The Twins, again

[DispatchDragon]

Just a shot of Dave Molyneaux's Miles Gemini - Now completeing Beta testing for real - the Air and Config files have been highly tweaked to solve the C/G problems that anyone who downloaded the version i accidently posted at the Pond will be aware of.
contact points improved, Dave has crafted a Narco 12 single nav/com and it will have a Narco ADF - both period pieces , and of of course Don Putnams Cirrus soundfiles, with a couple of extras. Its going to be a very nice bit of kit. Three paints included.

Outbound from Clacton - enroute to the Continent to get some duty frees

Is there weather really this crappy over there this morning??
I was in pouring rain from Cambridge to Clacton and full on IFR




Cheers
Leif

[petermcleland]

Leif,

Is it normal to have those flaps out up there?

[ianhind]

OFFTOPIC

Is there weather really this crappy over there this morning??

Yes rained overnight and was still raining here until less than hour ago - builders have packed up and gone home for the day :-(

Might be brightening up now, but I doubt we are going to match your weather!

[FlyTexas]

She's really coming along nicely. Looking forward to flying her.

Brian

[AllanL]

Leif,

Is it normal to have those flaps out up there?

Peter,

Try this for size:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Miles-M. ... id=0629427

Think of it as the last twin biplane.

She is a little sweetie.

[petermcleland]

Golly!

Yes I see...A very unusual design :think:

[cstorey]

My goodness, Peter, having seen your new avatar, I shall not be arguing with you in the future!

[petermcleland]

Oh deah!...I suppose I do look a bit of a grumpy old man :roll: ...But my bark is worse than my bite ;-)

I have to say that it is exactly what I see in the shaving mirror each morning and it doesn't frighten me too much but I do often wonder where all the years went in such a hurry. You will all know what I mean when you are a bit older and retire...Father Time just gets into his rocket and rushes off at the speed of light :think:

[DispatchDragon]

Peter

I think you need to visit the Messenger and the Gemini, those were (and still are the salient features of both aircraft)
I remember my first flight in a Messenger (from Old Warden) was watching the flaps vibrate on take off and then
how on landing they seemed to extend the chord rather than change the airfoil, must have worked because both aircraft
had an uncommon knack for getting in and out of very short fields, I remember seeing one (Gemini) sitting on the Grass at
Farm Aviations place at Rush Green once upon a time. Dave has modeled them very faithfully, even to the odd little
slat between the engines and the fuselage on the Gemini, and the puckers in the fabric at the forward wingtip caused
by the very large wingtip bow, if you look at photographs of the Gemini you will see it on the underside of the tip just aft
of the leading edge

Leif

[petermcleland]

Leif,

I will look forward to flying them