensive Memorandum on Mosquito Aircraft for Pathfinding Aircraft and Armament Experimental Establishment, Boscombe Down, Sea Mosquito (Brief Handling Trials) 105 Squadron Operations Record Book 16–28 September 1942 Mosquito Intruder Squadron for Malta Account of the Amiens Prison Operation 105 Squadron Operations Record Book 1 April–9 June 1944 Index Acknowledgements Introduction ‘The Mosquito represents all that is finest in aeronautical design’ Wing Commander John de Lacy Wooldridge, Commanding Officer, 105 Squadron ‘It had awesome power on the leash in those huge engines and was eager on its…