This seems to have escaped notice.
We were watching Anglia News yesterday which seemed to be live from Cambridge Airport and there seemed to have been a get together of Tigers at the airport, looked to have been sponsored by Marshalls, indeed the boss man himself put on his furry boots and went up in one, there was also an ex Lancaster pilot, whose name we didn’t catch, who claimed to have flown 84 different Tigers, this must be a record, did anyone see, or have knowledge of this event, I did consider shooting off up there when I saw the news item during the mid afternoon, but it was getting late by then, I’ve just checked out Anglia News’s site but can’t get any sense out of it.
I’m surprised that our ‘Glitterai’ didn’t mention this prior to the event.
By: l.garey - 28th January 2008 at 07:28
Tig Willie
Old eagle:
In fact my very first flight at Marshalls was in Tig Willie (G-ALTW).
We had 5 Tigers on the strength in 1958 LTW, HXN, GYU, IBN, NFI, and the Cambridge flying group had 2 others HIZ and OEI. The Marshalls Tigers were overall silver, with “Cambridge light blue” stripes on the fuselage, while the group’s had silver wings and yellow fuselage. Here I am at age 17!
Bluerobin:
I did not know Bill Ison. I had Doug page as CFI, and Ed Minshaw was my instructor.
My qualifying cross country was to Luton. Very different place in those days!
By: BlueRobin - 27th January 2008 at 19:31
Bill Ison sounds a character. Anyone know him?
By: old eagle - 27th January 2008 at 18:54
You beat me by three years …1961 in G-ALTW, pic here from AJJ collection
DC
By: l.garey - 27th January 2008 at 15:29
G-AHXN
It was good to see the photo on the BBC page that pimpernel noted of Tiger Moth G-AHXN.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/content/articles/2008/01/25/tiger_moth_70_feature.shtml
I did my first solo on it at Marshall’s on 3 August 1958.
By: pimpernel - 27th January 2008 at 11:54
This was the reason Pete.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/cambridgeshire/content/articles/2008/01/25/tiger_moth_70_feature.shtml
70 years of the Tiger Moth.
A quick google found this to.
http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/article/default.aspx?objid=43050
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2007/03/17/db1701.xml
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January 27, 2008 at 10:40 am