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The Tiger Club Turbulent Display Team
Taken at the Henham Wings and Wheels 2009.
The four D31 Turbulents are put through their paces by the Tiger Club Turbulent Display Team.
The first example of Roger Druine’s aircraft flew in 1953, and such was the appeal of the Turb’s open cockpit and exuberant nature that by 1959 British versions had made themselves at home with the Tiger Club.
Powered by a 1600cc engine, weighing around 350lbs empty, and with a wingspan of just a little over 21ft, the Turb is little more than a flying motorbike!
The D31 Turbulent was built by Rollason Aircraft & Engines in Croydon.
Roger Druine called his aeroplane ‘a design for youth‘, but it’s probably nearer the mark to say that it’s a design for keeping pilots young - it’d be a very dull flyer indeed who didn’t return from a flight in a Turb without a grin from ‘ere to there!
Their display was a fantastic mix of low-level formation flying, flour-bombing, balloon-bursting and limbo-flying and is virtually unique on the airshow circuit today.
turbteam.com/The Turbulent/The Turbulent.htm
“Only the French could design an aeroplane so pretty,” said one airshow commentator at Valenciennes, “and only the English would fly it like this! ”
The Tiger Club Turbulent Display Team
Taken at the Henham Wings and Wheels 2009.
The four D31 Turbulents are put through their paces by the Tiger Club Turbulent Display Team.
The first example of Roger Druine’s aircraft flew in 1953, and such was the appeal of the Turb’s open cockpit and exuberant nature that by 1959 British versions had made themselves at home with the Tiger Club.
Powered by a 1600cc engine, weighing around 350lbs empty, and with a wingspan of just a little over 21ft, the Turb is little more than a flying motorbike!
The D31 Turbulent was built by Rollason Aircraft & Engines in Croydon.
Roger Druine called his aeroplane ‘a design for youth‘, but it’s probably nearer the mark to say that it’s a design for keeping pilots young - it’d be a very dull flyer indeed who didn’t return from a flight in a Turb without a grin from ‘ere to there!
Their display was a fantastic mix of low-level formation flying, flour-bombing, balloon-bursting and limbo-flying and is virtually unique on the airshow circuit today.
turbteam.com/The Turbulent/The Turbulent.htm
“Only the French could design an aeroplane so pretty,” said one airshow commentator at Valenciennes, “and only the English would fly it like this! ”