Hi Vinnie,

Just a thought ..

That avatar of yours is the Tiger Moth with the words Sussex Flying School , or something on the side isn't it?

I was born in Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex, on the south coast of England and used to belong to the flying club at Shoreham airport that became the club mentioned on the side of that aircraft. They used to have 2 Tiger Moths, and, I couldn't swear to it, but that particular model might even be a model of one of them!

The other one was involved in a bizarre accident many years ago, when the pilot got it into a flat spin (and once in one of those, it's impossible to get it out again) and the aircraft spun all the way to the ground. The pilot was OK though, and only the undercarriage was damaged, as the Tiger Moth has a vertical speed of only about 30 mph in a flat spin!

There! Thought that might bore you to death!



-David C.