This morning, Mark, who has authorization to fly the Tiger Moth kept at the Club, decided to take it up for a few circuits. Dave was a very happy passenger. The only drawback to flying this lovely machine is the open cockpit. After a while in the air at this time of year, just below the cloud base (somewhere between 2 and 3 thousand feet today), the portions of the face that are unprotected become extremely cold, Mark reported, and significantly reduce the pleasure to be extracted from flying the biplane. But this is a pilot who's been seen to take the old kite up in mid Winter, with snow on the ground and frost in the air. Expect to see the familiar silhouette of the Moth in Kingston's skies again before long.
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