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- ID
- b315
- Title
- "The Tiger Moth."
- Genre
- Story
- Page Count
- 4
- Word Count
- 5200
- Publisher
- Good Housekeeping (UK)
- Publication Year
- 1972
- Topics
- Pilots, War
Depicting an affair between an airman and a schoolteacher (whose husband is missing in action), this tale hearkens back to Bates's war-time Flying Officer X stories in style, flight accounts, and pilot lingo. "The Lap of Luxury" shares certain features with this story.
In Good Housekeeping UK (London, March 1972, pp. 127-131) and The Song of the Wren (1972).
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