GWS Tiger Moth

These pictures are pretty cool.

When you look at them notice where my cousin and I are looking.
In every picture you can tell which plane we are flying. In fact
when I first saw the third picture I had to look where we were
looking to find the second plane. These planes really are very small.

Tiger Moths

The first 4 flights of my tiger moth ended in multiple peices. Going from the Sig
Couger which flys very fast to the Tiger Moth that flys very slow took some re-training.
The fourth flight I was starting to feel pretty comfrotable and attempted a loop.
As you Tiger Moth pilots are aware, Tiger moths don't like to loop. I ended up
climbing my neighbors tree and collecting pieces of model airplane from the upper
most branches. I must say though, a little glue and a lot of packing tape later
you couldn't tell it had been crashed, well from about 10 feet you couldn't tell.
Tiger Moths

This school yard is fun to fly at. We fly around in formation all the while seeing
who can go slower and lower and stay in the air. Twice we have had mid air entanglements.
Both time we both remained in the air. These Tiger Moths are not real fast or exciting
but they sure are fun to fly.
Tiger Moths

I had a Sig couger with an ASP .46 for years. I built it in 1991, finnaly sold it in
2002 after it hung in my garage for about 2 years. Over the years it had many many
hours of flying time. It is hands down the most robust model I have ever had. I
crashed it once into a fence pole on final approach. The club field I was flying at
had the runway that extended into the corner of the property. I miss judged the
distance and taged the fence post with the left wing. I patched it up and was back
in the air the following weekend. The next summer I stripped it, made some structural
repairs which included relaminating the sheet covering back onto the foam core wings.
I did that with a hypodermic syringe filled with diluted white glue, then recovered it.
I also turned it into a tail dragger and added retracts. It was owsome. My favorite
manuver with that plane was to gain a couple of hundred feet of altitude then fly
along the runway into the wind. After passing the end of the runway I would open
the throttle all the way, roll it inverted then gently pull the stick back. At first
it took a lot of nurve to and patience to not pull out to soon but when done right
the couger would drop lick a bullet then level off somewhere between 10 and 50 feet
depending on my nerves that day and shoot down the runway and past me at a very high
rate of speed. Just after passing me I would again gently pull the stick back the 
couger would rocket skyword again. Simply awsome. With the retracts the top speed
was significantly higher than without. Any way with all my flying pastures filled
with houses, high club fees and miles between the club fields and my house I just 
didn't get out often and a month turned into many months and then years. Then my
uncle told me about my cousins Tiger moth. When I looked into it I discovered that
the electric technology had matured to a point of actualy being able to have a great
performing airplane. That is when I sold the Couger and purchased some electric
stuff. It is great. I can actualy fly the tiger moth in my back yard and the A-10 
down at the local school yard. It like when I was a kid and could only afford 1/2A
models. Much more fun than messing around with all the formality of clubs, fees,
field maintenance and other modelers flying there planes through peoples car windows.