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unusual facts about Tiger Moth



Flight instruments

This panel arrangement was incorporated into every RAF aircraft, from the light single engined Tiger Moth trainer, to the 4-engined Avro Lancaster heavy bomber, and minimized the type-conversion difficulties associated with Blind Flying, since a pilot trained on one aircraft could quickly become accustomed to any other if the instruments were identical.

Lake Pedder

In 1972, the Christian activist Brenda Hean perished with pilot Max Price in a tiger moth aircraft they were flying from Tasmania to Canberra to protest the damming of Lake Pedder; it was alleged that pro-dam campaigners had entered the plane's hangar and placed sugar in one of its fuel tanks.

Lambach HL.II

There were no Dutch aircraft competing in the North Dutch Flying Club's first international aerobatics competition held in Eelde in the spring of 1936; from a field of German and Dutch pilots, the best placed Dutchman cam second, flying a British Tiger Moth.

Lettice Curtis

She commenced her ATA career by delivering primary training aircraft such as the Tiger Moth, progressing to the Miles Master and North American Harvard advanced trainers.

Weston Airport

Also operated from the airfield was a flying school for private pilots with several Tiger Moth trainer biplanes, an Auster high-wing monoplane and from 1960 two Morane-Saulnier-Rallye four-seater low-winged aeroplanes.

Woburn, Bedfordshire

Tiger Moth airplane rallies continue at Woburn Abbey with the 2013 rally seeing over 80 vintage and classic aircraft in the air above the stately home.


see also

Eyralpenus meinhofi

Eyralpenus (Pareyralpenus) meinhofi (Bartel, 1903) is a polymorphic tiger-moth in the family Arctiidae from the East and Central Africa: Tanzania, Zambia Goodger, Watson, 1995, as meinhofi, Zambia, Angola, Zaire Goodger, Watson, 1995, as metaxantha; Malawi Goodger, Watson, 1995 and Dubatolov, 2009, as melanocera; Zaire Kiriakoff, 1965, as melanocera; Zimbabwe Dubatolov, 2011.

Johanna Mappes

Her other study species include the wood tiger moth (Parasemia plantaginis), vipers (Viperidae), the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata) and the drumming wolf-spider (Hygrolycosa rubrofasciata).

Luskintyre Airfield

In October 2003, Tiger Moths from Luskintyre participated in The Great Tiger Moth Air Race, an event celebrating 100 years of powered flight and sponsored by aircraft manufacturer Airbus.