Rowland White For a great insight into the light bomber force pre-Mosquito, I cannot recommend this book highly enough, especially as a major character is Sgt(later Sqn Ldr) Jack Onions, my neighbour when I was young. Free to download.
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In the late 30`s the German success at high speed record attempts was getting a bit embarrassing for the RAF, who had been used to success sending their pilots to fly the Schneider Trophy racers until 1931 when the trophy was Britain`s permanently.

A hotted up Spitfire called…

Thanks so much Ralph The Retriever I’m thrilled to hear liked it and I really appreciate it you sharing it with John Nichol ✈ 🤣

Rowland White

After the Miles M.52 supersonic research jet was cancelled in 1946 (leaving Chuck Yeager and the Bell X-1 an open goal) the design was proven using a radio controlled rocket powered 30% scale model dropped from a Mosquito. The model achieved Mach 1.38 in 1948 …
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Shoulda shared this a few weeks ago alongside the anniversary but punctuality’s never been a superpower …

Here’s some news. While you hold your breath for Stones’ Hackney Diamonds to drop my books have just appeared on Spotify and if you have a premium subscription you can listen to 15 hours of audiobook every month at no extra cost! Hoping MOSQUITO will join them next week …

RAF Wittering was extended west by Basil Embry in 3 wks after he gave the tenant farmer a bottle of whisky & bought all his potatoes, used steam engines to remove 1500 trees & grade the surface, + £300 of grass seed & 3 miles of cable.Fighter Command HQ said it would take 9 mths!

And immediately I’m thinking of the Fairey Barracuda. There’s really no hope is there …

Seriously, this 👇 👇 👇

To all new followers, and indeed old, given the stupefying interest in my last tweet about Bomber command, there were a lot of questions about the Mosquito and if it could have been re-applied to secure a better solution to taking out Germany from the air than heavy bombers.…

FB.6 nights to go until MOSQUITO is published!
Click here for pre-orders and signed copies: linktr.ee/dehavillandmos…
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Congrats Scottie. It’s a cracker too.

Done. I’ve finished writing my first book, ‘Hercules’. It’s been fantastic to collaborate with so many friends, crews, and ‘customers’ across almost 6 decades, giving a great spread of the missions, fun, and of course, sadly, a few tragedies. Coming out May ‘24. #excited

The Danish War Museum is brilliant. Amazing exhibit on Danish involvement in Afghanistan that was put together by the museum and personnel who served there. Really powerful way to tell recent history.

That time RAE tried fitting a pair of air-to-air missiles to a Mosquito …

In other ice cream news, Timber Control, set up the day after WWII broke out, controlled all British wood needs. They sent an explorer to Panama to find balsa and set up a saw mill there (pictured) to build Mosquitos. And said no to the ice cream trade who wanted wooden spoons …

Never know what you’ll find when you on start on a book, but MOSQUITO revealed crucial ice cream info. Häagen-Dazs once had a Danish map on the lid. The name meant nothing. It was invented by the brand’s US founders to honour the remarkable escape of Denmark’s Jews from the Nazis