Фотографии
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Регистрационный номер: EC-ACU [2], G-AJEZ [2] EC-ACU c/n 6360 still survives on trestles in storage at Murcia in Spain, not having flown for nearly thirty years. Seen there in February 1995, the colour scheme has at some stage been modified.
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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Регистрационный номер: G-AJKL [2] G-AJKL c/n 6358 seen in a new colour scheme presumably following its rebuild, possibly taken at Skegness in 1963.
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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Регистрационный номер: G-AIDK [2] G-AIDK c/n 6355 at Blackbushe 9.9.64 has its own set of four transportable lightweight chocks positioned back and front on both mainwheels. This aircraft started build as a Messenger I with square rear windows which were retained when it was completed as a civil 2A with Cirrus Major III engine.
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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Регистрационный номер: G-AILI [3] A close-up of the eight-cylinder Praga E installation on G-AILI which resulted in a highly-modified cowling.
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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Регистрационный номер: G-AJFF, G-AOZL G-AJFF c/n 6363 with Auster Alpine G-AOZL at Elstree in the sixties. It has the blown canopy with rounded windscreen of the later production 2A - compare with the near-vertical straight windscreen of the moulded canopy on earlier aircraft. A D/F loop has been fitted above the cabin in a streamlined egg for pilot operation.
Самолёты на фотографии: Auster J/1 - J/5 - Великобритания - 1945Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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Регистрационный номер: G-AJOE [2], RH378 [2] G-AJOE c/n 6367 taking off early in its career in a competition wearing race no.34
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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Регистрационный номер: RH378 [2], G-AJOE [2] G-AJOE, apparently with the engine removed, painted as RH378 at Bembridge, Isle of Wight on 11.10.76 after spending at least three months parked in the open.
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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Регистрационный номер: G-AJFH G-AJFH c/n 6365 seen at Lympne 9.8.59 parked on the brakes. The whip aerial is in the regular position between the handholds. This Messenger was cancelled less than two years later as sold to Liberia in West Africa but no evidence has been found of a subsequent registration or fate.
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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G-AILI was converted back to standard 2A after the Praga trials and became George Miles' personal aircraft, still in its original paint scheme with RAeC badge on the fin.
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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Регистрационный номер: G-AJEY [3] G-AJEY c/n 6359 had a very short career and is seen here being demonstrated by Miles with the company's Sparrowhawk badge just ahead of the windscreen.
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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Регистрационный номер: EC-ACU [2], G-AJEZ [2] An earlier view of EC-ACU. formerly G-AJEZ, with what appears to be a shade inside the canopy roof for protection from the Spanish sun.
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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Регистрационный номер: G-AILI [3], G-AISM Miles Aircraft's demonstrator G-AILI c/n 6362 was fitted in July 1947 with a Czech 150 hp Praga E flat eight engine on a trial basis and is seen hangared at Woodley following the conversion. Behind are two Geminis under construction, the nearest being an almost-complete G-AISM c/n 6454, to the right of which another Gemini fuselage, possibly a mock-up, may be seen apparently fitted with a forward-hinged port cabin door.
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Gemini M.65 / Aries M.75 - Великобритания - 1945Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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Регистрационный номер: G-AILI [3] G-AILI in a later paint scheme now has radio with a wind-driven generator in the port wing leading edge and the exhaust pipe has been extended back under the centre section.
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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Регистрационный номер: G-AJKK Horace Tempest's Messenger 2A G-AJKK c/n 6366 at Lympne 7.8.59. It had a non-standard radio installation with the whip aerial farther back along the fuselage when compared with G-AJFH. This aircraft also carries the Royal Aero Club badge on the fin.
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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Регистрационный номер: G-AKKC G-AKKC c/n 6369 at Blackbushe 10.9.64 in what was probably its final colour scheme.
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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Регистрационный номер: G-AJKL [2] G-AJKL c/n 6358 visiting Wolverhampton in the early 1960s.
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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Регистрационный номер: ZS-AVY ZS-AVY c/n 6368 about which little is known, seen at Germiston in 1949.
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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Регистрационный номер: G-AIDK [2] The cockpit interior of c/n 6355 when new - note the maker's plate giving the c/n, bottom right. The compass is recessed and the four main dials indicate, clockwise from top left, airspeed, turn and slip, RPM and altimeter.
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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Регистрационный номер: G-AJEY [3] The front bulkhead of G-AJEY from which the engine and its mounting were ripped completely out following severe vibration from a broken propeller. With all five occupants moved forward into the front seats, Boulton & Paul chief test pilot Lindsay Neale landed it in a field.
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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Регистрационный номер: G-AJEY [3] G-AJEY after its engineless landing, still in one peice. It appears to have been finally stopped by fence posts which have made holes in the wing leading edges but otherwise looks largely undamaged.
Самолёты на фотографии: Miles Messenger M.38 / M.48 - Великобритания - 1942
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