Miles Hobby
MMMmmm,
Hobby!
THe Miles M13 Hobby (as I read from 'Miles Aircraft from 1925' by Don Brown (Anybody got a spare copy I might beg, steal or....OK... buy?) is certainly a little cracker.
Little it is too.
Built for the 37 Kings Cup, it had a mere 21ft-span/ 78sq ft wing and a retractable undercarriage.
Good for 207mph apparently!
Did it win?
Er.....nope.
Where did it come.
It didn't....
Why?
It wasn't ready in time for the race!
Why?
When they did the retraction tests, the recesses in the wing were in the wrong place.
Ooops.....
By the time they redesigned the wing and rebuilt it, the race had been run.
They came within a gnats winkle of doing it, working day and night.
So near yet so far.
Maybe I should scan the picture and post it on the thread.
However, whilst I can pat my head and rub my (ample) tum at the same time, I havent quite worked out the magic of getting piccies onto Pprune (and please dont try to explain it - I'll just watch the next Harry Potter movie and hope he does it on screen)
Kings Cup - My (ex) Messenger won it in 1954, My Falcon won it in 1979 (better late than never) and my Magister (or at least the registration.....!) came 3rd in nineteen can't remember.
Glad you like my thread guys - lets try to keep it going.
HP