The Moth, a two-seater airplane launched by Geoffrey de Havilland in 1925, was central to many of the great aviation feats ...

In 1932, he introduced the DH.82 Tiger Moth, a variant of earlier aircraft ... while keeping one eye on controlling the airspeed at around 60 mph (about 15-20 mph above stalling).

Geoff Kubank has been flying Tiger Moth planes since he was 16. This weekend the 77-year-old will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the plane's "grandfather". Journalist at the Newcastle Herald.

Battling gale force winds, followed by fog in her open cockpit, two-place DH.60 Moth, she crossed the English Channel, and after landing near the French commune of Sacy-le-Petit to get directions ...