Miles Whitney Straight at Defford Air Day
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Miles Whitney Straight at Defford Air Day
The star of the show at the Defford Air Day last weekend was, without doubt, the Miles Whiney Straight. Very relaxed, friendly fly-in raising funds for MAF and the local Air Ambulance.
Silly Old Git
Maybe somebody will know. I had a go at possibly a Whitney Straight at the Cambridge Private Flying Group in 1962. Whatever it was it used to be operated by Smiths so it had effectively a modern flying panel. Vicious stall characteristics put me off private flying for life.
Ugly looking thing.
There used to be one ( VH-AAT) in the back of the hangar where I worked whilst learning to fly. Edgar Percival got it right when he designed the Proctor/Mew Gull.
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LHR/D: depending on the gravity of your maturity...you will have seen G-AEUJ, still extant, stored Midlands; G-AFGK, which went off in 1977 to US and is now in rebuild in Canada; and/or G-AEWA, which crashed in France in 1961. Or Monarchs G-AFJU, G-AFLW, or G-AIDE (G-AFRZ).
FED: was it a Monarch at Teversham? Smith's Flying Unit had a Gemini.
FED: was it a Monarch at Teversham? Smith's Flying Unit had a Gemini.
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there was another one (ZK-AXD) at the Auckland Flying School at Ardmore during 1965 - was used mainly for private hire.
My memory of it is that it was reasonably fool proof and a pleasant economical cross country machine with that beaut smell of old leather and oil.
Think it finished up as a museum piece somewhere in South Auckland.
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there was another one (ZK-AXD) at the Auckland Flying School at Ardmore during 1965 - was used mainly for private hire.
My memory of it is that it was reasonably fool proof and a pleasant economical cross country machine with that beaut smell of old leather and oil.
Think it finished up as a museum piece somewhere in South Auckland.
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The Airtruk is the most awful abomination of a "flying machine" I have ever seen. In fact none of those I saw were flying, surprise surprise!
The Straights I've seen were G-AEUJ Biggin Hill, May '63 and G-AFGK Lakenheath May '65.
The Straights I've seen were G-AEUJ Biggin Hill, May '63 and G-AFGK Lakenheath May '65.
Matspart3...
Yes, serious.... although I accept that beauty is in the eye etc,etc. It had an ugly one piece windscreen as I remember and from memory only had a gypsy major or maybe a gypsy 6 so would not have had a sparkling performance, certainly not here in Oz in summertime.
So... nice set of wings, pity about the fuselage.
Nomad and Airtruck...yes not pretty but they are utility a/c after all.
Interesting thought....What was available at the time and the relative costs.
Presumeably DH,Miles,Auster and Percival were all flogging their latest and greatest.
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Yes, serious.... although I accept that beauty is in the eye etc,etc. It had an ugly one piece windscreen as I remember and from memory only had a gypsy major or maybe a gypsy 6 so would not have had a sparkling performance, certainly not here in Oz in summertime.
So... nice set of wings, pity about the fuselage.
Nomad and Airtruck...yes not pretty but they are utility a/c after all.
Interesting thought....What was available at the time and the relative costs.
Presumeably DH,Miles,Auster and Percival were all flogging their latest and greatest.
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