How to fly a Tiger Moth

[TheAviator789]

Nobody else instructs flying better than the brits!

[noonsight2010]

I was lucky enough to go up in a Tiger Moth in 2007. I can vouch for the controls being very sensitive. I took the stick and the slightest pressure had the aircraft changing course. I soon handed back to the pilot! The experience was terrific, starting off with great excitment and enthusiasm, until levelling out after take-off when I realized just how flimsy the thing was. This soon changed into enjoying the flight and the terrific views. I ended up wishing we could have stayed up longer.

[fiverats1]

You are so smart bomberguy. I am a plane fanatic like you. (imma guy, not a girl) and if you think I know nothing, I know the largest load ever carried by Boeing was about 1 million pounds. That's a lot of weight. It was carried by the 747-8 intercontinental.

[carmium]

"This concludes your ground school instruction. You will now get into your aeroplane and begin the flying segment. Good luck."

(Okay, maybe that was more WWI style instruction.) 8-)

[AppositeExDreams]

Last Saturday I watched a freshly-restored example of these beautiful machines doing circuits and bumps from a farm in Norfolk. It was found in a barn last year, covered in dust and guano; now it's as-new and glorious. The owner said he'd take me up when he's more used to it. It'll be my first open-cockpit flight; I can't wait!

[toose70]

"and underneath a cross level, which helps you keep on an even keel" LOL classic stuff !

[chetankathalay]

Tigermoth...the last real biplane...

[kristenburnout1]

2:06 "Oh, here we go..."

[172gofcm]

Definitely a Tiger Moth on the outside, but the instrument panel is labelled as a Moth Major, a slightly earlier Moth with a wooden fuselage and unstaggered wings. On the G- info website from the CAA 'ACSK is listed as a Tiger from new in 1934, so maybe the inside shots are of a different a/c or the panel was transplanted? Anorak off now, I just love these old films, keep up the good work!.

[torpedorammkreuzer]

great machine!

[BigFatLoserDude]

actually thats great sound for the video ,, no static what so ever

[RLTinsane]

@BigFatLoserDude well.. it is a voiceover. :P

[phoenix2frequent]

Ed, thank you for a fascinating couple of hours today spent looking through your phenomenal archive of aviation film.

Much intriguing and amazing stuff!

And doesn't this great old clip make flying look easy? =D

I was actually hoping I might find at long last a film called "Two in a Tiger" - a training film (possibly for the RAF?) about learning to fly a DeHavilland Tiger Moth.

Is that something you've ever heard of, Ed?

All the best - and thanks for all your fascinating uploaded videos.

Φ

[cessna207]

absoulutly fantastic

[flycrazy1123]

while taking off make sure you make three turns about the roundabbout, take a sip of tea and eat a crumpet. watch out for the trolleys and dont mind the smoke from that alluminium factory

[luckyseven76]

This is flying, thanks!

[jimmy3d0]

Thanks again Bomberguy, that is C.W.A. Scott , he was my great uncle, Ive never seen this film before, so I'm very pleased to see it !! thanks!!

If poss could you tag it with C.W.A. Scott

[IC2720]

Captain Sir Digby Snuffles and myself managed to fly one over Kilimanjaro in 92. We were half way back to Nairobi when we ran into a spot of trouble and had the engine fail. I had to hold the bloody thing up in the air by the floorboards, as we forgot the sky hooks, and had to wait until Lt. Teddy Cumberbun from the squadron managed to get the Rolls up too us for a tow back to the aerodrome. Did have a spot of tea while we waited though, but the biscuits were a bit soggy from the humidity.

[effyleven]

Well, that was easy, wasn't it? Flying a plane achieved in three minutes.

Next week... "How to be a Gynaecologist !"

[mig15fan]

hahaha that was funny

[kitmm]

Rather...!

Thanks for posting :D

[777moth]

I'm surprised by all the negative comments! I fly a Boeing 777 for work, and own a Tiger Moth that I fly for fun. It is a delightful airplane: easy to fly, but difficult to fly well. A pilot would appreciate it's challenges. An "airplane driver" never would.

[111im222]

@777moth hi my name is skye i am a girl and i am 10 years old. i have always wanted to be a pilot. so my grandfather has paid for me to go to moorabin airport to fly there in a pa28 txu with a pilot helping me. this year in christmas i am going on a tiger moth. please give me some helpful tips. :)

from Skye.

[kissmybuttdimple]

makes you want to have a proper cup of tea.

[billoakesattablthree]

Thx, she is a beautiful plane. I saw a refurbished one from gound up for sale on the internet - like new - almost a see thru blood red. The asking price I want to say was 98,000 in U.S. dollars - So they still fix these up - It might have been a copy but I don't think so - she was knockout!

[pesher37]

The Tiger Moth was a great training aeroplane for its day, but to-day greatly over rated. The Tiger was a good spinning aeroplane and of course a stick and rudder aeroplane. From the same era the Auster was a far better work aircraft and could haul a good load out of the bush and fly at slow speeds loaded that outher modern aircraft just cant do to-day.

[fundiebasher]

Dad earned on these in 1942, and he seems to think they got something wrong. When he shows the operation of the throttle he pushes forward to close it and pulls back to open it. We think it's backwards, as any other aircraft we have experience with necessitates the opposite movement on a throttle. Like NORMANCOT1's father, mine went on to Sunderlands after getting his U.S. Navy wings at NAS Pensacola and flying Catalinas.

[NORMANCOT1]

Very good. God that brings back some memories. My late Father not only spoke like that but learned to fly in this plane.

He went on to fly four engined aircraft like the Sunderland

and Halifax. Your right those people don't exist any more except in the movies and peoples memories who came into contact with them. UK is a poorer and sadder place without them.

[mig15fan]

yes, but there allways be "new ol boys" like us to keep up traditions from whern planes were flew by men, not PC´s

[BEATNIKCASS]

jolly good saxonflyer....over and out

[DanBell47]

I LOVE the 1/32nd Scale model kit Matchbox(#PK-505) released of this aircraft, back in 1979.

[pgpete]

I say! - absolutely wizard! pip pip! and all that- eh what? jolly good!

[xoboita]

belo video e maquina nos tambem temos na FAP força aerea portuguesa alguns exemplares. parabens

[Jagdtoq]

Thank you Mr Cholmondley-Warner for this informal yet informative moving picture show lol

[Skiriderdude]

the only real killer aspect of the tiger was the occasional tendency for one slat to unlatch in a spin. it happened to my father and he was trying all ends to bail out pinned to his seat when the other opened with only a few hundred feet in hand. I have seen a photo of the Tiger club's 'Bishop' about to hit the ground with a started greensman looking back. Amazing both pilot % & plane flew again within weeks a tribute to its low speed % ruggedbess

[skyterrapin]

Great, now I can fly!

[sixfootbear]

Tally ho old bean...

[saxonflyer]

Jolly nive affected tone in the narrator's voice. Whatever happened to decent and wholesome British types such as he, I wonder? Alas, step aside for the ever-burgeoning "chav" who wouldn't know what a Tiger Moth was if he prop-swung it without the chocks and he came a cropper!

[harp0marx]

Hey you Ignoramus! I am a so called 'chav' I know what a Tiger Moth is. My Dad's friend managed to Fly one from Bucharest to Beijing in 2006. I'd prefer a Sopwith Camel proppa Old Skool!

[saxonflyer]

How amusing! I happen to be checked out on Tiger Moths and have flown many hours in them, buggers that they are to master, as well as various other types including F4 Phantoms - as I am ex-RAF, and ergo, anything but an 'ignoramus.' I regret that you seem proud to be a 'chav' however? My utter condolences! It would seem that there is some hope for you however, and I would urge you to keep up with your enthusiasm for aviation, as it were chaps in the clip that made the UK once great.

[rogerstill71]

@saxonflyer I'm not arguing with you but my dad served with the RCAF in WWII & he said these were a dream to fly - You had to really TRY to crash. Also, my uncle, a flight instructor with the RAF in WWII, says that if you spin a Moth, just get your hands & feet off the controls & she would fly herself out. I've heard other ex-RCAF pilots echo these observations, too. Maybe your Moths were lemons. Did you ever fly Buccaneers? They're a great plane.

[BEATNIKCASS]

harpomarx, why you young whippersnapper---you need a good caning on the buttocks with a bamboo oil gauge

[unapro3]

Great clip. Got to love the training movies.

[flipper82a]

Nice work man!!!! Hell, I could tell ya some stories!!!! From a land far removed from where we are living now!!! hahahaha ! Brilliant! It bought it all back for me!!!

Have a great festive season lotsa lurvX

[k8amc]

I flew a tiger moth once...Couldnt wait to get it back on the ground.

[DartDakota]

I have flown the oldest existing Tiger Moth, Ed, G-ACDC it was a pig to fly! The instructor said that's why it was such a good trainer.

[denberg2]

Keep 'em coming, Bomberguy!