de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth – World Warbird News https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com The latest in warbirds and historical aviation Mon, 28 Aug 2017 08:55:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/WWN-icon-256-150x150.png de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth – World Warbird News https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com 32 32 Two killed in Tiger Moth crash in the UK https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2017/08/28/two-killed-in-tiger-moth-crash-in-the-uk/ https://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/2017/08/28/two-killed-in-tiger-moth-crash-in-the-uk/#respond Mon, 28 Aug 2017 08:53:41 +0000 http://www.worldwarbirdnews.com/?p=3382

A de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth during the Flying Legends 2015 airshow.

A de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth crashed Saturday morning in Shaftesbury, near Compton Abbas Airfield in Dorset. Tragically, the pilot, aged 64, and his passenger, aged 67, were killed in the accident. The causes for the accident are unknown.

Source: The Sun

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The Flying Lesson is an ambitious action/drama short film involving air-to-air stunt sequences with a vintage WWII Tiger Moth bi-plane.

After the recent death of her grandfather, Phoebe Sanderson (Jessica Blake) takes a flying lesson in the exact plane her grandfather flew in WWII, a recently restored Tiger Moth. With a sense of trepidation, she takes flight with a promise to keep. Only a chauvinistic flying instructor (Richard J. Fletcher) with a secret stands in her way…

Find out more about this short movie on Vimeo: The Flying Lesson.

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Photo Javier Pedreira (CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Classic Wing’s Tiger Moth G-ANPE was damaged on Friday September 30 when it overshot the runway at Duxford. The two people on board received minor injuries and were taken to the hospital. The aircraft has received substantial damage. 

Some sources indicate three people were injured but no confirmation has been found.

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Tiger Moth XL716 carried the colours of the Royal Navy. (Photo by Simon Chapman (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0))

A man was killed and another gravely injured in the crash of their de Havilland Tiger Moth (XL716/G-AOIL) on May 15, 2011 near Witchampton, in Dorset. The exact cause of the accident is yet unknown, but eyewitnesses thought the aircraft was doing aerobatics and heard the engine quit shortly before the crash.

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