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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 5, 2011 12:37:12 GMT 12
Oh dear, NZ787 was also coded "46"!!
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Post by Luther Moore on Oct 5, 2011 17:41:31 GMT 12
I have also seen it around somewhere else your right it is common.I wonder if like Dave said someone went around handing them out or the nagatives out? Also common? Uploaded with ImageShack.us
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Post by hairy on Oct 5, 2011 18:47:14 GMT 12
I don't know if it's common but I have a copy, it had once been stuck somewhere, hence marks which have bled through in the top corners............ NZ678 which became ZK-AIE.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Oct 5, 2011 19:13:02 GMT 12
That stencilling on the cowl is a gash job!
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Post by Luther Moore on Oct 6, 2011 2:44:29 GMT 12
Is your photo of ''48'' a print or a real developed photo?
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Post by hairy on Oct 6, 2011 21:04:41 GMT 12
Is your photo of ''48'' a print or a real developed photo? It's a real developed photo.
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Post by Luther Moore on Oct 7, 2011 22:17:08 GMT 12
Here is a great video ''How to fly a Tiger Moth''
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Post by planewriting on Sept 6, 2020 10:30:47 GMT 12
I recently received the following account of an incident at Taieri on 22nd April 1943 as recorded that same day, by the pilot (Peter E Henry NZ429760) and wonder if there is some way I can identify the Tiger Moth involved. Unfortunately, the log book is not readily available. Any help with solving, or suggestions, would be appreciated. He recorded, “Returning from aerobatics I found people scattered all over the landing field to catch the planes as they landed. The gusts of wind reached a recorded velocity of forty-five miles an hour which caused a bit of trouble with a Tiger as they are so light and sensitive to gusts. Got my wheels down for the landing but was suddenly lifted, right wing just dropped away. With engine I just saved the crash but the wing-tip scored the ground and the wheel hit hard on the side. She shuddered for a moment swung round about 90° to the right – I held her straight, full throttle and started getting plenty of airspeed. There is a great big hangar for which I was heading flat out. Some chaps who were at a window turned and ran for their lives. (I’m still laughing about that!) After what seemed like ages, she got enough speed to start climbing so I did a climbing turn around the back of the duty pilot’s tower. Continued climbing to six hundred feet where I began to feel a little shaken up. However, I decided to make a wheeler so flew in edged her down onto the ground at flying speed, eased off throttle and lifted the tail up high so the wind was forcing her onto the ground. They reckoned that the landing was the best one of the day for the wind so that caused me a lot of satisfaction after all that had happened before. My instructor couldn’t help but grin a little when he told me that I was the luckiest chap around the place to have got away without one h- of a crash. Really it must have been as funny as a fight to watch and I’m laughing like one thing as I imagine what it must have looked like – skimming between the hangar and the watch tower at about thirty or less feet. It is good to be able to see the humour of it all as otherwise one might dwell on the wrong side of it”.
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Post by Dave Homewood on Sept 6, 2020 10:38:05 GMT 12
Great story!
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