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: mike currill - 8th August 2005 at 23:51
Over the years I think a large number of Moths/Tiger moths have spent at least some of their life on floats. I know the Queen Bee was operated on floats as a taget for the RN. Mind you, having said that, if it flies the RN seem to regard it as a legitimate target to go by the reports of WWII RAF pilots who were fired upon by them
By: landyman - 8th August 2005 at 16:07
if you can find it Matchbox did a model tiger moth in 1/32nd scale and one of the options was to build G-AIVW, (the others were a standard RAF tiger and a Canadian one with canopy and the option of ski’s. its a very nice looking model when built too.
Greg
By: STORMBIRD262 - 8th August 2005 at 15:32
Bugger, crashed
Thank’s Everyone 😀 ,
Nice example Papa 😎 , thank you for bringing it to us mate 😉 .
That’s a damn shame she was crashed 🙁 , looked real nice in the 70’s 🙂
By: Ewan Hoozarmy - 8th August 2005 at 13:31
G-AIVW was operated by the Tiger Club from a lake at Rye. Unfortunately, it was spun-in off a tight turn at Camber Sands and the remains are now with the ‘Robertsbridge Aviation Museum’.
By: Papa Lima - 8th August 2005 at 13:31
DH Moth Sk 9H
Here is an example in the RSwAF Museum at Linköping, Swedish designation Sk 9H (Trainer) – donated to the Museum in 1984 by the Swedish Air Force Museum Foundation in connection with the inauguration of the first display hall.
By: The Blue Max - 8th August 2005 at 13:19
Sadly G-AIVW was crashed some years ago, she was cartwheeled across a lake with much damage. I belive the remains are still about but as to the current position i dont know, maybe someone on here will know her currnt state.
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