Tiger Moth with a Tail Wheel
 

Hi,
Does anyone know of any Tigers with the tailwheel approved mod? We have a display to do and the airport "management" wont allow a tailskid Tiger to display despite the theme of the display being WWII training aircraft!!!!!!!

Steve

Probably no help at all, but I think Canadian-built Tigers had a tail wheel (and brakes!). Don't know if any have ever graced the UK register though.

Which airfield won't let you operate with a tail skid - have they no soul?

Ace Flight - at Dunkeswell have a tailwheel Tiger....

Tiger hangared at Sywell with tail wheel ............ & brakes.

I was about to write that there was Tiger with brakes and tailwheel at Sywell when I did my Flying Scholarship (in 1961!) - wonder if it the same one. Used to belong to an American pilot from one of the local bases. Also there was a bright red one owned by either Mr Stewart or Mr Lloyd (from the steel works in Corby)

Streckers at Rand Airport, RSA rebuild them with brakes and steerable tailwheels.

Tigers
 

ISTR the Canadian conversions had the main gear repositioned a bit further forward for reasons which hopefully are obvious......:)

Thanks guys but it looks like there will not be a Tiger displaying.

Having been asked to identfy the airfield - all I'll say is that the airshow is celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain this weekend and the display sequence around this theme is going to be fantastic.

However it should start with our brave airmen's first steps with a 4 minute segment demonstrating the WWII training aircraft. Well it was anyway.

It is so wrong that this legendary basic trainer will not be represented. OK our Harvard will charge about a bit with a German trainer BUT I would say that almost all of the young men who gave their lives to defend our country started their committment to defend us by learning to fly on the Tiger. It is criminal that this wonderful aircraft is not represented.

Rant over! Back to reality where hi viz rues.

Think I'm with you there WanSum, my flab is absolutely aghasted if I'm right.

Same airfield I'm thinking of, not a million miles from me right now and which I'll be at this weekend, hosted the Diamond Nine on many occasions. Don't they have a parallel grass strip, or was that too costly to maintain?

Is there not a tiger moth friendly airfield nearby were you could hop from and not land at the display airfield. Just a thought.

I think were are going to have to come in from our base at EGTO. Just a shame for the pilot & ground crew who will miss the rest of the show.

G-BMPY was displaying at Kemble last weekend.

In the end we came in from EGTO and displayed both days.

We had to smirk when the undershoot that we had suggested we land on was trashed by some of Her Majesty's finest jets!!!