BOAC Mosquito

BOAC Mosquito G-AGGC, the plane that changed the outcome of the war?

BOAC Mosquito FB Mk VI G-AGGC - dowload skin here

The final psd-file with all layers etc is also available here if you want to continue my work. It also contains standard RAF roundels on separate layers.

This is one of the "secret" semi civilian Mosquito FB Mk VI:s that was run by BOAC to fly ball bearings, VIP's, couriers and pilots that had landed in Sweden (or managed to escape there) between Scotland and Sweden from 1943 until the end of the war. They where unfortunately unarmed which makes the IL2 flyable FBVI type slightly incorrect as they should be a bit lighter... The skin is based on the original template by Prangster and this page was used as a paint scheme reference:

http://home.online.no/~vingtor/Mosquito/Mosquito-feature.html

Info from that site about this plane:

"de Havilland Mosquito FB Mk.VI HJ680, G-AGGC, BOAC based ib Leuchars, Scotland 1944. Camouflage colours are Extra Dark Sea Grey and Dark Slate Grey over Night. Registration letters are believed to be Ocean Grey on upper surfaces and fuselage and Light Slate Grey on the lower surfaces."

Here are two images from that site of G-AGGC and it's sister G-AGGF (included in the zip too if the site disappears)

As I did the camo pattern that is non-standard myself I included two skins witout BOAC markings to use as a generic night fighter version.

G-AGGC was the plane that took the famous Danish physicist Niels Bohr from Sweden to England on the 6:th of October 1943. From England he then continued to USA and joined the Manhattan projekt that developed the atomic bomb that ended the war. Therefore one may say that this could be the plane that changed the outcome of the war... Had it failed - would Oppenheimer have solved the problem of developing the atomic bomb in time without Bohr's input? The story from Wikipedia below:

"He [Bohr] was evacuated from Stockholm in 1943 in an unarmed De Havilland Mosquito operated by British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC). Passengers on BOAC's Mosquitos were carried in an improvised cabin in the bomb bay. The flight almost ended in tragedy as Bohr did not don his oxygen equipment as instructed and passed out at high altitude. He would have died had not the pilot surmising from Bohr's lack of response to intercom communication that he had lost consciousness, descended to a lower altitude for the remainder of the flight. Bohr's comment was that he had slept like a baby for the entire flight."

Here's another interesting episode about this particular plane:

"On the 18:th of July 1943, Mosquito G-AGGC after leaving the Swedish coast at 7.600 meters noticed condensation trails – one above and one behind the a/c, presumed to be from Focke-Wulf 190s. Rae, The pilot turned into the fighters and then dived in a spiral down to the sea level, levelled out and gave full throttle. Indicated airspeed was 570 Km/h and the course set for Leuchars. In the full moon the attacking fighters had no problem seeing the Mossie and the chase was on for half an hour without the attackers gaining on the Mosquito. The Germans gave up, probably beacause of fuel shortage. BOAC's instruction was that if an aircraft was attacked over the eastern part of Skagerak, the pilot was to turn back because of the risk of fuel starvation if entangled in a long chase. However, this time Gilbert Rae decided to continue the flight because he had a Danish officer on board who had just escaped the Gestapo."

I would also like to thank "F19Gladiator" for additional information (like the story above).