Miles Falcon G-ADTD
Does any forum member have any information, recollection or photographs of Miles Falcon Six G-ADTD which crashed into the sea off Angmering, West Sussex, on 21 September 1962 killing its pilot, Geoffrey Marler, and destroying the aeroplane?
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Photograph here:
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1062963/ Brief info here: http://members.aol.com/warwicaero/mi...t/m03afhis.htm Falcon Six M. 3B(D) 255 G-ADTD Crashed Thruxton England 1962 Known History: CoA issued to Maddox Airways Ltd, Brooklands on the 4th February 1936; To Vickers Aviation Ltd, Brooklands in February 1936; During 1939-45?, Vickers communications aircraft during war. When modified to M.3D standard, it became Miles communications aircraft.; To Miles Aircraft Ltd, Woodley in February 1946; To R.S. Turner, Woodley in May 1948; To Wiltshire School Of Flying Ltd, Thruxton during February 1951; To G.C. Marler, Thruxton in May 1959; On the 21st September 1962 it crashed when it hit a tree, and went into the sea off Angmering, Sussex. Owner, Geoffrey Marler was killed in the crash; |
Thanks S'land. I've got the basic information - that which is available on the web; local newspaper reports; some contempory recollections; and suchlike. What I had hoped is that someone on the forum - probably no spring chicken now - might be able to add, from their own knowledge, to what little there is recorded about Geoffrey Marler, this Falcon or the demise of both in 1962.
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I went to a prep school (Ladycross, awful place) in Seaford, Sussex 1967-1971. One of the boys, Marler's (IDR his first name) dad was said to have died in an airshow crash. I'm guessing Cecil Geoffrey Marler was his dad. He was a couple of years older than me, super nice kid, with a big mop of curly hair.
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I suspect that your schoolmate would have been either Christopher Marler (who would have been about 11 in 1967) or Nicholas Marler (who would have been about 9 in 1967).
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I am sorry for the diversion, but I have had a question mark in my my mind about a Miles Hawk Speed Six in Lincolnshire around 1957. I had almost finished a Vampire Course at RAF Swinderby when someone on the course talked me into investing twenty quid in a Taylorcraft plus 6 which was owned by a local plumber and was kept in a hangar at an old bomber airfield at Bardney. A Miles Hawk was the only other aircraft in the rather tatty old hangar and was owned by the Sports Club of a Doncaster Steel Works, I think. Anyway, we tried to contact the club boss, but failed. Had we succeeded we would have asked for permission to fly the Miles Hawk Speed Six. I would love to know what happened to what looked like a beautiful aircraft.
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John; it's a hangar not a hanger.
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Corrected Jock.
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It's in one of the hangars at the Shuttleworth Collection.
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Thanks, I really liked the look of that aircraft!
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Miles Hawk Speed Six | Shuttleworth Miles didn't build too many ugly aeroplanes!
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This history forum has more information http://sussexhistoryforum.co.uk/index.php?topic=730.0
Richard Just noticed that the original request for info was way back in 2008. |
Re: The Miles Hawk Speed Six.... Only three were built. G-ACTE was exported in Sept 37. G-ADOD crashed at Gwelo in Southern Rhodesia in October 36.
This leaves G-ADGP which is, of course, still extant. However in 57 it was in the ownership of Ron Paine. Possible it could have been in a "tatty hangar" at Bardney but I have my doubts....In 57 there were still quite a few Hawk Trainers around: more likely it was one of these.....(in my opinion) !!. |
But would a Hawk Trainer qualify as a "beautiful aircraft" as remembered by the poster?
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I can’t remember if it had one or two seats, but the owner of the Taylorcraft reckoned it was a Hawk Speed Six. Anyway we were more interested in getting The Taylorcraft/Auster airborne after filling up with two jerrycans of petrol. After all, we were meant to be jet pilots!
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Originally Posted by VictorGolf
(Post 11026212)
But would a Hawk Trainer qualify as a "beautiful aircraft" as remembered by the poster?
"""Miles didn't build too many ugly aeroplanes! "" OK.....Try the Miles Aerovan.....!!! |
The Shuttleworth Hawk Speed Six was apparently being boxed-up to be shipped to USA in the 90s when Roger Mills (a gentleman deserving of his own thread with many tales to tell) intervened.
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Originally Posted by Dan Dare
(Post 11026311)
The Shuttleworth Hawk Speed Six was apparently being boxed-up to be shipped to USA in the 90s when Roger Mills (a gentleman deserving of his own thread with many tales to tell) intervened.
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