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Bill King is another friendly pilot who has placed himself and his plane at the museum's disposal. He owns a very nice old Tiger Moth... come take a look-see.



A close-up of the esteemed Gipsy Major 120hp engine.


The preshow preparations are painstaking and deadly serious... here Bill is absorbed in this most vital task- preparing the toilet paper for the ribbon-cutting competition.
"Absorbed"- get it?;D One thing I love about this shot is that it shows the very generous cargo area behind the rear cockpit- didn't know about that before.


A blazing flyby...



A sweet landing.


Have a few overhead shots, but they're mostly just silhouettes or sort of distant and blurry...

Ahhh. This brings the memories flooding back. Beautiful.

One thing I love about this shot is that it shows the very generous cargo area behind the rear cockpit- didn't know about that before.

We used to keep a selection of cushions in there. The ex-RAF Tigers have bucket seats designed to take a service-type parachute. The cushions were used to replace it & gave a certain amount of seat adjustment. The chief flying instructor (my boss) was a very short man & had his own special seat. My life wouldn't have been worth living

Great story. That small CFI sounds like someone straight out of a Gann novel...
Slats, slats... ? Oh, had to look again; leading-edge slats.No idea.  I unfortunately didn't talk much with Bill; as usual there was a small crowd of noobies around who had zillions of less arcane questions, and as drawing the ignorant masses back for another show is so vital to this museum, I let him do his thing for their benefit. I'll remember for next time: Slats- fixed or not?
I guess the taboo about the doors is related to them maybe banging around unecessarily... reminds me of the fact that I was admonished more than once during my training for forgetting to dog a Cessna window before takeoff, yet it's perfectly safe to fly with it open at most speeds. But fussing with an open window is the last thing you want to even think about when climbing out; I never understood why any CFI would even mention it until we'd levelled off. It was always: "Window...!! No, not now; what are you doing?!"  ::)
I did once have an instructor who enjoyed opening the door(!) of the C150 in flight and leaning out to place his foot on the gear-leg footstep (with seat belt still on, of course!). He insisted, in fact, that I try it too- I'm glad he did . It was fun.  No big deal with the resulting minor turbulence inside; just had to make sure the chart was clamped down first. And I found I could easily maintain heading and altitude when he had the right door open. You might say it was educational, in that sense.  He was, shall we say, not so uptight. But a very good pilot and effective instructor; all business when it counted. Taught me a lot about how to scan the instruments while primarily looking outside...
 

Great story bout the Cessna doors. Never flown in one myself.

That small CFI sounds like someone straight out of a Gann novel...

Not far from the truth. Cecil Lawrence Pashley MBE, Master Aviator. One of the real pioneers. You might remember me mentioning him in the Real Aviation forum. http://www.simviation.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?board=genav;action=display;num=1111354084

I guess the taboo about the doors is related to them maybe banging around unecessarily...

Right. He was very fussy about things like that & not without reason.  They were his aircraft so he expected people to treat them with a little respect. Instructors even fly with those doors open now. Pash would have gone ballistic.

Lovely. Beautiful colour scheme (nice to see its kept its G-reg colours - I assume its still N registered though), and interesting that it appears to be G-ACDB. G-ACDC still flies in the UK (with the famous Tiger Club I believe)...

Lovely. Beautiful colour scheme (nice to see its kept its G-reg colours - I assume its still N registered though), and interesting that it appears to be G-ACDB. G-ACDC still flies in the UK (with the famous Tiger Club I believe)...

Another thing I need to ask bill about if and when I get a chance...

Wonderful...certainly brings back fond memories

Nice clean engine...can almost smell it.

Did you get any interior shots?

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

Wonderful...certainly brings back fond memories

Such as...?

Did you get any interior shots?

Nope. I'm not among the "elite" who can cross that fence (yet), and Mr. King was busy prepping before the show and took off for home immediately after, so I didn't get close enough. Maybe next time...

Now THAT is the kind of plane to have fun in

Now THAT is the kind of plane to have fun in

May be a little small though...

Take up yoga Chris Nudge nudge wink wink say no more....