The maker’s badge on the propeller is for Lang Airscrew, otherwise known as The Airscrew Company, which at the time was based at Brooklands.

Dashwood Lang then moved the company to Peterborough in the mid-1930s, then when the anticipated business from Aeronca failed to materialise, reformed it in Chesham as Hordern Richmond.

The stampings on the propeller boss are identical to those used later by Hordern Richmond on props for Tiger Moths and the like.

The Morris Motors bit is a brilliant red herring. It looks as if – lord alone knows why – the propeller has at some point been mounted on a vintage Morris front wheel hub!

They are actually my photographs, I also have some of the Pawnee, closed cockpit Turbulent, Gunbus etc.

Mike

Apologies Mike. Arthur has sent me a lot of photos of his aeroplane but didn’t tell me whose they were. In hindsight, the filename of the photos should have given me a clue. :rolleyes:

Hope you don’t mind them being shown. And yes, I for one would love to see some others!

Also if you run a search on http://www.britishpathe.com there are some movie images of the Dunstable air shows too.

RAF Henlow? Recently refurbished too!

(Pic courtesy of Geoff Collins.)

I also seem to remember that two survive on the original pre-Squires Gate aerodrome site at Blackpool. Now used as feed stores and animal hospital for Blackpool Zoo.

Looks like this thread is turning into a re-run of this one :diablo:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthread.php?t=39321

Don’t you believe it – just wait till film SE-5 expert ‘The Blue Max’ gets back online this evening! :diablo:

It is also worth checking out these pics on the Air-Britain website:

http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1038262/

http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1038207/

http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1038264/

Very droll, old chap…..

A “Black” project indeed, Low’n’Slow.

It was good to meet you at last, and to put a face to the name, btw.

Likewise Tangmere. And what a privilege to be shown around the facility. Hopefully now working on an HAA Members visit. Worth joining the Association for that alone! 😎

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……