The Mosquito WWII Nightfighter

By Michael Russell

A night fighter can be best defined as a fighter aircraft that - either by design or by adaptation - could fly at night or when other aircraft were grounded due to poor visibility. To be able to fulfil its role, a typical night fighter would be a twin-engined aircraft with the nose section crammed full of electronic equipment, typically radar, direction finders to find the airbase at night, a variety of communications equipment plus special lighting inside the cockpit.