Lester bodges 3 classic British WWII trainer aircraft.

[LesterBoffo]

OK one is actually a bit of fan fiction.

The planes I'm working on are

A DeHavilland DH82 Tiger Moth



A Taylorcraft/Auster DI





And the one stretching reality; a little 'what if' of Taylorcraft offering their E2 Kitten in the early 1930's to Auster, (which didn't yet exist...) to build under license. Let's call it a Auster Lynx Cub. Piper is going to be very angry about this.



All of these are also JSB sim, yeah I'm in shock myself, I'm not sure what came over me.


All three of these aircraft are powered by various versions of the Blackburn Cirrus/ DeHavilland Major inverted inline 4 cylinder aircooled engines. The Tiger Moth, with the DeHavilland Major is about 135 hp, the Auster DI has a Cirrus Minor 110 HP and the Auster Lynx Cub is about 85 horse early Cirrus Minor.

The Tiger Moth owes it's 3D shape to AlphaSim and I borrowed heavily from Gerard Robin's Stampe SV-4 for the system files for all 3 of these, especially the fueling on the ground with the engine off, the pilot's mass adjustments and the differential braking. The cockpits of all 3 are probably a little too busy with instrumentation, especially the Auster DI and Lynx Cub.

I'm using late 1930's RAF type of instrumentation on all three, including the big old P11 magnetic compass with a mouse clickable heading ring. Gives you something to play with while doing VFR landmark flights. The Auster DI has instrumentation for some early sort of L/R VOR radio beam direction finder radio set. Animating the "magic eye" is a little above my skill set.

[IAHM-COL]

these look neat

[LesterBoffo]

Should note the DeHavilland engines are known as Gypsy Majors, they are a direct clone of the Blackburn Cirrus Major.

Not all quite ready for release yet, but the Tiger Moth is close.

[LesterBoffo]

There's also a possible fourth item, I have a pretty decent model I made of the Airspeed AS4 Ferry. A real British oddball, it was made by Airspeed who were contracted by Alan Cobham's Air-Experience, a series of flying carnivals that worked it's way around the UK in the early 1930's to help educate and interest both adults and children in aviation and aircraft piloting.

The AS4, (of which 4 were made) were originally pressed into service as the Air Experience's Flight Experience rides at the carnivals, and were powered by a trio of two upright and one inverted deHavilland's Gypsy II's, the odd part was the inverted Gypsy II on the upper wing,

[IAHM-COL]

looking good