Video showing M18-1 clip from Brian Iles's film of his return flight from RAF Jever to Bulawayo, Africa in his Miles M-18 light aircraft July 1954.. This clip shows the Station Commander Group Captain Powell-Sheddon arriving at the hangar to see off Brian Iles and Sandy Sanderson. It shows them packing the aircraft, a shot of the open cockpit and instruments, the Miles M-18 being pushed out of the hangar, Sandy on one wing tip, the Station Commander receiving a 93 Sqn crest, "pep talk" before strapping in and the prop being swung to start the engine, the taxy out, take-off and low flypast.
Miles M-18: The Miles M-18 was intended as a successor to the Magister, it was a two-seat low wing monoplane featuring a tricycle undercarriage. The first of two prototypes flew in 1938. However, the type did not enter production. (Thanks to "The Encyclopedia of Aircraft" by Robert Jackson).
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