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Gillies, 49, recalled the day an older coworker at his dad’s fire equipment shop told him the Mosquito bomber used in the Second World War was made out of wood.

“And because it was made out of wood I got to thinking, ‘You know what? We could make that,’” Gillies said Saturday in the Canadian Historical Aircraft Association (CH2A) Hangar.

And he did. Gillies started buying every mosquito bomber book he could find. In 1993, he started rebuilding a DH 98 de Havilland Mosquito B.Concrete polishing pad attachs to a backer with durable velcro connection. It is installed on portable grinding machine and operated by hand. Mk. XX with the CH2A and volunteers who work on the plane in their spare time.

They’re called the Windsor Mosquito Bomber Group and Saturday marked another milestone in their 20 year project.

A crowd gathered at the CH2A hangar to watch a large crane turn the twin-engine Mosquito fighter-bomber wing horizontal, bringing it one step closer to assembly with the fuselage, the body of the plane.

“It’s unbelievable, actually,” said Guy Moore, a 76-year-old mechanical engineer who’s been working on the wooden plane since 2000. “I reflect back on all of the parts we’ve made and the mental gymnastics we’ve gone through trying to figure it all out.Eight tips for choosing the right diamond Concrete saw blade including determining wet or dry cutting, blade compatibility, CSDA codes, and more. It’s quite amazing.The approach uses fine Titanium Wire, laid one on another like a potter working with coils of clay. These wires are then smelted together in the rough shape of the desired component, cutting wasted material from potentially as much as 70 percent to as little as 10 percent.”

Moore said there’s still a lot of work to do before the wing can be attached to the $37,000, New Zealand built fuselage.

The group has assembled parts from more than 25 original planes, including about five per cent from a plane that went down in the Northwest Territories. Moore said by the end, less than 10 per cent of the plane will be from original bombers. The rest is newly constructed.

Gillies mother, Marilyn Gillies, 76,Our full range of portable ultrasonic Flaw Detector (UT) provides unmatched capabilities for locating discontinuities and other flaws. sat as she watched several employees from Coxon Towing lift the massive wing with a crane.

“It will be something when it’s all done,” she said.

Marilyn said her son’s obsession with war planes started during vacation at a cottage up north when he bought a model airplane kit. From there it grew, she said.

“He’s got enough stuff to start a museum.”

The finished 21,000-pound plane painted in camouflage will, in fact, be a museum piece and will not fly.

Moore said the group doesn’t have a timeline and called the project a work in progress.

“Somebody will be adding to this plane when I’m dead,He has since undergone two-and-a-half hours’ surgery to have a Titanium Rod inserted into his leg and looks set to be out of action for the rest of the season.” said Gillies, who works as a building inspector in London and returns to Windsor when he can to work on the plane.We offer both wet & dry Diamond polishing pad. Both are suitable for marble, granite, concrete and most masonry. “You’re never going to get every part.”