de Havilland DH.60 Moth – Fotografie & Videa

de Havilland DH.60 Moth
Země	Uk
Třída	Trenér
První let	22. února 1925
Postaven	Neznámé

Tá de Havilland DH.60 Můra is a 1920s British two-seat touring and training aircraft that was developed into a series of aircraft by the de Havilland Aircraft Company. The DH.60 was developed from the larger DH.51 biplane. The first flight of the Cirrus powered prototype DH.60 Moth (registration G-EBKT) was carried out by Geoffrey de Havilland at the works airfield at Stag Lane on 22 February 1925. The Moth was a two-seat biplane of wooden construction, it had a plywood covered fuselage and fabric covered surfaces, a standard tailplane with a single tailplane and fin. A useful feature of the design was its folding wings which allowed owners to hangar the aircraft in much smaller spaces. The then Secretary of State for Air Sir Samuel Hoare became interested in the aircraft and the Air Ministry subsidised five flying clubs and equipped them with Moths.

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Tá de Havilland DH.60 Můra is a two-seat biplane that was designed and built by the British aircraft manufacturer de Havilland in the 1920s. It was one of the most popular and successful light aircraft of its era, and was used for various purposes such as training, touring, sport flying, and military service. The Moth was based on the earlier de Havilland DH.51, but featured a smaller and lighter airframe, a more powerful engine, and a folding wing mechanism that allowed it to be stored in a standard garage. The Moth was also the first aircraft to use the de Havilland Gipsy engine, a reliable and economical inverted inline four-cylinder engine that became the standard powerplant for many de Havilland designs. The Moth was produced in several variants, such as the DH.60G Gipsy Moth, the DH.60M Metal Moth, the DH.60T Moth Trainer, and the DH.60X Moth Major.
Moth byl exportován do mnoha zemí a provozován různými civilními a vojenskými organizacemi, včetně Royal Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force a United States Army Air Corps. S Mothem létalo také mnoho slavných letců, jako Amy Johnson, která letěla s Gipsy Moth sólo z Anglie do Austrálie v roce 1930, a Charles Kingsford Smith, který použil Gipsy Moth pro první transtasmanský let v roce 1928. Moth byl všestranný a odolný letoun, který mohl dobře fungovat v různých podmínkách a prostředích. Byl chválen pro snadnou ovladatelnost, stabilitu a výkon a mnoho pilotů ho považovalo za radost létat. Moth měl také vliv na vývoj letectví, protože pomohl popularizovat létání jako koníček a sport a inspiroval mnoho dalších lehkých letadel. Moth byl ve výrobě až do roku 1933, kdy byl nahrazen de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth. Nicméně, mnoho Mothů zůstalo ve službě po celá desetiletí poté, a některé stále létají dnes jako drahocenná historická letadla.