Re: So let me get this right....
Although inclined to agree I also think to be fair, planes were much simpler then, and if you read accounts of people trying to fly these planes now they are supposed to be a bitch to fly, not just mossies but the single engine fighters, torque steer and such could apparently flip you trying to take off.
There was a written account of someone trying to fly a ME109 someone offered a go on at a meet, experienced pilot years of experience as a crop duster and in various aircraft, whole family history of flying commercially, didn't even get it down the runway to take off before he realised it was better to power down, live and not trash someone's million dollar plane.
Mosquito was still a shit hot plane though.