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Do you have any memories of the Tiger Moth? Let us know below or email your stories to us at: cambridgeshire@bbc.co.uk

Phil Juvet
A lady at my church has loaned me her late husbands log book from his time in the RAF. He was at the 22 E.F.T.S. in Cambridge in August and Sept. 1943 flying Tiger Moths. He went on to fly Cornells, Ansons, Mitchells, and Liberators. Flew missions after the war in India.

GIRARD Jean-louis
I am like mr doug bailey I have just bought a 1/3 scale Tiger moth and I want to find someone that has pictures of this plane.I live in France. Thanks Jean Louis

benjamin phillips
Well I'm only 8 Years old And at our School a Air Air cadet came!

Doug Bailey
I fly remote control and just bought a 1/3 scale Tiger Moth and want to find someone that has pictures of this plane from all sides so I can cover and detail like a full size. Where can I get this or who could I contact.ThanksDoug

CLIFF LEACH
In '43 at Marshall's flying school I was a U/T pilot. If we went solo in under 10 hours instruction we carried on training as pilots. If not, we transfered to training as Navigator. Bomb aimer, I was one of the succesfull ones and finished my training in Oklahoma U.S.A. When waiting for my final "check ride" I was so worried ,my instructor advised me, a non smoker to "have a fag". I have been smoking ever since. (shocking)

JIM EMPSON
Tigers flew from a field behind the Caxton Gibbet and ranged from there over the local area, during ww2. Forced landing practice was one of the training requirements but Leonard Jeffries and I didn't realize this at first- peddling off on our bikes to find the crash! Len eventually learnt to fly [as did I] and bought a Tiger "JJ" . I thought it was like flying a five barred gate - and bought a much more civilized Piper Cub G.BCNX!

Ivor Perry
I remember sitting on an upturned pail watching a circle of Tiger Moths doing circuits and bumps from Marshall's. My father used to take me to his Whitehill allotments from 1938 onwards. At that time there were no buildings between theairfield and allotments. This was preparing for warI also remember going to a Duxford open day at this time.

Mike Payne
I did my first solo in a Tiger Moth in the RAF on 5th November 1952 at what was then RAF Digby when I was 18 - what an experience. I was only a National Service pilot but I can still remember it as though it was yesterday. What a day to do it though!

ray.hazard@virgin.net
At the age of 16yrs and a member of the ATC I was given some flying lessons in a T.M. During this session I was asked to change course using the compass.Unfortunately I was too short to see the top of the instrument.I was then given two parachutes to sit upon in order to carry out the manoeuvre.Great fun which I will always remember.R.E.Hazard.Pe19 1DJ 107

C. John Carter
I am an ex-RAAF WW II Pilot who learnt to fly on Tigers at the 8 Elementary Flying Training School, Narrandera, NSW, AustraliaI am the Secretary of the 8 EF.T.S. ACCOCIATION INC. Visit our web site www.8eftsassociation.org.au