Harold Brooks Miles Falcon G-ACTM Pictures.

Of note, the fuselages of all later Falcons were wider than that of CTM. All the drawings I know of, of Falcon’s are of the later 3 a’s. The wing span remained the same on the prototype, M.3, M.3a and M.3b so this suggests to me that the M3 cabin with it’s single pilots seat perhaps tapered forwards from the rear of the cabin.

John

I think G ACTM most likely started out as a Hawk Major and was modified. I know the Hawk and the Falcon had very similar wings and tail surfaces There is Hawk in canada that flew with the outer wings off a Falcon 6. Im very familiar with the later production Falcons (one of them anyway!) and from these photos to me the fuselage on G ACTM looks a bit hodge podge.. Did G ACTM have a single seat in the rear too? …are there drawings of the falcons in existance? I did some CAD based ones based on measurements i took that im happy to share. I was always under the impression that not much was left of Miles from this period.
Cheers
Michael

I’m afraid that this doesn’t make chronological sense.

Probably because the crash in Egypt occurred on 18 July 1935 (source: A-B British Civil Aircraft Registers 1919 – 1999), rather than 1937. However both Jackson and Brown refer to G-ACTM crashing in November 1936. Was this a second, and possibly terminal, crash?

There are photographs of G-ACTM on p.55 of Vol. III of British Civil Aircraft 1919 – 1972 (Jackson) and p.77 of Miles Aircraft since 1925 (Brown).

Of note, the fuselages of all later Falcons were wider than that of CTM. All the drawings I know of, of Falcon’s are of the later 3 a’s. The wing span remained the same on the prototype, M.3, M.3a and M.3b so this suggests to me that the M3 cabin with it’s single pilots seat perhaps tapered forwards from the rear of the cabin.

John

Thanks for this!
Interesting photo…. What is said to have been the fate of G ACTM? (and its owner)
regards
Michael

Brook attempted another record flight to Cape Town in July 1937, but crash-landed in the dark in Egypt. The Falcon was repaired and kept at Barton for a while in 1936, but its subsequent fate is unknown.

I’m afraid that this doesn’t make chronological sense.

Thank you!

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The page number shows as 173-174 but I had a lot of trouble selecting the link URL which gave the right photo/description…puzzling

Hello Michael, glad you enjoyed.

Longshot, I don’t see the photo there unfortunately although I saw it in another Google Book preview of the book. Can you give me the page number? The publisher was going to let us use the photograph, but I need to provide the page number.

Regards, Peter

This links to the photo page on G-ACTM in ‘A Flying Life’ [for me anyway(I bought it as the e-book), don’t know if it’s universally shared] https://play.google.com/books/reader…PT173.w.2.0.66

Peter,
Thanks for posting these! i had not seen any of these images at all. the prototype falcons fuselage looked quite a bit different to the production version. I wonder why so few pictures seem to exist of this particular aircraft.
cheers
Michael

Hello if you’re stilll reading this. At the new AirHistory.net website we’re preparing an article on the Melbourne race and I’ve found a good photo of G-ACTM in Melbourne.

And this photo is one of a few shots of it during the return flight in the black livery in a Singapore archive.

There’s also a 1936 photo of it in the book A Flying Life by Richard Riding. It is black there without the Ovaltine titles.

Peter

In the old Harborough book The Book of Miles Aircraft there are two pictures, one at the start of the race in what appears to be a Silver finish and one which I understand to be on the return some 5 months later it now has a dark fuselage and Ovaltine logos. there is also a picture of the later scheme in Lewis’s British Racing and Record breaking book (Putnam). Drawings of the Falcon are to be found in the Harborough book and in Scale Models. The Harborough ones are reproduced to a smaller scale in the Peter Amos book

Anyone know the colours.

John

There are a couple of pictures of it in Stuart McKay’s book Mildenhall to Melbourne, although not as it appeared in the race.

T’is I no less! Anyway have sent my data to you.
Keith

Hi Keith
Did you do the FS models of the Miles Falcon? They’re Excellent! im keen on anything you have to share and can read Autocad files too
cheers
Michael

There is not much out there, but first search Flight Global for 23rd August 1934. There a couple of photos over at www.afleetingpeace.org. I have made my own drawing of G-AEEG (an M3A) from which I modified the model of the M3 G-ACTM which I created for Flight Simulator 2004, so if you can read Autocad or even gmax, then can send. Both Models available over at Flightsim.com. P.M. me if any use.
Keith

Correction….I cannot find my model of the M3 prototype over a flightsim, it must have been lost when Britsim folded, but if interested can send it to you.