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.
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Beautiful aeroplane. I've seen two but not the one at Defford (wherever that is).
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Only one flying in the world Bren.
PM me and come up to Turweston and have a flight in her any time............... Regards, Jez |
Was one in Kiwiland in the early 60's
Went for a jolly in it :ok: |
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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.
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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.:D
Emeritus. |
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. |
Tin
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. Blackburn |
tornadoken.
That rang a bell. Thanks. |
Emeritus
'Ugly looking thing.' Are you serious? From the country that bought us the GAF Nomad and the Transavia Airtruk:eek: |
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. |
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. Emeritus |
Blackburn. Yes that must have been it. Thanks .:ok:
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