Ptmvarsityfan Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Bit of an amendment to above post. There are some nice photos of RAF DH60M's in the latest Aeroplane bookazine company profile "De Havilland Military Types" which show the two access doors both open and closed. Two doors on the starboard side. When closed they are barely visible. On many photos of Moths the whole lower wing is silver doped with no black walkways. I believe the non-slip black walkways were a special coating developed by Berger paints, not sure when this was introduced but I suspect the early Moths pre-dated this. Cheers, Paul Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Aero Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 The walkways on Moths are on the opposite side to the exhausts. So with Gipsy Moths the tread is on the Stb side except the prototype Cirrus Moth which had a crossover exhaust. Moth (T) (Metal) can have four doors but they have a different exhaust (and bracing) arrangement and the front doors are deeper. Standard 60M Moths have the door on the right (Stb side) All Moths had a strengthened root walkway and it wasn't always painted Black. Four door Moths will have two walkways. The Cirrus engines turn to the right and Gipsy's, to the left. Also the door widths vary between Cirrus II and Cirrus III Moths. GIII's have four doors and Wright engine'd American Moths have the exhaust on the right so entry is from the left. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptmvarsityfan Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Hi, have looked at a couple of photos of the RAF 60M's in Stuart McKay's book on the Moth including one of the Hendon Aerobatic team in flight and the lower wings appear to be all silver although in the more close-up photo there is clearly some reinforcing structure by the wing root.I suspect the black painted walkways were introduced possible later in the 1930's. Cheers, Paul 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMB Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 I think the G-AALG decals on the Airdecal sheet are incorrect as they give the wing letters in plain blue. The museum photo shows that the letters had a white outline. But we agreed that the museum photo shows it in later ownership. The Airdecal sheet is accurate for the scheme it depicts. All the Kings Flight aircraft of the period - DH60, DH80,DH84 and DH89 all had plain dark blue lettering on the wings with no white outline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivor Ramsden Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 But we agreed that the museum photo shows it in later ownership. The Airdecal sheet is accurate for the scheme it depicts. All the Kings Flight aircraft of the period - DH60, DH80,DH84 and DH89 all had plain dark blue lettering on the wings with no white outline. No, see my post no.28 where I date the photo to 1932. Both the Ronaldsway photos can be dated exactly to between 9 and 11 June 1932 when Prince George visited the Isle of Man. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dave Fleming Posted July 13, 2015 Share Posted July 13, 2015 Picked up the DH60G III Moth Major kit - happy to note it has the raised rear decking, even although none of the subject aircraft have it (But the one I want to do has!) - and avoided a Airfix/Frog conversion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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