{"id":1850,"date":"2015-11-03T14:36:41","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T14:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/?p=1850"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:48:49","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T11:48:49","slug":"tiger-moth-at-imperial-war-museum-duxford","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/tiger-moth-at-imperial-war-museum-duxford","title":{"rendered":"Tiger Moth At Imperial War Museum Duxford"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As the Imperial War Museum Duxford (IWM Duxford) is being featured on the BBC programme, The People Remember, all this week I thought I&#8217;d post a video of a de Havilland Tiger Moth which came in to land at Duxford when we were there in the summer.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A similar aircraft was featured on today&#8217;s show when former &#8216;Spitfire Girl&#8217; Joy Lofthouse reminisced about her service delivering fighter planes to the frontline and flew in a Tiger Moth at the age of 92, briefly taking the controls whilst in the air.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to Harvey&#8217;s grandad&#8217;s surviving log book from the 1930&#8217;s onwards, <strong><a title=\"Cyril Ellen\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbitt.org.uk\/barnesfamilytree\/fam2420.html\">Cyril Ellen<\/a><\/strong> also flew in moths, primarily as a practice aircraft.<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UE0jQaENsW8?rel=0\" width=\"630\" height=\"355\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This video can also be viewed on my YouTube channel at:<br \/>\n<strong><a title=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UE0jQaENsW8\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UE0jQaENsW8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UE0jQaENsW8<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the Imperial War Museum Duxford (IWM Duxford) is being featured on the BBC programme, The People Remember, all this week I thought I&#8217;d post a video of a de Havilland Tiger Moth which came in to land at Duxford &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/tiger-moth-at-imperial-war-museum-duxford\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,10],"tags":[78],"class_list":["post-1850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cine-films-and-videos","category-making-memories","tag-ellen"],"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1850"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1932,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1850\/revisions\/1932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hibbittbarnes.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}