Here is the September 06 report on our work on the Mosquito.

1. We have fabricated a set of drop tank hard point attachment brackets for installation in the wing. The support brackets are attached to the wing ribs and hold the hard points for bolting the drop tanks to the wing, should they ever be needed.

2. The crew entry ladder has been stripped down to its individual components, grit blasted and plated, ready for assembly.

3. A new cable guard plate was fabricated for one of the aileron pulley assemblies, and this pulley has now been assembled with its new guard and bearings.

4. The nose cone has been finally installed with a rubber seal strip contained in the attachment area. The gun camera mount has also been fitted inside the nose cone.

5. The crew door bump stops and latching blocks have been finish painted and glued and screwed in place on the fuselage. New rubber blocks were also made and glued and screwed onto the landings to finish the installation. Some of the crew door seal retaining strips were painted and fitted and the door striker plates have been polished and fitted.

6. The rubber ‘P’ seal has been fitted around the Browning gun doors. The alloy edging closing strips have been fabricated for the doors and new washer plates have been made that attach the hinges and locking mechanism.

7. The landing gear retract cylinder mounting cross tubes have been grit blasted, crack tested and painted ready to be installed in the wing.

8. The 20mm canon bay panel has been disassembled and evaluated for repair.

Woodwork

There has been steady progress on the wing components with work now fully completed on all the ribs and associated templates. The ribs all need a template fabricated that confirms the outer profile and allows the ribs to be adjusted to the correct shape after installation in the wing, and these are all complete now. Work has now started on the tank bay panels.

The front spar is now fully complete with the final job of fitting the ash doublers to the web, all done.

The rear spar is making steady progress with the boom spindle moulding completed, the booms were them assembled on the main assembly jig which is configured for spar construction. The rear web ply has been scarfed and formed over the jig and the booms have now been glued and screwed to the rear web sheeting. The spar has been removed from the jig and the next step is to complete the front web sheeting and fit it to the spar.

The ash doublers for the rear spar have been laminated on the jig and can now be trimmed ready to fit to the spar after the web ply is fitted.