Cab? Not in my day. A modern term?

Compton Beauchamp maybe? ‘Compton’ is undoubtedly not the correct/full location name.

Mmm. Fair point. The boss does bear a 200HP BHP stamping. My first thought was DH.4 but IIRC that was a 160hp BHP engine. Ditto FE,2b etc.

Mmmm.

Great info Bob T,

If Tim Moore is reading this ( or reachable via you ) tell him that I have managed to produce 1400 kg/m3 dense wood composite with fairly simple method ( 2015-2017 ). Wood composite is lot stronger than aluminium…and some even as strong as steel…and 1/6th of the weight.

https://newatlas.com/super-wood-stronger-steel/53307/

Wood has been used as a composite in motorsport for many years – the trade name ‘Mallite’ was used in a number of moncoque applications in the same way as it was on the DH Mosquito.

One of the other big aviation event wil be L-Birds back to Normandy, they have around 75 right now.

I saw that too: seems that a lot will be going on and I expect that a lot of warbirds will be doing random trips to the French coast in June.

This site seems to be a good source for most/all on the French side, but not much for UK:

http://www.dday-anniversary.com/#june

I’m not sure that the possible cause of the Tiger Moth accident can be taught-out. It would appear that a very experienced pilot deviated from basic procedure and from instances in the past this would (in those cases at least) seem to be due to a number of reasons which are only becoming apparent in recent times – notably (a) It’s not my aircraft or (b) It’s valuable (monetary or historical).

Neither would have been a consideration during the service life of an aircraft but do seem to be factors nowadays which might cause experienced pilots to make unwise decisions.

Has anyone seen any photos of the vandalism? I have been told by someone on the inside that this story is 100% fake.

Funny you should say that – I had also found no real proof that it had happened and was beginning to wonder. I now wonder what purpose it served if it was a fake news item?