Restored record-breaking DH-60M

[India Four Two]

Some spectacular pictures of a restored Moth were posted on a FB group I belong to - the de Havilland Chipmunk Appreciation Society.

https://cimg3.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/960x596/56533698_2343205259285284_8096702751045582848_n_ec080da8446d 3e8c7a1c835b587e023a575fbb65.jpg


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This is not just any old Moth - it is the DH-60M flown by CWA Scott from England to Australia in 1931. Elapsed time to Darwin 9 days, 4 hours and 11 minutes.

In spite of the registration, the aircraft was restored in and is based in Australia!

The aircraft's markings are exactly those worn in 1931 - getting the Regulator to agree to an Australia-registered aircraft to wear a UK registration was quite an exercise!

Remarkably pragmatic decision by CASA - known as the Campaign Against Small Aeroplanes.

[dook]

I want one.

[Planemike]

It can be done. We have a de Havilland 83 Fox Moth registered in the UK that cavorts around the sky wearing the marks ZK-AGM...!!! Happens in the USA too....

BTW..... The deH 60 M looks superb....

[India Four Two]

Here’s another quote from the FB page:
This beautiful restoration was completed by Complete Aircraft Care (look at those cowlings!)


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[DaveReidUK]

Remarkably pragmatic decision by CASA - known as the Campaign Against Small Aeroplanes.

We don't discriminate in the UK - we simply have a Campaign Against Aviation. :O

[Blossy]

How unkind! ;)

[ShyTorque]

We don't discriminate in the UK - we simply have a Campaign Against Aviation. :O

Not completely true - at least these days we do have some good decisions being made on the rotary wing side. I think the true campaign against aviation lies in Brussels.

[treadigraph]

I think the true campaign against aviation lies in Brussels.

I've certainly gained that impression from the "spectators's gallery"...

Love that Gipsy Moth, long may these beautiful aircraft continue to reappear and be kept airworthy. Since Ron Souch's first Gipsy restoration appeared around 1980 there seem to have been an extraordinary number of rebuilds of genuine airframes, often from vestigial remains. I see this one also carries it's Orstrlian reg in very small letters under the tail plane.

[India Four Two]

I see this one also carries it's Orstrlian reg in very small letters under the tail plane.

Also in the cockpit too:
https://cimg5.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/960x720/56770711_2343205382618605_5116906659293167616_n_169ce9ca9664 ba9fee51937b6f730a71b8790217.jpg


I wonder what callsign the pilot uses.

[India Four Two]

I want one.

dook,

Here's another one you can lust after:

https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1124/img_2179_cf_adu_moth_fd04246c87c387bd380fc3ebeb4df35a3675a14 8.jpg

It's based near me. My picture was taken at the 2015 Springbank Air Show. I heard it was ground-looped last year, but I understand that the damage was not too serious.

[fauteuil volant]

I think the true campaign against aviation lies in Brussels.

The dull, mantric British bleat that everything that one does not like is the fault of the EU. Why can't people come up with something original, even if they can't be truthful!

[3wheels]

The career of CWA Scott is worth a read.

[megan]

IFT, a Tiger in the background with no slats, that's a rarity.

[India Four Two]

megan,

You've been misled by the open cockpit. At first glance it looks like an 82A but in fact it’s a Canadian 82C that has open cockpits. It was restored by a member of my gliding club. The fuselage frame had been used as a chicken coop and was so corroded, that the owner used it as a template to fabricate a new frame!


https://cimg0.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune.org-vbulletin/2000x1504/56781156_1708725272607063_859970718878662656_o_9ef95937fa736 050d2281d01a7508377b2218544.jpg

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[treadigraph]

I see it has the -82C tail wheel, the brakes too?

I assume CF-ADU is a Canadian-built example.

[India Four Two]

Tredders ,

Yes, Canadian built. All the C features except the canopy. Tailwheel, brakes, no slats, handholds on the wingtips, gear legs tilted forward, etc.

It even has that ultimate luxury - a starter motor!

[dook]

I42,

Thanks for your other Moth pic.

I flew my first solo in a Tiger in 1965, registration G-ANOR. It's still flying, but I'm not.

At the time, I believe the airfield had the biggest collection of Tigers in the world.

Here it is in 1964 at that airfield.

http://i64.tinypic.com/jh3gg1.jpg

[treadigraph]

Think I know where that is - in '64 I was a few months old down at the far end of the next county, where helicopters tended to rule the roost...

[dook]

It is not disguised on file properties.

Plymouth Roborough as it was.

[lauriebe]

That photo brings back memories.

Have stood in almost that same spot on numerous occasions as a young sprog watching the aero club and BRNC Tigers do their stuff.

Just found this image in my archive. Taken circa 1963/64 I think. Scanned from a 35mm slide that has not aged very well.

https://i.imgur.com/kZ810Pa.jpg

Dook, are you a fellow janner by any chance?

[Dora-9]

Yesterday, G-ABHY/VH-UQH flew down to Archerfield (nr Brisbane). Apparently in 1931 it was the first aeroplane to ever land there.

[dook]

lauriebe,

Yes I am a fellow janner. :)