This project began in positive fashion, was blunted for some time by a tragic turn of fate, and finally brought to maturity. My initial attention had been concentrated on the Mosquito Air Museum which possesses not only a late model 'Mossie' B Mk 35. but also W4050 — the original prototype for De Havilland's superb "Wooden Wonder'. Access to the T Mk III (with which to illustrate the fighter version of the Mosquito) operated in flying condition by British Aerospace had been provisionally agreed upon when the aircraft and its two-man crew were lost in an airshow accident. Fortunately an alternative source subsequently came to light with a visit to the Yorkshire Air Museum where Tony Agar's Mosquito had been patiently constructed (literally from nothing) over many years. Although only a portion of the overall airframe is vintage NF Mk II. the aircraft provided sufficient detail to outline the De Havilland design as intended to operate in a fighter-bomber role.

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