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Post by 30sqnatc on Jan 15, 2021 15:57:30 GMT 12
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jan 15, 2021 19:12:28 GMT 12
I note that they haven't put a serial number on the aircraft portrayed.
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Post by davidd on Jan 16, 2021 10:19:39 GMT 12
With the machine gun fitted, presume it is supposed to represent the 1930 expedition to (Western) Samoa, so should be advertised as an NZPAF aircraft rather then the present title. Also (from memory) was not the Samoa seaplane fitted with a pilot-operated gun on some kind of beam mounting? I think performance with floats was not that fantastic, also was the a/c fitted with some kind of wireless apparatus (to use the term of the day)? To be fair to the manufacturer, I believe the Samoa Moth (DH s/n 995) never carried a representation of this number externally on the airframe. Also, to be strictly correct for that era, the rudder stripe colours should be reversed (blue to fore), have I got that all right?
David D
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Post by Dave Homewood on Jan 16, 2021 13:29:16 GMT 12
The floats from that Moth were later loaned to Pommy-Kiwi adventurer Francis Chichester who flew his own Moth with the floats on from New Zealand to Japan, on the way to the UK but he crashed into wires and the aircraft was, I think, destroyed.
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Post by Peter Lewis on Jan 16, 2021 20:54:04 GMT 12
That NZPAF DH60G Moth floatplane carried its serial '995' painted on the fin.  |
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Post by delticman on Jan 16, 2021 21:12:22 GMT 12
Quick check, 995 was the De Havilland c/n.
Maybe the number was stuck on with paper!
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