Looking at very beautiful bright red Tiger Moth 😀 ,
On float’s(float’s red too, with white stripe, and white prop, red tip’s)
Sitting on a Lake I think, Reg look’s to be, G-AIVW
Doe’s she still survive in flying order :confused: , and was there any other Tiger Moth’s on float’s
Thank’s in advance if anyone can help 😉 :rolleyes:
It’s in one of me old book’s, that I got in about the late 7O’s, and I hardly look at much now day’s, but it doe’s have some great picture’s 😮 .
The Pictorial History of Aircraft, In full Colour, by David Mondey, ISBN 0 907407 10 2, 1975
By: Arabella-Cox - 25th March 2009 at 10:53
In her early life as the Sea Tiger she also sported a yellow colour scheme as shown in the attached photos – one taken as she was being trundled to the slipway at Lee on Solent and the other sitting pretty in the water – I’m not sure where.
Wicked Willip :diablo:
She was in this yellow c/s when I last saw her flying near Cowes in August 1964
Jim
By: Willip26 - 24th March 2009 at 23:19
G-AIVW also carried a nice blue colour scheme when I last saw her at Newcastle in 1958 before she was sold. She carried the “Throttle Benders” badge on the nose at this time and had just won the King’s Cup air race with Jamed Denier as pilot.
Anybody got a photo of her in this guise?
Jim
In her early life as the Sea Tiger she also sported a yellow colour scheme as shown in the attached photos – one taken as she was being trundled to the slipway at Lee on Solent and the other sitting pretty in the water – I’m not sure where.
Wicked Willip :diablo:
By: low'n'slow - 24th March 2009 at 18:01
A brief extract from a new book on the Tiger Moth which will appear shortly……….;)
“….G-AIVW had won the Kings Cup Air Race in 1958. After service with the Newcastle Aero Club, it was acquired by Tiger Club ‘Patron’ Norman Jones and fitted with floats which had originally been installed on an Aeronca Sedan.
The ‘Sea Tiger’ was named ‘Oswald Short’ in honour of the pioneering seaplane builder and made its first flight in 1963. For almost two decades the aeroplane introduced pilots to the joys and challenges of floatplane flying, both from the sea off the South Coast of England, and later to limit the corrosive effects of salt-water operations, from a lake near Lydd in Kent.”
Sadly the Sea Tiger is no more. The aeroplane was lost in an accident in 1983, thankfully survived by its occupants. Since then no other Sea Tigers have been operated in the UK, although in Finland, the USA and Canada, owners have successfully flown examples with modern lightweight GRP floats which detract less from the aeroplane’s performance and handling.
“The Sea Tiger was never the best-handling float plane” says Keith Sissons, who instructed pilots on the aeroplane’s idiosyncrasies. “The large floats meant that she wasn’t dynamically stable and you had to work continuously to maintain balance in the turns and avoid side-slipping.
“So saying, she trained literally dozens of floatplane pilots during her time. We had great fun. Perhaps one day, it might inspire another Sea Tiger to take to the water – and the air – again in the UK. There’s nothing to beat messing about on floats!”
(All pics from the deHMC archive)
G-ERDS, has operated on floats for the past year or so in Florida. It has now been reconverted back to a landplane and the floats are currently for sale…. anyone wanting to make an offer?
This is a very early Tiger Moth, circa 1932, on sea trials as a possible RAF floatplane trainer.It was never taken up……
By: Arabella-Cox - 24th March 2009 at 10:45
G-AIVW also carried a nice blue colour scheme when I last saw her at Newcastle in 1958 before she was sold. She carried the “Throttle Benders” badge on the nose at this time and had just won the King’s Cup air race with Jamed Denier as pilot.
Anybody got a photo of her in this guise?
Jim
By: STORMBIRD262 - 24th March 2009 at 05:32
😮 Great and interesting stuff 😉
By: 1946 - 24th March 2009 at 01:58
SoDH, Knowing of the owner, and his ways, I dare say it was his own personal conversion. From memory there was no nose/motor mount extention and as it was only three seats. I can still picture him giving joy rides at a local regatter, and again relying on a fadeing memory the seats were steel and of the kitchen table variety.
By: Son of DH - 24th March 2009 at 00:34
Hello 1946. May be a Thruxton Jackaroo, a Canadian Tiger Moth conversion with enclosed cockpit and three seats, sounds very much like your bird. We all know how fond our Canadian friends are of putting floats on things!
By: 1946 - 24th March 2009 at 00:11
Tiger Floats.
Here in Hobart,Tasmania many years ago there was a Tiger Moth opperating with floats. It belonged to a local petrol station owner Vern Reid. To the best of my memory it had the center section between the cockpits removed, and a canopy off a CAC Wackett, (sliding hood) fitted, along with the seating placed off center so a third seat could be in place of the center section. 1967 local large bushfires saw the demise of that aircraft, as it was housed in a shed on the shoreline. Sorry but I do not have any photos of the aircraft. Just as an aside to the number of people in a tiger, there is a photo at the local aero club, again center section removed (Maintaince) and five(5) people cramed in!
By: Propstrike - 23rd March 2009 at 23:12
Nice photo !-very atmospheric.
Sorry, I couldn’t stop myself 😉
By: cestrian - 23rd March 2009 at 22:17
T7187/ G-AOBX at Thorpe Water Park in 1975
By: Arabella-Cox - 23rd March 2009 at 19:21
That looks like the gravel pit alongside the road from Lydd to Camber.
I used to watch you!
Here are some more of India Victor Whisky.
By: Propstrike - 23rd March 2009 at 18:44
G-AOBX was operated by Leisure Sport on floats in 1977, to accompany the S5 replica, and the reproduction WW1 fleet. It wore military colours, but is now in a civi yellow scheme, and has been on wheels for many years.
By: animalsdelight - 23rd March 2009 at 17:50
Tiger Moth on floats
Hi I hope i can attach this picture of me in G-AIVW 9th September 1978
I still fly but an L4 Cub . Sea tiger was at a gravel pit in Kent.
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By: STORMBIRD262 - 11th August 2005 at 21:50
Very Nice Tony!!!!.
Thank you so much for bringing it to us Mate!
Doe’s seem the Moth’s look just as nice, and at home on float’s as well!!!.
If anyone else on the planet has anymore picture’s of Tiger Moth’s on float’s, New or old, please go right ahead and post them here!
By: TonyA - 11th August 2005 at 17:42
Here’s G-ERDS at the Sun’N’Fun Splash-In in 2003
Tony Andrews
By: Steve Bond - 11th August 2005 at 08:07
Yes indeed, taken during joy-riding trips off a beach in the Isle of Wight during the summer of 1919.
By: STORMBIRD262 - 9th August 2005 at 16:27
Thank’s mister Bond.
Look’s to me to be a.
AVRO 536, a con of the 504.
Early post-war pleasure flying job maybe.
The first Con flew at Hamble in April 1919, that look’s like the only float one done.
25 in all built, 10 at Hamble, 12 at Manchester, and 3 at Croydon, where Surrey Flying Service’s, under took assembly.
Type withdrawn finally1930.
By: Steve Bond - 9th August 2005 at 10:04
Not a Tiger I know, but I thought you might like to see another nice seaplane.
By: mike currill - 9th August 2005 at 09:11
Interesting stuff everyone! 🙂 .
That model sound’s pretty cool Landyman(Greg) 😉 .
Heard the same thing Mike, from an old Oz mate, that flew with RAF Coastal Command.
He was alway’s getting shot at by the R.N., one time he said they spotted a Sub, near a convoy, Bob Flashed signaled to a R.N. Destroyer below about it.
And Bob flashed should they engage it 🙂 , Reply came back… Flash flash flash.
PEESS OFF, IT’S OUR’s 😡 .
Was so nice how the different Force’s got on :rolleyes: , Bob said the Navy boy’s would nearly alway’s give you at least 2 salvo’s 😉 , friendly’s or not :rolleyes: .
They still don’t and they don’t always get on within the same service as you will notice if you read Sharkey’s War by Cdr Sharkey Ward RN about the Falklands conflict.
By: STORMBIRD262 - 9th August 2005 at 06:04
Moth’s on float’s
Interesting stuff everyone! 🙂 .
That model sound’s pretty cool Landyman(Greg) 😉 .
Heard the same thing Mike, from an old Oz mate, that flew with RAF Coastal Command.
He was alway’s getting shot at by the R.N., one time he said they spotted a Sub, near a convoy, Bob Flashed signaled to a R.N. Destroyer below about it.
And Bob flashed should they engage it 🙂 , Reply came back… Flash flash flash.
PEESS OFF, IT’S OUR’s 😡 .
Was so nice how the different Force’s got on :rolleyes: , Bob said the Navy boy’s would nearly alway’s give you at least 2 salvo’s 😉 , friendly’s or not :rolleyes: .
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