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Lower port wing internal structure. Apart from the engine, the new Gipsy Moth was a standard DH.60. Except for changes to accommodate the engine the fuselage remained the same, the exhaust still ran alongside the left side of the cockpits and the logo on the right side still read 'De Havilland Moth'.
The first Moth was the DH.60 - a straight-winged biplane two-seater. To enable storing the plane in small spaces, the DH.60's wings could fold backwards against the fuselage. "Like a moth" remarked Geoffrey de Havilland, an avid lepidopterist, [citation needed] so the plane was nicknamed Moth from the drawing board on.
She shortly purchased a second-hand Gipsy Moth for £240. [28] Five years old, the aircraft reportedly had four previous owners and had been reconditioned due to an accident. [29] The Gipsy Moth was kept at Brooklands, an aerodrome in Surrey, and Batten and her mother lived nearby while she prepared the aircraft for her record attempt. At ...
Two people are dead and another is injured after a Civil Air Patrol plane crashed Saturday in northern Colorado. The Civil Air Patrol, an auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, said the aircraft -- a ...
On August 4, debris from a plane crash was found on the Aletsch glacier by a mountain guide, according to local authorities. Local police said in a statement that their investigation determined ...
NTSB chair Jennifer Homendy called it a “high-impact crash” that left the plane “highly fragmented.” The crash scene spanned at least four to six blocks, and authorities were working to ...
The de Havilland Gipsy is a British air-cooled four-cylinder in-line aircraft engine designed by Frank Halford in 1927 to replace the ADC Cirrus in the de Havilland DH.60 Moth light biplane. Initially developed as an upright 5 litre (300 cubic inch) capacity engine, later versions were designed to run inverted with increased capacity and power.
2 dead in single-engine plane crash in Northern California. June 13, 2024 at 9:05 PM. ... The two occupants, whose names have not been made public, were pronounced dead at the scene, the sheriff's ...