Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/De Havilland Mosquito

De Havilland Mosquito

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Original – The de Havilland Mosquito, also known as the "Wooden Wonder", was a wood-framed multi-role aircraft introduced by the British during World War II. It was one of the fastest operational aircraft at the time.

Reason

Excellent image of a remarkable aircraft; fantastic quality for 1942/1943

Articles in which this image appears

de Havilland Mosquito

FP category for this image

Wikipedia:Featured pictures/Vehicles/Air

Creator

Fotoafdrukken Koninklijke Luchtmacht; restored by  — Chris Woodrich (talk)

• Support as nominator –  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 12:37, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Bammesk (talk) 13:26, 1 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support A few bright specks upper left, but nothing above filmgrain size. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 21:54, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

• I'll have a looksie in a bit. Doing a bit of writing - finally got some inspiration  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:30, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

• Alright, I think I got them.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 22:41, 1 September 2024 (UTC)

  Looks good. It's an in-air photo from the 40s, so that forgives a lot of filmgrain. Adam Cuerden ^(talk)_{Has about 8.9% of all FPs.} 00:14, 2 September 2024 (UTC)

• Support. Deserving lead image for its article, and being in action in wartime makes up for any minor film imperfections. —David Eppstein (talk) 06:39, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support.--Vulcan❯❯❯Sphere! 13:40, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support — Moonreach (talk) 16:30, 2 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support. As an aside, @Chris Woodrich, do we know what location the plane is flying over in this photo? — Matarisvan (talk) 07:35, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

• Unfortunately, that's not provided by the source.  — Chris Woodrich (talk) 09:03, 3 September 2024 (UTC)

This image doesn't look very realistic. It appears to be a highly stylized or edited representation rather than a true-to-life photograph of the De Havilland Mosquito. Luna Cielus (talk) 21:16, 5 September 2024 (UTC)

• Support High quality photo of this important aircraft type. The fact that it depicts an aircraft serving with a front line combat unit adds strongly to the EV. Nick-D (talk) 23:22, 6 September 2024 (UTC)
• Support – Hamid Hassani (talk) 07:34, 8 September 2024 (UTC)

Promoted File:De Havilland DH.98 Mosquito B Mk IV Series 2 (restoration).jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 16:20, 11 September 2024 (UTC)