Miles M.65 Gemini / M.75 Aries
Варианты:
Miles - M.65 Gemini / M.75 Aries - 1945 - Великобритания
Страна: Великобритания
Год: 1945


Twin-engined four-seat Cabin monoplane
Описание
Фотографии
Miles M.65 Gemini и M.75 Aries

   Двухмоторный M.65 Gemini с убираемым шасси был дальнейшим развитием самолета Messenger. M.65 выполнил первый полет 26 октября 1945 года. Он стал последним массовым самолетом конструкции Ф.Дж. Майлза. На Gemini Mk IA ставились моторы Blackburn Cirrus мощностью по 100 л.с. (75 кВт), крыло оснащалось фиксированными закрылками. Построили только один самолет варианта Mk IB с выдвижными закрылками. На единственном Gemini Mk 2 стояли моторы Continental мощностью по 125 л. с. Серийные Gemini Mk 3A оснащались моторами de Havilland Gipsy Major 10 мощностью по 145 л. с. Эти Mk 3A строились в нескольких подвариантах, несколько отличных друг от друга. Два самолета собрали с моторами Blackburn Cirrus Major III мощностью 155 л. с., конструкция была усилена, а площадь вертикального оперения увеличена. Этот вариант обозначался уже как M.75 Aries.
   Всего построено 170 самолетов Gemini и два в варианте Aries. Две трети из выпущенных Gemini поставлено на экспорт компанией "Miles" до ее банкротства в 1947 году.
M.65
Gemini стал последним самолетом, массово выпускавшимся заводом "Miles" в Вудли. Этот G-AGUS продали в Швецию частному лицу, в 1957 году самолет перерегистрировали как SE-BUY.
A unique Miles Gemini trio near Wroughton on June 28, 1987. G-AISD, G-AKHP and G-AKKB were being flown by John Homewood, Peter Lee and Jim Buckingham respectively.
One of the few Miles Geminis still in airworthy condition. Out of a total of 170 Geminis built less than a handful of airworthy examples survive. G-AKKB is currently owned by SAC Technology Group Ltd and together with the company's Miles Messenger RG333 is available for air display work for the 1985 season.
Miles M.65 Gemini 1A G-AKKH
A lovely study of Jim Buckingham at ease in his immaculate Miles Gemini, G-AKKB.
View of the prototype Gemini, taken in 1946. Note the fixed undercarriage and the large square rear cabin windows, peculiar to the prototype.
The Miles Gemini Four-seat Cabin Monoplane (two 100 h.p. Blackburn Cirrus-Minor II engines).
View of the prototype Gemini, taken in 1946. Note the fixed undercarriage and the large square rear cabin windows, peculiar to the prototype.
With the swing-over canopies for the cockpit and rear compartment open, S.7 I-EFFE is pushed out of the hangar at Redhill in preparation for Maurice Smith’s flight in August 1951. In the background is Miles Gemini G-AGUS, fitted with Continental engines. Smith stated that a Miles Aries was used for the air-to-air photography.
G. W. Harben’s Elstree-based G-AHKL was the sixth Gemini to be certificated.
G-AIDO, the second Gemini registered, was designated 1A; it had a retractable undercarriage and oval-shaped rear cabin windows.
G-AIRS was one of two Geminis operated by the Ministry of Civil Aviation.
Gemini 1A G-AISD was another visitor to Wroughton. It has recently been rebuilt at Exeter after returning to the UK from Belgium where it had been registered OO-RLD
An unexpected visitor to Guernsey during John’s island-hopping excursion was Miles Gemini 1A G-AISO (c/n 6326), which had been acquired brand-new by Woodley-based Air Contractors Ltd four months previously. By the end of the year, the Gemini had been purchased by Airwork at Blackbushe. It later went to Australia, where it crashed as VH-BDC in June 1962.
Gemini 1A G-AJZJ was an early member of Derby Aviation's charter fleet and one of several aircraft acquired from Kenning Aviation when it ceased operating in 1948. It is illustrated at Skegness on the Lincolnshire coast in 1964.
Gemini 1A G-AKEG was converted to a Mk 3C in 1958. It was supposedly eaten by sheep in the Sixties!
Ernest Crabtree at the near vertical in his Gemini 3C G-AKEG.
A former WAAC Marathon undergoes deep maintenance and upgrading prior to entering service with Derby Aviation. In the background are Gemini 1A G-AKGE, Hawk Trainer G-AIUA and Chipmunk WP908 of Nottingham University Air Squadron.
Gemini 1A G-AKHP was one of three of the type which visited the Air-Britain Air Rally at Wroughton 27/6/87
Recent photograph of Miles Gemini G-AKKB, taken by BOB EVANS.
Miles M.65 Gemini 1A G-AKKH
Miles M.65 Gemini G-AKKR, one of a handful of airworthy examples of a dying breed.
The concours d’elegance at Ingoldmells, which served the Butlin’s holiday camp at Skegness, in August 1950, including Miles Gemini 1A G-ALUG (c/n 6320), owned by the one-armed Dr James Daly, and Miles Messenger G-AKKK (c/n 6712), based nearby at Boston (Wyberton). In the background are McAlpine’s de Havilland Dragon Rapide G-ALBC and Bond Air Services’ D.H.86B G-ADVJ.
Miles Gemini G-ALUG, in the foreground here, won the concours d’elegance at the 1950 rally, and was flown by Dr J.P. Daly, who, according to the Skegness Standard, “has only one arm, having lost his left arm some time ago ... he has a special metal attachment to handle flying instruments”. Behind the Gemini is Miles Messenger G-AKKK.
В 1950 году компания "Shell" заменила самолет Proctor, на котором Бадер летал четыре года, на Miles Gemini. На этой машине, оснащенной моторами Gypsy Major в 120л. с. (89,5 кВт), Дуглас продолжал летать по делам компании, часто в сопровождении своей жены Тельмы и собаки Шаум.
Douglas Bader seated in a Miles Gemini with Sdn Ldr Nelson, a one-legged pilot, during a visit to the Miles factory in the winter of 1946/7.
Not "invasion stripes", but black-and-white identification stripes for Norwegian Army anti-aircraft gunners to observe when this A/S Sorfly-Kjevik-based - Miles M.65 Gemini tows flak banner targets . The missing registration letter is "H" - LN-TAH was built at Woodley in 1947 (c/n. 6528, G-AKKA).
Some of the lighter types on view at Duxford before the Christie's auction. Moth Minor, Tiger Moth and Gemini nearest.
An all-too-rare sight - a British civil twin aircraft in quantity production - Geminis in the making at Woodley, a sight that must have pleased the Miles brothers.
M.75
Вариант M.57 Aries с усиленной конструкцией оснащался более мощными моторами в сравнении с M.65. Всего построили два таких самолета.
Now in Australia in a beautiful red and cream colour scheme is the Miles M.75 Aries. It was previously G-AMDJ. c.n. 75/1002.
 
Two views of the cockpit and panel of the prototype Miles Gemini. The designers introduced luxury motor car comfort in their "heavenly twin”. Cabin noise during flight was comparatively low, and visibility for the pilot was excellent.