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The Mosquitos Little Sister (De Havilland Hornet)

By late 1942, De Havilland was working on producing a long-range twin-engine fighter that would serve in the Pacific theatre and make the most of the Rolls Royce Merlin engine. It was designated the D.H. 103. The De Havilland D.H. 103 Hornet. The Hornet shares visual similarity to its big brother, the Mosquito, but it’s actually an entirely new design. It’s still made of balsa like the mosquito, it’s still powered by a pair of Rolls Royce Merlins like the mosquito, but it’s significantly smaller and faster. The main offensive armament also differs. Two pairs of 20mm Hispano cannons populate the underside of the nose and no 7.7mm machine guns are present. There’s also no dedicated navigator or internal bomb bay. The Hornet measures 10.8 meters long with a wingspan of 13.7 meters. This makes it almost 3 meters shorter and narrower than the mossie and it’s almost 100km/h faster with a max speed in excess of 760 km/h. The range of the hornet also exceeds the mossies by a couple of hundred km. The Hornet was also more than 1 tonne lighter and with each of the Rolls Royce Merlin engines producing more than 2000 horsepower and driving a four-bladed propeller, the Hornet ended up being one of the best performing piston engine fighters of the decade. There was also a carrier version called the Sea Hornet, which incorporated folding wings, an arrestor hook, and a strengthened rear fuselage. Test pilot Captain Eric Brown had quite a few good things to say about the sea hornet such as quote “The view from the cockpit, positioned right forward in the nose beneath a one-piece aft-sliding canopy was truly magnificent" and “For aerobatics, the Sea Hornet was absolute bliss. The excess of power was such that manoeuvres in the vertical plane can only be described as rocket-like. Even with one engine feathered, the Hornet could loop with the best single-engine fighter, and its aerodynamic cleanliness was such that I delighted in its demonstration by diving with both engines at full bore and feathering both propellers before pulling up into a loop” The Hornet entered production in early 1945 but would not enter service until mid-1946 and by that time, jets were making their way into squadrons and so the Hornet wasn’t produced in large numbers. Production ran from 1945 to 1950 and fewer than 400 De Havilland Hornets were ever built. Even though it arrived too late to fight in the second world war, the Hornet saw combat during the Malayan Emergency in the 1950s. So, ultimately it would seem that the Hornet did eventually fulfill part of its destiny to fight in the Pacific theatre but not in the initially intended decade. All in all, the De Havilland D.H. 103 Hornet entered service just too late and became obsolete just too quickly for it to have as much fame and success as the mosquito. Despite this, it is still a magnificent piece of engineering and aircraft design that deserves to be remembered. This is an Aircraft Spotlight video. They are intended to showcase military vehicles in a short, entertaining manner. More Aircraft Spotlights:    • Aircraft Documentaries