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Aviation History
1956
1956 - 1223.PDF
369 PowerpUnt ..Span LengthGross weight Max. speed .. Macfctnra Marbore 228ft 27ft... 3,100/3,600 lb 302 m.p.h. Drawing and photograph of model above show Student Powerplant Two Lytamiat GO-480Span 75ft 4in Length 37ft 10mGross weight 8,000 1b Max. speed ... ... 158 m.p.h. Drawing below shows H.D.M.106 Powerplant .. SpanLength Gross weightMax. speed .. Miknn m35ft 23ft 3in ... 935 lb 68 m.p.h. Drawing above and photograph at right show M.L Light Aircraft Mk 1 F. C. MILES, LTD. Shoreham Airport, Shoreham-by-Sea, Sussex. Telephone: Shoreham-by-Sea 2301 Student. Offered with the Blackburn Marbore 2 or Continental J69 turbojet as standardpowerplant, or—alternatively—with two Blackburn Palas 600s, the Miles M.100 Student is a general-purpose light jet trainer. Already a version, designated Mk 3, is foreseen witheither a Rolls-Royce or a Turbomeca turbojet of approximately 1,400 lb static thrust. The Student can operate either as an elementary trainer, with limited navigational and radioequipment, or as a basic trainer, with approximately 400 lb of additional equipment. The unorthodox layout of the machine can be studied in our general-arrangement drawing.The makers claim that it is suitable alternatively as a four-seat communications aeroplane with a range of over 400 miles, and in emergency it could be adapted for ground support.In the latter connection the light wing loading and extraordinarily wide field of view would be particularly valuable assets. The makers believe the entry and exit arrangements on the M.100 to be better than thoseon any other trainer in the world. Larger-than-car doors open directly on to the seats and the floor of the aircraft is only 8in above ground level. It is, in fact, possible to sit directlyon to the seat from the ground. H.D.M.106. An experimental prototype of this interesting new transport project is nowbeing constructed by Miles at their aerodrome factory at Shoreham. It is an Anglo-French venture, the initials H.D.M. signifying Hurel-Dubois and Miles. The idea was to conjointhe aerodynamic advantages of the high aspect ratio wing (in which, of course, Hurel-Dubois excel) with a small but capacious fuselage (15 passengers or a ton-and-a-half of freight)with big rearward-opening doors, thus combining in a small vehicle the commercial advan- tages of freighting as well as passenger-carrying. In its initial (H.D.M.105) experimentalform—in which it will fly next year—the aircraft will be a Miles Aerovan modified to take a new high aspect ratio wing of 75ft span. M. L. AVIATION CO., LTD. White Waltham, Berks. Telephone: Littlewick Green 248 MX. Mk 1. The commercial and military usefulness of an aeroplane which can be packedwhen not in use into a very small space needs no emphasis, and the MX. company's success in the design and testing of their remarkable inflatable rubber-wing aeroplane is of realsignificance. The prototype of a year ago has now been considerably refined and cleaned up, and the rubberized-fabric wing, of delta plan form, no longer presents the "quiltedmattress" appearance of the original. Inflation, at the modest figure of 1 lb/sq in, is now by electric pump instead of by a windmill. Control is by inflated elevons. The fuselagehas been completely redesigned and has tandem seating for a pilot and a passenger.
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