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Old 02-20-2011, 07:02 PM
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Originally Posted by David603 View Post
A while back I saw a Tiger Moth take-off from an airport. Going on Google maps shows where I was standing was 4km from the runway. I was immediately able to identify it as a Tiger Moth and see its color (bright yellow, which probably helped a bit )

My eyesight is quite good but not the best (16-12) but in Il2 at that range all I would have been able to see would have been a dot.
".....where I was standing was 4km from the runway. I was immediately able to identify it as a Tiger Moth...."

What other biplane types might you have been expecting?

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