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Title: a WW1 biplane overhead today - what was it?
Post by: Ruah on July 30, 2012, 03:06:40 AM: So a rare day off from my research yesterday and decided to go punting down the river Cam. In typical British fashion, the weather decides to go from warm and sunny to storm in a flash.

sunny
(http://i469.photobucket.com/albums/rr52/existentialvoid/DSC07249.jpg)
stormy
(http://i469.photobucket.com/albums/rr52/existentialvoid/DSC07322.jpg)

anyway - overhead there was a WW1 era biplane (Duxford is 20 miles away) and I cannot seem to figure out what it is - I know that Duxford has the SE5a and the Bristol. . .and i am tempted to say this was the Bristol. . .but can anyone identify?

(http://i469.photobucket.com/albums/rr52/existentialvoid/DSC07297.jpg)

cheers
Title: Re: a WW1 biplane overhead today - what was it?
Post by: kilo2 on July 30, 2012, 03:19:35 AM: Ruah you animal!
Title: Re: a WW1 biplane overhead today - what was it?
Post by: MrMeanie on July 30, 2012, 03:21:22 AM: Bristol
(http://www.airmuseumsuk.org/airshow/2004/Shut040606/800/images/225%20Bristol%20F.2b%20Fighter.jpg)

Swordfish.

(http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/27/article-1338116207139-1351988A000005DC-498765_466x326.jpg)
Title: Re: a WW1 biplane overhead today - what was it?
Post by: kilo2 on July 30, 2012, 03:27:19 AM: Quote from: MrMeanie on July 30, 2012, 03:21:22 AM
Bristol
(http://www.airmuseumsuk.org/airshow/2004/Shut040606/800/images/225%20Bristol%20F.2b%20Fighter.jpg)

Swordfish.

(http://img.metro.co.uk/i/pix/2012/05/27/article-1338116207139-1351988A000005DC-498765_466x326.jpg)

Good call. I think you are correct with the bristol.
Title: Re: a WW1 biplane overhead today - what was it?
Post by: palef on July 30, 2012, 04:01:49 AM: It's a De Havilland Moth of some description, probably a Tiger Moth given the photo location.

Here's a clear shot of the underside of a Tiger Moth:
(http://www.tigermoth.com.au/wp-content/themes/thesis_18b4/custom-sample/rotator/tiger-moth.jpg)
Title: Re: a WW1 biplane overhead today - what was it?
Post by: FTJR on July 30, 2012, 04:07:12 AM: I'd go with the Tiger Moth
Title: Re: a WW1 biplane overhead today - what was it?
Post by: Bruv119 on July 30, 2012, 04:09:48 AM: <---- looking for OBX in all the wrong places :aok

ruah being sunburnt and then rained on is just a typical British summer ;)
Title: Re: a WW1 biplane overhead today - what was it?
Post by: Plawranc on July 30, 2012, 04:45:21 AM: That's a Tiger-Moth.

I believe that's the yellow one based at Duxford.
Title: Re: a WW1 biplane overhead today - what was it?
Post by: Midway on July 30, 2012, 05:34:38 AM: Ruah looks very intelligent and upper crust in that Britsh ship. :old:
Is that a yoga pose in the first picture? :old:
The televised Olympics enable us to enjoy and appreciate much of British culture, as do these pictures? :old:

:salute Ruah :rock
Title: Re: a WW1 biplane overhead today - what was it?
Post by: MrMeanie on July 30, 2012, 05:35:45 AM: (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/35/DH_82A_Tiger_Moth_-_N81DH.jpg)
Title: Re: a WW1 biplane overhead today - what was it?
Post by: Tracerfi on July 30, 2012, 08:20:57 AM: INTERESTING
Title: Re: a WW1 biplane overhead today - what was it?
Post by: R 105 on July 30, 2012, 09:20:41 AM: I had the opportunity to take a ride in a Tiger Moth as a teenager in the 60s. It was in the dead of winter in Ohio but I didn't care it was great anyway. A fellow named Joe Margo owned it. Joe is long dead now but he had many cool old planes most of witch we let sit in a field and rot down.
Title: Re: a WW1 biplane overhead today - what was it?
Post by: BFOOT1 on July 30, 2012, 06:54:21 PM: If only I could go to Britain. This makes me very jealous of you Brits Ruah. You've got the Olympics, great WWI-WWII museums and aircraft. You have wonderful historic landmarks. I will make it there someday, but for now I sent in America envying you. :(
Title: Re: a WW1 biplane overhead today - what was it?
Post by: Ruah on July 31, 2012, 10:48:58 AM: Oh, I am not British, I am a german-jew who was raised all my life in Japan and after hopping around the world studying (france, japan, NY) and working all over (pakistan, congo, zambia, yemen, etc), am in the UK working on my ph.d. . . although I love it here, getting pretty tired of it, may move again soon. . .who knows.

anyway, the IWM (Imperial War Museum) has a program called Vintage flying experiences where you can be taken up in vintage aircraft, and surprise surprise, they have a tiger moth. So yah, probably that.

cheers for the help guys, I knew there would be people here who would know right away.
Title: Re: a WW1 biplane overhead today - what was it?
Post by: Midway on July 31, 2012, 10:53:57 AM: Quote from: Ruah on July 31, 2012, 10:48:58 AM
Oh, I am not British, I am a german-jew who was raised all my life in Japan and after hopping around the world studying (france, japan, NY) and working all over (pakistan, congo, zambia, yemen, etc), am in the UK working on my ph.d. . . although I love it here, getting pretty tired of it, may move again soon. . .who knows.

anyway, the IWM (Imperial War Museum) has a program called Vintage flying experiences where you can be taken up in vintage aircraft, and surprise surprise, they have a tiger moth. So yah, probably that.

cheers for the help guys, I knew there would be people here who would know right away.

:O ph.d? :O You must be very smart. :rock
Title: Re: a WW1 biplane overhead today - what was it?
Post by: BFOOT1 on July 31, 2012, 11:39:00 AM: Very nice Ruah did not know that sir :salute
Title: Re: a WW1 biplane overhead today - what was it?
Post by: FatalError1 on July 31, 2012, 03:34:42 PM: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCk4ywD_yyM&feature=player_detailpage
Tigermoth
Title: Re: a WW1 biplane overhead today - what was it?
Post by: phatzo on July 31, 2012, 05:49:07 PM: Quote from: FTJR on July 30, 2012, 04:07:12 AM
I'd go with the Tiger Moth
me too since I see a few of them around here.