Originally Posted By: PA24

Since the Fairey Swordfish was a large torpedo bomber and not introduced until 1936 the Gypsy Moth and the Tiger Moth would have been much more likely........or possibly a Stampe which used DeHavilland wings....



From the introduction in Guy de la Valdene's wonderful book The Fragrance of Grass, his celebration of a life of dogs and hunting partridges: "In the spring of 1932, my mother, a 21 year old strawberry blond, seemingly as comfortable on a horse as in a ballroom, flew her Puss Moth, a small single-engined plane, from London to Paris, then Southeast to Rome, across the Mediterranean to Cairo, and halfway down the east coast of Africa to Nairobi, Kenya. That summer she joined a safari led by Phillip Percival, the handsome and capable white hunter whom Hemingway later celebrated in his short story ""The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber."