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Aviation History
1942
1942 - 1973.PDF
SEPTEMBER 17TH, 1942 FLIGHT Aviverfrsernents. 29 /Uiiesttrn&s * • # aeroplane that founded a Jashion vide "Aeroplane' 1^0 anyone interested in the History of British aviation, there is romance in the chance landing of the designers of Miles Aircraft on Reading Aerodrome (England), in 1930, when they .dis closed their ambition to build a cheap two-seater low-wing monoplane. The Company at once offered them a corner of a hangar, and on March 29th, 1933,' the first Miles Hawk took to the air. From that moment began the serious production of a series of monoplanes of which the Hawk can truly be said to be the parent. It was an entire breakaway from their previous designs, such as the Martlet (1929) and Satyr (1931), which had all been biplanes, for the designers had come to believe in the monoplane. They staked their reputations on the future of low-wing monoplane design for low i as well as high-power aeroplanes. And with this, their first attempt, they confounded the critics and achieved their aim of providing a reliable, efficient, up-to-date aeroplane for the private owner's purse; That their policy was prophetic has been proved by the success of the civil aircraft and Service trainers which succeeded the Hawk and which culmina ted in the now-famous Miles Master- fast advanced Monoplane Trainer for the Monoplane Pilots of the R.A.F. G/'ve gentrousfy A> JBcn«wcnlFund CONSTRUCTED BY fKULIPS AIRCRAFT POWIS AIRCRAFT LIMITED"; SOMEWHERE .IN ENGLAND M A I R « (Ml)
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