1/72 Scratch-built Gurney-Grice Mosquito

From the archive (2008):

If Mini Me would have a plane, what would it be?

So here it is, the world famous Gurney-Grice Mosquito, a.k.a. The Flying Coffin.

I was acquainted with this plane thanks to Richard Hopkinson at the Wings of Peace forum, who dared to call it “ugly”, mind you.

He stated –and I am quoting him:

"...It does have two outstanding advantages over most aircraft:

1. It is the box it came in.

2. After flight the pilot can be interred directly after simply

removing the wings, engine & undercarriage.

Economical & practical!”

There is only one photo that I know about published on Aeroplane Monthly, a 2003 issue about the ugliest 100 planes. Unfortunately, due to copyright issues and the current state of the hobby where Big Companies want the kit manufacturers to pay for using the names of the planes, I am afraid somebody may sue for making an article that may produce some laughs and eventually even make somebody happy for a few minutes.

The Mosquito achieved control by changing the angle of incidence of the fore wing and by tilting the aft wing –anchored at fore and aft central struts -side to side. It is generally though that the word “control” here is an overstatement.

I had to sketch my own 3 view of course.

Anyway, the usual recipe: styrene here, styrene there, hocus pocus, Aeroclub Models wheels –the tail one is scratched, but I got tired quickly-, brass “Strutz”, some wire lengths,

For the ones with small shelves/budgets.