Biplane 'WW2' Trainers - Tiger Moths, Jackaroo & Jungmann - Headcorn Battle of Britain Airshow 2022
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- A pair of De Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moths, a Thruxton Jackaroo and a CASA Jungmann, displaying at Headcorn on the Friday of the Battle of Britain Airshow 2022.
The aircraft in more detail are:-
1/. Aero Legends 1943 De Havilland Thruxton Jackaroo (a Modified DH-82A Tiger Moth), serial No. 82882, G-AOIR, powered by a single De Havilland Gipsy Major 1C engine. This aircraft was previously in RAF service carrying RAF Serial R4972. It went on to the UK Civil Register on 13 January 1956. Its conversion from a Tiger Moth to a Thruxton Jackaroo is recorded on 13 September 1957.
By the end of WW2, more than 8,000 D.H.82s had been built. Large numbers were disposed of as war surplus and were available on the civil market for as little as £50.
A number were the subject of conversion schemes. The most ambitious was designed by Squadron Leader J. E. Doran-Webb as a high wing touring aircraft and was first carried out by Jackaroo Aircraft, Thruxton, Hampshire, England in 1957. It involved widening the fuselage to seat four passengers in side-by-side pairs.
This became the D.H.82A (Mod) Jackaroo and later came to be known as simply the Thruxton Jackaroo. The first aircraft modified to the design flew on March 2, 1957. 18 Tiger Moths were modified in this way by Jackaroo Aircraft and 1 by Rollason Aircraft and Engines Ltd at Croydon, between 1957 and 1962.
This aircraft is one of only three airworthy Jackaroo’s remaining.
2/. Aero Legends 1959 De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth, G-PWBE was manufactured in Australia by Lawrence Engineering and Sales Pty Ltd as serial number LES1. It first appeared on the UK Civil Register on 23 July 1999, having formerly been on the Australian register as VH-KRW.
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) operated over a thousand DH.82 Tiger Moths, mostly for pilot basic training. De Havilland Aircraft Pty Ltd at Mascot Aerodrome, Sydney built a total of 1,090 Tiger Moths between 1940-1945 to RAAF, Royal Air Force (RAF),Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) and other military and civil orders. By 1958 large numbers of ex military Tiger Moths were still in widespread use across Australia as civil aircraft, flown by private owners, aero clubs and aerial agricutural operators. At Camden Airport, south of Sydney, a small company called Lawrence Engineering and Sales Pty Ltd (L.E.S.) had purchased the RAAF's remaining Tiger Moth spare parts stock. These had been released for disposal following the retirement of the last few RAAF and Royal Australian Navy (RAN) Tiger Moths. The large size of the spares holding, including Gipsy Major engines, new fuselage frames and complete wings, resulted in L.E.S. calculating that at least a dozen aircraft could be assembled from these components. The proposal was put to the Australian Department of Civil Aviation, which agreed that that these newly-assembled aircraft would comply with the existing De Havilland DH.82 Type Approval, but stipulated a new construction number sequence, commencing with LES.1
L.E.S. manufactured 11 Tiger Moths in the period February 1959 to June 1962.
Its Gypsy engine was built under licence by Holden Motors Australia and it was first registered on the Australian civil register on 6 February 1959.
In June 1999 the aircraft came to the UK. It was acquired by Aero Legends in 2014.
G-PWBE has the advantage of also being able to operate from a hard runway as it has been modified with brakes and a tail wheel.
Australian built Tiger Moths also have a solid leading edge on their wings which makes them slightly faster than UK built Tiger Moths.
3/. De Havilland DH-82A Tiger Moth, T7109, G-AOIM, was built by Morris Motors at Cowley, Oxford in July 1940, carrying manufacturers serial 83536. It was delivered during that month to RAF 38 Maintenance Unit (MU) at Llandow, South Wales. By February 1941 it was at 19 Elementary Flying Training School (EFTS) Sealand in North Wales, where it remained until July 1945 - although 19 EFTS disbanded in December 1941 and the aircraft remained at RAF Sealant with 24 EFTS from February 1942. It was then transferred to 9 MU at RAF Cosford. It then had short periods at RAF Honiley, 33 MU at RAF Lyneham and with the station flight at RAF Eindhoven, before returning to 9 MU at Cosford, from where she was transferred to the Royal Aircraft Establishment (RAE) at Farnborough, during April 1955. She then went on to the UK civil register in 1956.
4/. The Bücker Bü131 Jungmann was the basic training aircraft for the German Luftwaffe throughout the 1930s and WW2. It was produced under licence in Spain as the CASA 1.131 Jüngmann, of which about 530 were built until the early 1960s. They remained in service as the Spanish Air Force's primary basic trainer until 1968. This aircraft, G-BDTZ, was built in 1957 and is powered by a 125 hp (93 kW) ENMA Tigre G-IVA engine.
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Great video; a sobering thought to consider how many people flew one of these and didn't survive the war in one piece.
Thanks. Yes, very sobering indeed!
Happy New Year! Greeting from Hungary :)
Happy New Year to you and all in Hungary, greetings and best wishes.
@@HighFlight Thank you!
A lovely video! And very interesting details in the notes! It would be very nice to buy a DH 82 for £50, I nearly bought one at the DH Moth rally Woburn for £5000, but of course it was not complete. Happy 2024 to you Steve! Chris B.
Thanks Chris. Happy 2024. A pity that DH82 wasn't complete and at the same price.
@@HighFlight Ha Ha! It would have been in my barn now, not sure if the DH Moth Rally is still held at Woburn, it was a really good event in a lovely setting, and we enjoyed it for many years. Chris B.
@@453421abcdefg12345 Chris, Sadly it was an event that I never went to and must have been a glorious setting. It appears online that the final ever such event was in 2015. Steve.
@@HighFlight How sad the show is no longer held, I suppose the safety people and noise abatement put an end to this wonderful event, I think the way it goes is"if people enjoy doing this, let us ban it" Stay sane! Chris B.
@@453421abcdefg12345 Chris - This was the public statement issued at the time (found on a forum) - "It has been announced from deHMC HQ that the 2015 Moth Rally at Woburn Abbey was to be the last. The effort to run the Rally by a small organising team operating all year round is considerable and most of us are not in our first flush of youth. The financial stakes are becoming huge and income is dependent on public attendance which has not been great. Finally, the weather plays a very big part both in aeroplane and public attendance. Whereas Moth Rallies of old were mostly blessed with fine weather and light winds, more recently the weather has been changeable to say the least. We lost whole days in 2013 and 2014.
2015 saw a return to the more traditional ‘Woburn Weather’ and we had a good time celebrating the 30th event of its kind, the 40th anniversary of the de Havilland Moth Club and the 90th anniversary of the first flight of the first Moth. We now feel it is time to stop.
For the future the plan is to organise something, somewhere, on a much less ambitious scale and investigation of the prospect is already under way. It addition we may well see the return of a Charity Flying event now that the rules have been reassessed."