Tiger Moth ever used for DH Venom air-to-air photos?

DH82EH: that sounds a wonderful experience!

A Lightning and a Tiger…brilliant!

I remember that photo, 2hotwot, AIR it showed the Lightning practically standing on its tail just behind the Tiger Moth – with the speech bubble from the Tiger cockpit saying “now you are past him put your foot down”.

There’s a classic picture somewhere of a Lightning in formation with a Tiger Moth. One of them is hanging on the stall!

One more anecdote to go with this thread.

I was arriving to a fly in in my Tiger. I heard Dave Hadfield on the radio and he was flying the Lysander.

He asked if I minded if he tried to pull up alongside. Sure thing Dave! He came from below, up beside my right wing. I held course over the field and we were able to make that one pass together. I was flying and had no camera but it was pretty darn cool having that big silver bird off my wing.

DH82EH – no offence intended at all!  

Dave – that is such a cool photo! Now saved to my screensaver/wallpaper folder. Due to the speed differential I expected John to just fly by with my frantically trying to get him in frame but he did a great job formating (or at least slowing enough for me to snap away). 

Definitely not what I was expecting when I got up that morning!

I’ve been there too, in fly-by photo formations. It can work, but the photographer has to have everything organized.

This was a fly-by, not a stable formation. (The Sabre was too heavy at this stage of the mission.)

Well I guess I’ll just go f$@# myself!

Your shots are certainly very cool for sure. It made me think of flying on a summer evening and spotting a hot air balloon. Great fun to buzz around, with respect of course.

Andy

DH82EH, that is very cool! What a great series of shots!

“Using a Tiger as a camera ship for a jet would be way too slow.” – as Sopwith mentioned, I now feel qualified to disagree! I asked here because before we went up I was wondering if anyone else had ever done such a thing as it seemed so counter-intuitive!

The Venom is owned by John Luff and the Tiger by his son Darren – this was the first time they’d flown together.

DSC_3838 by Zac Yates, on Flickr

DSC_3844 by Zac Yates, on Flickr

DSC_3847 by Zac Yates, on Flickr

DSC_3861 by Zac Yates, on Flickr

DSC_3862 by Zac Yates, on Flickr

DSC_3863 by Zac Yates, on Flickr

DSC_3865 (2) by Zac Yates, on Flickr

Yes Zac Yates has done it.

http://www.airic.ca/html/gen2014moths.html

Above is a link from a photo shoot we did in 2014.

Rob Holland wanted to be photographed upside down with smoke on above the two Tigers. He flew between the two and kept stalling and falling between them. The Tigers could not fly fast enough. We finally got a couple of usable shots.

Using a Tiger as a camera ship for a jet would be way too slow.