They should get a poll with a bit more meat attached to it. How about [I]The Most Stupid RAF/MoD Procurement Decision Since WWII That’d have much more potential…

Slightly before the end of WW2, The cancellation of the M52 and gifting it to the US.

First Flights

ALL of the early ones!

I concur, but I don’t think it has has happened since the early thirties, and George was the pilot on those occasions when he flight tested the new designs of his brother (FG)

I don’t think it is llikely to happen nowadays unless there is a suitably Qualified constructor of a homebuilt drsign:)

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Only one was built.

A second machine was ‘converted’ into a SAR machine – called ‘Spasatel’ (meaning Rescuer).

The most successful Soviet ekranoplan was the A-90 ‘Orlyonok’ (Sea Eagle) – of which five were built.
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You surprise me at thenlow production Figures
I recall 15 to 20 years ago, reading an article in the sister magazine “Air International” about the Soviet Ekranoplans and the Caspian Sea Monster which certainly implied that more of these were made

Miles Whitney Straight

My 2006 list of Airworthy Miles aircraft shows the following information on M11A Whitney Straights

G-AERV C/No 307 Built 1936 Currently in Rebuild by Ron Souch

G-AEUG C/no 313 Buiilt 1937 Believed to be at Sleap in 2008

I would suggest that more up-to-date information is contained in Peter Amos’ book
Miles Aircraft Vol 1 The Early Years 1925 to 1939 Appendix 19

Miles Master

If a Master is to fly again it would have to be a replica, which presents further questions.

1)
Are there drawings available for manufacture of the airframe

2)
Are there sufficient skilled woodworkers available to manufacture the airframe from scratch. (I would not like to see those already engaged on wooden aircraft restoration diverted from their current projects)

3)
Is there a Kestrel engine available bearing in mind that this engine is also used by the classic Hawker biplanes

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Do you remember the prototype 4 x Alvis Leonides Herald G-AODE. I remember it doing a series of rough field landings at Shoreham in the Late 50s

Replicas

I vaguely remember seeing a 5/8 scale Mustang replica at the Shoreham Airshow in the late 70s to mid 80s, where it was referred to a as a “Gnatsum” (Mustang Backwards)