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I must be the luckiest person today.

 

a Fishing partners father has a 2 seater Tiger Moth in a hanger 50 km from my home town. Last week he won a price for the best restored Tiger Moth in South Africa.

 

Spoke to his farther yesterday and I'm lucky enough to go up with him. ASA it happens i will post some pics from inside the plane.

 

I going to mount paint ball guns on the baby's and attack the hanger and trains in the area......rofl.gif

 

cheers

 

m

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I must be the luckiest person today.

 

a Fishing partners father has a 2 seater Tiger Moth in a hanger 50 km from my home town. Last week he won a price for the best restored Tiger Moth in South Africa.

 

Spoke to his farther yesterday and I'm lucky enough to go up with him. ASA it happens i will post some pics from inside the plane.

 

I going to mount paint ball guns on the baby's and attack the hanger and trains in the area......rofl.gif

 

cheers

 

m

 

Cool!

 

I've been in a stunting Tiger Moth, and it was brilliant. I organised for the pilot to overfly the Lamington ranges in Queensland, and specifically the gravesite of Rex Boyden, an Aussie WW1 RNAS pilot who crashed there in the 30's. Quite a remarkable story of survival of the passengers, and the ordeal to get them out from the middle of a very remote rainforest.

 

As we overflew the gravesite, the pilot asked me if I wanted to do a bit of stunting. Quite unnecessary for me to answer, I just grinned from ear to ear, and he put her through her paces.

 

Morris, you're going to love this. Anyone else that has the opportunity just HAS to do it.

 

 

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I've never been in a Tiger, but I did have a flip in an 'air experience' DHC Chipmunk, and even serviced them for a while. Nothing much can go wrong with a Gypsy Major. Just out of interest, the Gypsy engines were designed by a Major Halford (of later fame at Napier), and the engine is basically half of a Renault V8 of WWI vintage. I'm not sure which aircraft that engine was ever used in, though. Doubtless someone will tell me... :cool:

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I've never flown in an open cockpit, but I did get to do some aerobatics in a T-2 "Buckeye" Navy jet trainer. I took a number of flights and on the three ACM (dogfighting) missions, each about 30 minutes long, I barfed 11 times, which I believe is still the NAS Pensacola record!

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