Prototypes

Don’t forget the M100 Student,(G-APLK, XS941, G-MIOO) currently under restoration to display condition at the Museum of Berkshire Aviation after cartwheeling down the runway at Duxford in 1985

First flight on a Silver City Super Freighter from Lydd to Le Touquet August 1962 accompanied by my (at that time) fiancee and her parents

Although I worked for FG Miles, firstly for 5 years as an apprentice, and later for 6 years in the Mechanical Design office before being transferred to Link-Miles, I have never had the pleasure of a flight in a Miles Aeroplane
Any offers?

Wasn’t there a case (in if I recall the late 80s) of an NWA flight to Frankfurt landing at Brussels in error. Not so much as landing on a taxiway, the flight crew managed to land in the wrong country

GR9s sold to USA

When I suggested in an earlier thread that the Harrier force was being offered for sale to the USMC I was shot down in flames with scorn

I feel somehat vindicated now

Forumites meet at Flying Legends

If you are taking a mobile phone it may be worth while getting some numbers together with people you have PM ed on here ..

Are you volunteering to act as a clearing house, If so I will PM my mobile no to you.

Dai Lee

Eastbourne Airshow

I first wentto Eastbourne six years ago by casr, and spent more time finding somewehere to park rather than watching the Airshow. When I go nowadays I go by train because it is cheaper and the railway station is very near the seafront

I have two resounding memories of Eastbourne. The first was the Harrier, that made a couple of passes over the crowd, who seemed to treat it as just another fast jet until he disappeared behind the pier and reappeared in semi hover mode, and the crowd became speechless, with admiration (partly due to the noise of the Pegasus)

The second memorable occasion was a B747-400 which mde a low pass from west to east, and seemed to take forever to make a 180 turn to fly back down the display line. You could almost hear the EGPWS screaming “Pull Up Pull Up”

If you can’t get to Eastbourne, then Shoreham is worth a visit as many of the propeller driven types use it as their operating base for Eastbourne and often give a mini display on their return to Shoreham after their slot at Eastbourne

Concorde Simulator

The Concorde simulator remains in the building adjacent to the airframe and can actually be ‘flown’, it you pay the fee. Always busy on operational days so booking early is recommended.

I am surprised the Concorde simulator is flyable. When one of my former colleagues at Linlk-Miles saw the sim two or three years ago, he reported that a chainsaw had been used to separate the cockpit wiring from the computer.
Someone must have done a terrific job of rewiring the sim assuming that the wiring/coding lists had all the updates incorporated.