Vintage Aircraft has an outing...

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.

Veteran pilot takes to the air..

I had the privilege this morning of taking an aviator back into the air, who saw his first flying, in postwar Germany, in the 1950s. Hans spent more than 400 recreational hours in a variety of aircraft, including Tiger Moths, the J-3 Cub and the very British Auster, which he didn't like at all. His last flight at the controls was in 1963, but this morning, as a treat from his son-in-law, he sat in the right-hand seat and enjoyed the sensation of flight in a light aircraft again - in near perfect conditions. His delight at the experience is evident...

By the way, we showed him our resident Moth, which he remarked differed only a little from the ones he'd flown in that it has a tail wheel rather than a skid.