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Miles Aircraft

Index Miles Aircraft

Miles was the name used to market the aircraft of British engineer Frederick George Miles, who, with his wife Blossom and his brother George Herbert Miles, designed numerous light civil and military aircraft and a range of curious prototypes. [1]

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Aerospace industry in the United Kingdom

The aerospace industry of the United Kingdom is the fourth-largest national aerospace industry in the world and the third largest in Europe, with a global market share of 6.4% in 2016.

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Armstrong Siddeley Mamba

The Armstrong Siddeley Mamba was a British turboprop engine produced by Armstrong Siddeley in the late 1940s and 1950s, producing around 1,500 effective horsepower (1,100 kW).

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Auster

Auster Aircraft Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer from 1938 to 1961.

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Ballpoint pen

A ballpoint pen, also known as a biro or ball pen, is a pen that dispenses ink (usually in paste form) over a metal ball at its point, i.e. over a "ball point".

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Banbridge

Banbridge is a town in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Beagle Aircraft

Beagle Aircraft Limited was a British light aircraft manufacturer.

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Berkshire

Berkshire (abbreviated Berks, in the 17th century sometimes spelled Barkeshire as it is pronounced) is a county in south east England, west of London and is one of the home counties.

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Blackburn Aircraft

Blackburn Aircraft Limited was a British aircraft manufacturer that concentrated mainly on naval and maritime aircraft during the first part of the 20th century.

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Board of Trade

The Board of Trade is a British government department concerned with commerce and industry, currently within the Department for International Trade.

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Brighton City Airport

Brighton City Airport, also known as Shoreham Airport, is an airport located in the parish of Lancing in West Sussex, England.

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De Havilland Gipsy Major

The de Havilland Gipsy Major or Gipsy IIIA is a four-cylinder, air-cooled, inline engine used in a variety of light aircraft produced in the 1930s, including the famous Tiger Moth biplane.

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De Havilland Gipsy Six

The de Havilland Gipsy Six is a British six-cylinder, air-cooled, inverted inline piston engine developed for aircraft use in the 1930s.

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Frederick George Miles

Frederick George Miles (22 March 1903 – 15 August 1976) was a British aircraft designer and manufacturer who designed numerous light civil and military aircraft and a range of prototypes.

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Handley Page

Handley Page Limited was founded by Frederick Handley Page (later Sir Frederick) in 1909 as the United Kingdom's first publicly traded aircraft manufacturing company.

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Handley Page Marathon

The Handley Page (Reading) H.P.R.1 Marathon was a British civil 20-passenger light transport produced by Handley Page (Reading) Limited of Woodley Aerodrome, Reading, England.

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Hansard

Hansard is the traditional name of the transcripts of Parliamentary Debates in Britain and many Commonwealth countries.

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Hawker Hurricane

The Hawker Hurricane is a British single-seat fighter aircraft of the 1930s–1940s that was designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd.

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High Court of Justice

The High Court of Justice is, together with the Court of Appeal and the Crown Court, one of the Senior Courts of England and Wales.

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Historic England Archive

The Historic England Archive is the public archive of Historic England, located in The Engine House on Fire Fly Avenue in Swindon, formerly part of the Swindon Works of the Great Western Railway.

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Hunting plc

Hunting plc is a British-based supplier to the oil and gas industry.

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László Bíró

László József Bíró or Ladislao José Biro (born as László József Schweiger, 29 September 1899 – 24 October 1985) was a Hungarian-Argentine inventor, who patented the first commercially successful modern ballpoint pen. The first ball point pen was invented roughly fifty years earlier by John J. Loud but it did not attain commercial success.

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Link Trainer

The term Link Trainer, also known as the "Blue box" and "Pilot Trainer" is commonly used to refer to a series of flight simulators produced between the early 1930s and early 1950s by the Link Aviation Devices, Inc, founded and headed by Ed Link, based on technology he pioneered in 1929 at his family's business in Binghamton, New York.

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List of Air Ministry specifications

This is a partial list of the British Air Ministry (AM) specifications for aircraft.

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Maxine Blossom Miles

Maxine "Blossom" Miles, born 19 October 1901 as Maxine Forbes-Robertson, was a British aviation engineer, socialite, and businesswoman.

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Miles Aerovan

The Miles M.57 Aerovan was a British twin-engined short-range low-cost transport designed and built by Miles Aircraft.

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Miles Falcon

The Miles M.3 Falcon is a 1930s British three/four-seat cabin monoplane aircraft designed by Miles Aircraft Limited.

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Miles Gemini

The Miles M.65 Gemini was a British twin-engined four-seat touring aircraft designed and built by Miles Aircraft at Woodley Aerodrome.

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Miles Hawcon

The Miles M.6 Hawcon was a 1930s British experimental monoplane designed by Miles Aircraft Limited.

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Miles Hawk

The Miles M.2 Hawk was a 1930s British two-seat light monoplane designed by Miles Aircraft Limited.

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Miles Hawk Major

The Miles Hawk Major was a 1930s British two-seat light monoplane designed by Miles Aircraft Limited.

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Miles Hobby

The Miles M.13 Hobby was a small low-winged monoplane built for racing and research in the United Kingdom just before World War II.

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Miles Kestrel

The Miles M.9 Kestrel was a 1930s British single-engined tandem seat monoplane, intended as an advanced trainer.

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Miles Libellula

Miles Libellula refers to two aircraft designs.

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Miles M.15

The Miles M.15 was a 1930s British single-engined monoplane trainer aircraft with two open cockpits, designed and developed by Miles Aircraft.

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Miles M.18

The Miles M.18 was a single-engine twin-seat low-winged light British civil utility aircraft of the 1930s.

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Miles M.2 Hawk Trainer

The Miles Hawk Trainer was a 1930s British two-seat training monoplane designed by Miles Aircraft Limited.

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Miles M.20

The Miles M.20 was a Second World War fighter developed by Miles Aircraft in 1940.

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Miles M.26

Miles M.26 was the designation used to cover the family of X-series design proposals, for long-range transport aircraft.

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Miles M.30

The Miles M.30 X-Minor was an experimental aircraft, designed by Miles Aircraft to evaluate the characteristics of blended fuselage and wing intersections.

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Miles M.35 Libellula

The Miles M.35 or Miles Libellula was a tandem wing research aircraft built by Miles Aircraft as a precursor to a proposed naval carrier fighter.

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Miles M.39B Libellula

The M.39B Libellula (from Libellulidae, a taxonomic family of dragonflies) was a Second World War tandem wing experimental aircraft built by Miles Aircraft, designed to give the pilot the best view possible for landing on aircraft carriers.

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Miles M.52

The Miles M.52 was a turbojet-powered supersonic research aircraft project designed in the United Kingdom in the mid-1940s.

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Miles M.64 L.R.5

The Miles M.46 L.R.5 was a two-seat light aircraft, designed in the United Kingdom, for private and club use in 1944-1945.

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Miles M.68

The Miles M.68 was a 1947 attempt to produce a containerised freighter aircraft by the modification of the Miles Aerovan.

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Miles M.76

In 1947 a British Gliding Association design competition, for a two-seat sailplane, was won by Hugh Kendall, Miles' assistant test pilot.

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Miles Magister

The Miles M.14 Magister is a British two-seat monoplane basic trainer aircraft built by the Miles Aircraft for the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm.

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Miles Martinet

The Miles M.25 Martinet was a target tug aircraft of the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm that was in service during the Second World War.

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Miles Master

The Miles M.9 Master was a British two-seat monoplane advanced trainer built by Miles Aircraft Ltd for the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm during the Second World War.

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Miles Mentor

The Miles M.16 Mentor was a 1930s British single-engined three-seat monoplane training and communications aircraft built by Miles Aircraft Limited.

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Miles Merchantman

The Miles Merchantman was a scaled-up and four-engined development of the Miles Aerovan light freighter.

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Miles Mercury

The Miles M.28 Mercury was a British aircraft designed to meet the need for a training and communications plane during the Second World War.

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Miles Merlin

The Miles M.4A Merlin was a 1930s British five-seat cabin monoplane built by Miles Aircraft Limited.

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Miles Messenger

The Miles M.38 Messenger is a British four-seat liaison and private owner aircraft built by Miles Aircraft.

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Miles Mohawk

The Miles M.12 Mohawk was a 1930s British two-seat, tandem cabin monoplane built by Phillip & Powis Aircraft (later to become Miles Aircraft) to the order of Charles Lindbergh in 1936.

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Miles Monarch

The Miles M.17 Monarch was a British, light, touring aeroplane of the 1930s.

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Miles Monitor

The Miles M.33 Monitor was a twin-engined British target tug aircraft designed and built by Miles Aircraft towards the end of the Second World War.

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Miles Nighthawk

The Miles M.7 Nighthawk was a 1930s British training and communications monoplane designed by Miles Aircraft Limited.

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Miles Peregrine

The Miles M.8 Peregrine was a 1930s British twin-engined light transport monoplane designed by Miles Aircraft Limited.

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Miles Satyr

The Miles M.1 Satyr was a 1930s British single-seat aerobatic biplane designed by F.G. Miles and built for him by George Parnall and Company.

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Miles Sparrowhawk

The Miles M.5 Sparrowhawk was a 1930s British single-seat racing and touring monoplane designed by Miles Aircraft Limited.

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Miles Sparrowjet

The Miles M.77 Sparrowjet was a twin-engined jet-powered racing aircraft built by F.G. Miles Limited by fitting Turbomeca Palas jets to the prototype Miles Sparrowhawk.

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Miles Student

The Miles M.100 Student was built as a lightweight trainer as a private venture by F.G. and George Miles with development started in 1953.

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Miles Whitney Straight

The Miles M.11 Whitney Straight was a 1930s British two-seat cabin monoplane with dual-controls.

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Mockup

In manufacturing and design, a mockup, or mock-up, is a scale or full-size model of a design or device, used for teaching, demonstration, design evaluation, promotion, and other purposes.

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Nashua Corporation

The Nashua Corporation (NASDAQ: NSHA) is an American company headquartered in Nashua, New Hampshire that makes labels, specialty papers, and imaging products and services.

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Newtownards

Newtownards, is a large town, townland and civil parish in County Down, Northern Ireland.

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Prima facie

Prima facie is a Latin expression meaning on its first encounter or at first sight.

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R.A.E. – Vickers Transonic Research Rocket

The R.A.E. Vickers Transonic Research Rocket was developed from the Miles M.52 a British supersonic research aircraft a project which was undertaken in top secrecy between 1942 and 1945 to a Ministry of Supply specification E.24/43.

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RAF Long Kesh

Royal Air Force station Long Kesh or more simply RAF Long Kesh was a Royal Air Force station at Maze, Lisburn, Northern Ireland.

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Reading College

Reading College is a further education college based in Reading, Berkshire, England.

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Reading, Berkshire

Reading is a large, historically important minster town in Berkshire, England, of which it is the county town.

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Redhill Aerodrome

Redhill Aerodrome is an operational general aviation aerodrome located southeast of Redhill, Surrey, England, in green belt land.

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Rolls-Royce Limited

Rolls-Royce was a British luxury car and later an aero engine manufacturing business established in 1904 by the partnership of Charles Rolls and Henry Royce.

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Short Brothers

Short Brothers plc, usually referred to as Shorts or Short, is an aerospace company based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

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Singer Corporation

Singer Corporation is an American manufacturer of sewing machines, first established as I. M. Singer & Co. in 1851 by Isaac Merritt Singer with New York lawyer Edward Clark.

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Sir William Mount, 2nd Baronet

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir William Malcolm Mount of Wasing Place, 2nd Baronet TD (28 December 1904 – 22 June 1993) was a British Army officer, High Sheriff of Berkshire and grandfather to David Cameron, former UK Prime Minister and leader of the Conservative Party.

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Smiths Group

Smiths Group plc is a British multinational diversified engineering business headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Southern Martlet

The Southern Martlett was a single-engined, single-seat biplane sports aircraft.

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Sperry Corporation

Sperry Corporation (1910−1986) was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the 20th century.

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Tandem wing

QAC Quickie Q2 A tandem wing aircraft has two main wings, with one located forward and the other to the rear.

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Target tug

A target tug is an aircraft which tows an unmanned drone, a fabric drogue or other kind of target, for the purposes of gun or missile target practice.

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The National Archives (United Kingdom)

The National Archives (TNA) is a non-ministerial government department.

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Thomas Rose (RAF officer)

Thomas Rose (27 January 1895 – 20 June 1968) was a British flying ace in World War I, credited with 11 victories.

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Titanine Ltd.

Titanine was an aviation coatings (Aircraft dope) originally manufactured by Holzapfels, Ltd., of Newcastle, at their Felling-on-Tyne works, where they had been carrying on business as manufacturers of anti-corrosive paints and varnishes for marine purposes.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Woodley, Berkshire

Woodley is a town and civil parish in Berkshire, England.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Aircraft

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