I don't think the mosquito would have survived the raids over Germany. The
flak would have ripped them apart. It was hard on the B17's, but they took
massive damage and still brought their crews home.
Bobby Joe Pendleton II
MVPA#17657
----- Original Message -----
From: "Renaud OLGIATI" <rolgiati@bigfoot.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Monday, 07 May, 2001 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: [MV] Mosquito vs. B-17G
> On Monday 07 May 2001 02:17, I was honoured by a missive from
> GIjeepsWW2@aol.com that said :
>
> > Mosquito was a great little plane but it was still a little plane.
> > Big planes do big plane jobs, little planes do little plane jobs.
>
> Given that the Mossie carried about the same load, with a crew of only
two,
> what is it then that you call a "big plane job" ?
>
> Doing the "small plane job" with more crew, losses, fuel and building
> expenses ?
>
> Looks wasteful to me.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ron the Frog, on the banks of the Paraguay River.
> --
> To the optimist, the glass is half full.
> To the pessimist, the glass is half empty.
> To the engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.
> --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
>
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