Miles M.71 Merchantman
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- Welcome to this Tales From the Hut & Hangar - Aviation Rarities episode.
This is about the Miles M.71 Merchantman a one-off cargo or 20 seat passenger utility aircraft.
Please take a look at others in this series:
• Aviation Rarities - Ta...
Miles M.71 Merchantman cutaway & details: drive.google.c...
Watch about the Aerovan here: • Miles Aerovan
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Recorded very late December 2023 @ BTR&DS W-s-M
So it has been four months since this channel started. This is the final Tales From the Hut & Hangar video for 2023. Thanks for viewing & all the nice feedback - Best Regards Keith Brooks
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Very interesting aviation history. Thanks a lot.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it
Mile Magister was the first aircraft I ever flew in.
Denham Airfield back in the 1950s
Miles was a great little company , it's a great pity that post was governments failed to support firms like them.
Agree
A clever design. And a rare aeroplane
Looking fwd to the Aerovan episode
One cannot but think that this aircraft gave some inspiration to Shorts when designing the Skyvan/ 330/360 but they had the advantage of having a proven turbine available. Cessna now re-inventing the wheel with Sky Courier.
Not many variations on designing a box with wings so they will come out looking the same. The need is here again. I think an updated modernised Short 330/360 would do very well today. Basic, bulletproof, reliable & low cost to operated.
I agree although the small package market and the advent of the LD3 container have changed the landscape. Sherpa was the best and cheapest solution for transporting fighter engines and there is nothing comparable to replace it short of the C27J
It's like they were trying to make an aerial Transit van. Shame it never caught on.
Google Shorts Skyvan.
@@JBofBrisbane according to some the Short Skyvan was derived from the Miles Aerovan and is part of the machinations that led to the collapse of Miles Aircraft.
F G Miles approached Shorts to build the Hurel-Dubois Miles HDM.105 which had very high aspect ratio Hurel-Dubois wings. Shorts were given access to design & development data but subsequently turned down the contract and developed the Skyvan instead.
Some say Shorts bought the design but that doesn't tie-in with what was said among Miles employees who were "in the know"
Thanks for this. Information on these, undeservedly obscure, aircraft is greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Great video. Thanks for posting.
Thanks
The concept must have been used in the Short skyvan.
While a great concept, that looks like a heck of a lot of late 1940’s engines for a single pilot to manage on a plane full of passengers… as soon as anything stopped going to plan the workload would be insanely high for a single pilot to safely manage.
Nice content, I look forward to watching more.
Good point & thanks
Miles was a prolific designer and producer of aircraft during the war,constructed out of wood due to the shortage of metal. Trainer aircraft,the Miles Master used by the RAF,and a larger one,Miles Magister. Big deal made about the Mosquito with wooden construction,but Miles was ahead of them. Underhand machinations probably finished his business,something which happened a lot after the war finished. We lost a great designer,with a load of potential.
Lovely aircraft!
nice
@@jamesrodrigues7391 Thanks
Ah so that's why the Short Skyvan looks like it does... ;-)
No Shorts just add wings fin and tailplane to a garden shed. They did it for a bet whilst drunk.
Someone should copy their basic design, upgrade everything to current, give it a hip, contemporary-sounding name, wild paint job and low-ish price to go with easy flying characteristics and low fuel consumption. That tail won't do, however.
I think it was a sound design and could be updated. Aircraft are sold for economics. Not paintjobs and names 😉
Do I see a rear hinged cockpit door? Very strange. I've owned a 1951 Studebaker and a 1968 Lincoln with "suicide" rear doors. Not a great idea for passenger cars, an even worse idea for aircraft.
No not the best idea
Yikes. That is one ugly aircraft. Great video though. I really enjoy hearing about aircraft I've never seen before.
Ah I liked it! Thanks!
Inspired by the Arado Ar 232?
I don't think so. If you design a cargo aircraft. there are only limited ways you can design it. So they will look similar.
neat ... there was a clip of a miles aerovan from a film , movie set in africa ... it used to be on you tube ,,, but can not find it now - anyone know of this 1960s film - great shots of the aerovan in the film .
Thanks. Sorry l don't know about the film
Great video, of a type that seems like a huge missed opportunity.
Thanks