Mosquito PR (COMPLETED)
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Andrea MorrisAs usual work starts with the cockpit and so it's time to wave the "hairy stick" about!
Andrea MorrisTKS Cliff. Typical Airfix, miss-numbered instructions ect. I just fancied something without a camo scheme & I haven't done invasion stripes before.
Andrea MorrisTKS guys. So, here she is all done 🙂 I am not impressed with the Montex masks for the canopy, they are to thick & peel back all to easily so letting in a lot of paint 🙁 But all in all she doesn't look to bad?
Andrea MorrisTKS Cliff, I am in the process of replacing the canopy as that just let the whole thing down but I just love that (Humbrol) PRU blue colour 🙂
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Britain began the Second World War dangerously short of capable reconnaissance aircraft. The Supermarine Spitfire had solved part of the problem, providing an aircraft with the performance to take photographs over defended areas, but it did not have the range to make an ideal PR aircraft.
The de Havilland Mosquito, originally developed as a high speed unarmed bomber, would provide the answer. It had the speed and the range needed in a photo reconnaissance aircraft, and the space to carry a wide range of camera installations.
The Mosquito PR Mk I was the first version of the aircraft to enter active service. In July 1941 the prototype aircraft joined No. 1 PRU (Photographic Reconnaissance Unit), flying its first mission on 17 September 1942 over Brest and Bordeaux. Eventually the unit would receive ten PR Mk Is as well as a number of conversions of NF Mk IIs and B Mk IVs.
The arrival of the Mosquito gave the PRU an aircraft with which it could reach across Europe. Missions to Norway began in October 1941, t
