The Tiger Moth Story

by Alan Bramson

Overview

The Tiger Moth is one of the major aviation success stories in the history of British aviation. Developed by Geoffrey de Havilland and flown for the first time on October 26 1931, the biplane became the most important elementary trainer used by Commonwealth forces. More than 1,000 Tiger Moths were delivered before WWII, and subsequently around 4,000 were built in the UK with an extra 2,000 being manufactured in Canada, Australia and New Zealand. Following the end of WWII, pilots could buy and modify a Tiger Moth for recreational use or agricultural crop spraying and use it relatively cheaply. This, combined with its popularity within the aero club movement, provided employment for the Tiger Moths until the late fifties when the more modern closed cockpit aircraft began to force them into retirement. This new paperback edition provides a comprehensive account of the aircraft origins and its development as a trainer of Commonwealth pilots in times of peace and war. It also looks at some of the other roles which this versatile little aeroplane performed such as a crop duster, glider tug, aerial advertiser, bomber, coastal patrol plane and aerial ambulance. Technical narrative and drawings, handling ability and performance as seen through the eyes of the pilots to make The Tiger Moth Story the most comprehensive book of the aircraft.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781910809440
Publisher:	Crecy
Publication date:	02/28/2020
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 7.80(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

	Foreword	9
	Author's Preface	10
	Acknowledgements	11
Chapter 1	The Family Tree	13
Chapter 2	Birth of the Tiger	33
Chapter 3	The Colourful Thirties	53
Chapter 4	Growing Up	73
Chapter 5	The Fighting Tigers	101
Chapter 6	Tigers in Training	123
Chapter 7	The Post-War Tiger	155
Chapter 8	The Tiger Changes its Stripes	181
Appendix I	Leading particulars of DH 82a Tiger Moth	225
Appendix II	Tiger Moth-equipped Service and Reserve Flying Schools 1937-1954	226
	Pre-War Elementary & Reserve Flying Schools at August 1939	226
	Wartime Elementary Flying Training Schools within the Empire Training Scheme	227
	Post-war Reserve Flying Schools	233
	University Air Squadrons	234
Appendix III	Summary of Production of New Tiger Moths: DH 82b Queen Bee Production	235
Appendix IV	List of registrations of DH 82 and 82a Tiger Moths constructed by the de Havilland Company in Great Britain and other factories abroad	236
	World survey of all known existing Tiger Moth aircraft, January 2005	253
Appendix V	Tiger Moth Pilots Notes	259
	Index	269