Rare footage filmed by Frank Whittle's friend in color. It is a short story about Power Jets, but it also contains a lot of interesting footage, some never published before, including some footage of early testing of the Miles M.52. The video includes never published before bits of Frank...
Hi! Miles M23.
http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4178.0
"M.23 Fighter Projects
In 1941 a proposal was submitted to the Ministry of Aircraft Production for a high-speed single-seat fighter powered initially by a Rolls-Royce
Merlin engine, then in full production, and later by a...
This is going to sound off-topic, but bear with me.
The Miles M.38 Messenger was a STOL light aircraft originally designed as an Airborne Observation Post for artillery spotting and eventually used as a VIP transport and liaison plane.
When the U-Boats seemed to be winning the battle of the...
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world war ii
Hi,
the Miles M.61 was single engined light transport and freighter
aircraft,it had a high wing and rear door,the Miles M.62 was
all metal twin engined version.
http://www.flightglobal.com/PDFArchive/View/1945/1945%20-%200712.html
The HDM 107 is especially interesting, as it isn't even mentioned in R.Paynes "Stuck
on the Drawing Board", whereas the HDM.108 at least is described as a larger variant
of the HDM.106, with 25 seats or as a freighter, powered by two Turbomeca Bastan
turboprops.
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stol
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