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Could a tailhook be added to the mosquito, so it can be used as a Sea Mosquito on carriers?


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Nothing fancy-- please just add a tailhook and we can do the rest landing by eye on carriers for fun! 🙂

 

In real life 50 Sea Mosquitos were built and deployed in the Pacific, but the war ended before they could get into the fight.  But I love the idea we could come up with our own mosquito battles using the carriers in DCS.

 

https://airscapemag.com/2015/07/26/secrets-of-the-sea-mosquito/

 

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Would be a fun idea - and another good reason for a Royal Navy Illustrious class carrier…

 

But wasn’t the Sea Mosquito quite a different bird? (thimble nose, hook, folding wings)

(BTW your link is great)

 

If ED were to consider multiple variants there are plenty of others I’d like to see (as well👍) - B.IV, B.IX, PR.IX, FB.XVIII and possibly some of the NF variants

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14 hours ago, rkk01 said:

Would be a fun idea - and another good reason for a Royal Navy Illustrious class carrier…

 

But wasn’t the Sea Mosquito quite a different bird? (thimble nose, hook, folding wings)

(BTW your link is great)

 

If ED were to consider multiple variants there are plenty of others I’d like to see (as well👍) - B.IV, B.IX, PR.IX, FB.XVIII and possibly some of the NF variants

 

I think realistically it would be too much to ask for ED to make a completely accurate final version of the Sea Mosquito, so that is why now I only ask for a tail hook option added to the existing model.  Otherwise we would not get anything lol;)

 

For RP, we could pretend it was one of the first test Mosquitos they slapped a tail hook on to see if a carrier landing was possible at all.  But really I just want to have the option to create missions using carriers in DCS, and this would probably be the only practical way to get it (other than an unofficial mod).

 

The first test versions of the Sea Mosquito were more like a regular mosquito with a tail hook added.  The final version of the Sea Mosquito (which I am not asking for) has changes to the nose shape, and 4 bladed props, and folding wings for carrier deck parking (which looks really awesome btw!:)

 

 

 

 

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