Miles Aircraft event on Monday

I dont think our Messenger will be able to attend unfortunately –

BTW that FALCON mascot looks remarkably similar in style to my Blenheim – see earlier thread…

TT

Hairyplane,
I would have liked to have been able to attend the Hawk Speed Six’s birthday party on Monday, especially as I have also have a Hawk Speed Six! Mine depicts the modified canopy used in post-war racing on ‘DGP. Again it’s a little smaller (approx 14 inch span) than the real ‘GP. In this case, rather than my Falcon’s chrome finish, my Speed Six is pure solid wood. I’ve removed it from its stand for the attached photo. I own another example of this model-builder’s craft (a Mew Gull). Returning to the Miles theme however, I thought you might like to see a Messenger I also own (span 12 inches). My fleet includes other 1930s UK types, but pales into insignificance compared with your contributioins with the real thing!

MMMmmmiles

Consul.. you are a friend already!

I am of course very keen to obtain phtographs of my aircraft – especially older ones – so please please please please EMail them to me. Failing that, we have state of the art computer kit here so I can scan and return.

I have pictures of EG’s birthday thank you – did it taste good? It certainly looked very sweet.

I hope you can visit EG in the not too distant future.

In the meantime, I have to relieve you of that car mascot so we need to fix a flight up for you in exchange…..

On the subject of birthdays, EG was built in 36 and then went to Sweden so I plan (again) to take it to Barkaby ( their PFA Rally equivalent) next year to celebrate its 70th.

WW – There is a private event there but certainly nothing to stop Miles Gawpers from visiting visitor-friendly WW. They have a nice restaurant and terrace.

All the best

HP

Sounds like an interesting event. I note that it says a ‘Private Bash’ though.

lovely stuff Tim!

We’ve had a ‘Britain First’ and now your Miles – lot’s of figureheads.

It might not be a full size Miles, but at least you can choose how much petrol it cost you to ‘run’ it! 😀

Hope the WW event goes well, HP. We’ll try and send you some Aussie WX. Fancy a four year drought? 😉

Hairyplane, your message reminds me of another Miles birthday party; one that I attended on 12 April 1986. It was the 50th anniversary of your very own Falcon G-AEEG. I was fortunate enough to be invited to fly down to the event held at Denham and then to fly in EEG as a passenger. The weather was absolutely awful, but we safely made it down from Baginton flying in a Fuji. The flight in EEG at Denham was unforgetable. Sadly it’s the only one of the various Miles types I’ve ever flown in out of 200+ different types of aircraft (mostly vintage) I’ve sampled as passenger.

I was delighted to be reunited with EEG at that party, as I had seen it years before as SE-AFN at Sywell and photographed it often later at Baginton. At the event we met up with Edward Eves who had operated ‘EEG for some years. I have some photos of him cutting a special birthday cake celabrating the aircraft’s birthday. This cake had beautiful icing featuring a picture of EEG. I recently copied one such photo to Julian T. but too late for his recent article about your machine. If you want a copy of that photo (not shown here) or any others then please PM me as I would be happy to let you have them for your files.

At that event I also took shots of EEG nose to nose with Monarch FLW just to contrast their canopy profiles. One such picture is attached here. I took a view of the cockpit interior of the Falcon after my flight, but only using available light, so its a little dark. I include it here so you can see what the interior was like then.

By the way I have a Falcon of my own! It’s contemporary with the build date of yours – but mine’s just a little smaller. It has a span of only about 8.25 ins so is approx 1/48th scale. It is all metal and chromed. It originated as a car mascot – see pictures attached. I love Miles types but this is probably as close as I’ll get to owning one!

HP

What times kick off, If I can get there through the jet lag I will do.

See you Sunday?

White Waltham

Its a few miles to the south-west of Maidenhead.

If the weather precludes, come and find me at Old Warden on a display day and I’ll let you have a good look over my aircraft.

HP

Where abouts is White Waltham? I love Miles aircraft, especially Maggies, im on the Leicestershire/Warwickshire border so hopefully isn’t that far away