Talk:De Havilland Gipsy Moth

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Beautiful photo, but hardly typical of the species (a bit of tiger grafting seems to have gone on ;-). Does anyone have something more representative?

Your comment is not helpful to me (the photographer). How is this not a Gipsy Moth? Then I can ensure I don't make the same mistake when I find another photo - Adrian Pingstone 20:14, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

The picture shows a later moth with the Gipsy III or Gipsy Mayor engine. Although it is still a DH60, this variant was called a 'Moth Mayor'. The designation 'Gipsy Moth' was used for the DH60 with the earlier 'cylinders up' Gipsy engines. (The original moth was powered with a cirrus engine and simply called 'Moth' or 'dh60'. The variant with the more powerful Hermes engine was commercialized as the 'Hermes Moth', thus the new model with the Gip[sy engine became the 'Gypsy Moth') To see a good early Gipsy Moth, go to the website of the Science Museum in London (http://www.ingenious.org.uk/See/Transport/Aeronautics/?target=SeeMedium&ObjectID={A07952E9-4D26-F9C4-CDB9-221D4B9C2642}&s=S1&viewby=images&)and view its virtual tour through Any Mollison's 'Jason', a Gypsy moth which she flew from London to south Africa and back. (Note that the plaque on the fuselage still reads 'DH Moth', not Gipsy Moth) Niklas o'Bee 05:20, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

Many thanks for going into such detail - Adrian Pingstone 15:11, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Renaming the article to cover ALL DH60 Moth variants, not just the Gipsy

Speaking of which, I propose to rename the article to 'De Haviland DH60 Moth' and rewrite it to not only include the 'Gipsy Moth', but all DH60's starting with the original Cirrus powered Moth, then the Hermes Moth, Gipsy Moth, X-moth and Moth Mayor. (May be a little note on how the Moth Mayor later evolved into the Tiger Moth...) Niklas o'Bee 05:20, 4 May 2006 (UTC)