Miles M.65 Gemini 1A
 

If that's recent then I'm glad to see it still going. I first saw it at Sywell in 1962.

Most of the footage is from 2013 and some from 2011.

HD - me in 61 - Flying scholarship with Les Hilditch instructing - well shouting most of the time ISTR, especially at my "steep" turns!


IMHO one of the prettiest of aeroplanes

Now if they could remove the engines from the wings and put one of them in the nose, than add another fin and rudder on the centreline station - why they would end up with the perfect flying machine that could land and take off where virtually all other fixed wing jobbies cannot!

Lovely pictures Mauld.
HD: I saw KKH at Tollerton in 1959, adorned with Day-Glo, then not again for 50 years, at Bicester in 2010: it looks better in its new clothes.

Laurence

Rosevidney1,

What a good idea! ;) Of course, they couldn't call it a Single Gemini, that would be a non sequitur.

If it is a STOL machine, fixed gear would be preferable and since it would make a good liaison aircraft and sticking to Miles' naming convention, they could name it the Miles Messenger. A retractable version would need a faster name, so how about Mercury? :cool:

I like your joined up thinking, India Four Two!

The name "Spiller" keeps coming to mind - did he own the Gemini when it was at Sywell in the 60s?

Spiller + Sywell usually equals Messenger G-AKIN

A J Spiller was a well-known racing pilot of the 1950s onward. He flew, among others, Messenger G-AKIN, but I don't recall seeing him associated with G-AKKH.

Laurence

Age marches on - must be confusing the Gemini with the Messenger. Thanks. Now where are my slippers?

Alongside mine!

Laurence

Just looked on the Sywell web site and there is a lot of info there about the Messenger, the Spillers and the Messenger Trust