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Re: DH-82 Tiger Moth Survivors
Posted by Matt on Thu Oct 03, 2002 04:55:52 AM
In reply top DH-82 Tiger Moth Survivors posted by Mike Henniger on Mon Sep 30, 2002 08:10:35 PM
Hi Mike,
When I first read your request, I thought that you were asking about any survivors of the original DH-82 Tiger Moth, not DH-82a or DH-82C. If I recall rightly, the straight DH-82 Tiger had a fuselage frame simply made out of wood. The 'a' came about when they redesigned it to have a steel fuselage frame, due to the number of fatalities from accidents. Please note that I have only heard about this recently, so is not guaranteed to be correct, and besides, I don't follow the old Tiger too closely! The 'C' is a Canadian built variant, which also had some pecularities compared to the rest of the breed.
Now that other people have posted, it seems that you were interested in survivors in general. I don't know exact numbers, but there are in the order of 200 odd survivors here in Australia.
As an aside, do any original DH-82 Tigers still exist? Anyone?
Cheers,
Matt
: Does anyone know where I can find a list of the deHavillan
: d Tiger Moth survivors that are in museums or are on the a
: irshow circuit? Will be doing some research on the histor
: y of the survivors, and my initial search hasn't revealed
: a good survivor list.
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: Regards,
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: Mike