Fox-Moth

The Fox-Moth is a de Havilland type, obsolete now; it was produced about 1933.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

I got a Proctor, a single-engined four-seat aircraft, cheap in Egypt as a replacement for the Fox-Moth, which was really much too slow and too short in range for the work we put it to in the Persian Gulf.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

Maybe that's wise with just the Fox-Moth, and in any case, you've got away with it.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

I started in to battle then for another provisional licence for Gujar Singh so that he could carry on in the Fox-Moth while I was in England.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

I had a hunch that if I went there with a Fox-Moth I might make a living.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

Officialdom replied that Flight Sergeant Harrison was licensed for Dakotas, it was true, but not for a Fox-Moth, and I replied that surely to God if he could sign for a Dakota he could sign for a pipsqueak thing like a Fox-Moth.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

I went down to the hangar that afternoon and got into the cockpit of the Fox-Moth with a pencil and a notebook; I had intended for some time to fit a blind flying panel in the instrument board and I wanted to scheme it out.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

He hadn't got a licence of any sort, of course, but I had little doubt that he could get a "B" licence in the lowest category, making it legal for him to carry passengers in the Fox-Moth.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

It wasn't only taking engineers about the country, though I could have used a six-passenger machine on that to supplement the Fox-Moth.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951

I had gone there in a tenth-hand Fox-Moth because I was out of a job and wanted to make some money.

ROUND THE BEND Shute, Nevil, 1899-1960 1951