Classics Monthly

IAIN AYRE PEOPLE'S MOSQUITO

There is a group of dedicated aviation petrolheads committed to funding, restoring and flying what will be the only airworthy example of a De Havilland Mosquito in Europe. The word ‘restoration’ is used flexibly, as most of the aircraft is being made from scratch from a huge cache of 22,800 original drawings. We are actively invited to join in: it will be funded by the British people and flown for the British people.

Is this off topic? I submit to the House that it is not. We like history, we like

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