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Welcome to the 2005 Summer Publicity Report heart-rending loss. Many stories are (Brian Lloyd) new material. Forty photographs, many previously unpublished, 344 pages. Costs are kept to a minimum. We rely Copies available from the Maidenhead upon word of mouth and the web site. Heritage Centre by collection at £17.99 Members continue to create interest or by post £19.99 to UK addresses. 3, amongst their own contacts and we ap- Kingsway, King Street, Maidenhead, preciate their efforts and encourage- Berks. SL6 1EE. ment. On BBC on Sunday morning 14th Octo- Engineering Report ber, Andrew Marr’s Programme, he in- (Geoff Etridge) terviewed the author and one of the ATA ladies, Freydis Sharland. She ex- Volume 2 Number 13 Progress continues with the restoration plained the weather was their worst en- of the Miles Martinet, with the manu- emy, much more than the Germans, es- Editorial. facture of the flaps and skinning of the pecially if they had to return to base. (Brian Lloyd) centre section. The cockpit has been 154 ladies flew with ATA and 15 lost completed and the canopy removed to their lives. During the war they were We are very pleased with the response facilitate working inside the cockpit awarded a pay rise and received £6.00 from members who have completed per week. Gift Aid forms. If you are a Tax Payer The wing root ends were now re- (BWL) and have not completed one please covered and the lower section almost send it in or obtain a form from Treas- finished. The bulkhead engine control Handley Page and Miles urer Alan Foskett, or from Membership linkages were being re-manufactured Annual Reunion. Secretary Keith Freeman. An “English Wheel” (a device for the This happy occasion was held at the Chairman’s Report production of double curved ally pan- Museum on the 3rd July with fifty at- (Ken Fostekew) els) was built by the volunteers which tendees, some of whom travelled a fair enabled the complete skinning of the distance to be there. Jean Fostekew did Fourteenth Annual General Meeting nose section of the Miles Student. The her usual superlative job of organising rd held on 3 October 2007. Museum is pleased with the progress the refreshments. The picture shows on this project during the past year and some of the members with the Tail- The Chairman, Ken Fostekew thanked work has now started on the rear end. Plane of the Gyrodyne in the back- members for their attendance and re- ground. It has taken place for the past corded a vote of thanks to Rob Wood The Shop Report twenty years and it was unanimously who had held the position of Treasurer (Margaret Etridge) agreed that it will now be an annually and Company Secretary for a number at the Museum. of years. Also thanks to all of the vo- Progress with sales has been satisfacto- lunteers who kindly give up their valu- ry and when the new shop is completed able time. a review will take place of stock and plan new purchases. Visitor numbers had remained stable during the past twelve months. Manning The Treasurer, Mr. A. Foskett, presen- There are, need I remind you, always ted the accounts which are in good vacancies on the Museum manning ros- health and his report was adopted. ter. The Museum is now operating on its Winter timetable for opening – but The Chairman presented a report about the visitors who come in still have to be the Museum extension construction sold tickets and generally looked after. programme and explained the re-siting Letter of some of the exhibits, so that work New Book. “Spitfire Women could commence. I wonder how many of your of World War II members/visitors remember the Read- Election of Officers took place. Ken ing Sky Observers Club (RSOC) Fostekew, Chairman, Alan Foskett, This is about the ATA and the women which used to meet in the late 1940s Treasurer. The Committee were re- pilots. The author, Giles Whittell has in a shed opposite the Miles Aircraft elected en bloc. Likewise the Trustees. tracked down more than a dozen sur- main gate. vivors of this most exclusive wartime The Chairman concluded the meeting sisterhood and woven their stories into The theme of the time was aircraft re- by thanking everyone for their contin- a riveting account of white knuckle fly- cognition. The clubroom housed rel- ued support. ing, late nights, soaring hopes and ics of Miles aircraft including the fins Museum of Berkshire Aviation Newsletter – Winter 2007 from the M39b-Libellulah. When aircraft ideas, which was published in been wedded to any existing fighter. Miles was on-the -rocks we took over the AIRFIX annual for 1982. In this the Junkers 52-3M for our clubhouse. fascinating article, Michael described The cockpit would be sited well aft. various assorted and novel schemes, The pilot's controls would have been Around the Junkers we assembled which were submitted to the British strangely placed to one side of the various aircraft bits, some of which Government during the second World cockpit. His seat was to be built on a were taken from a hanger next to War by well-meaning citizens. strong frame held on runners located Miles farm. We had the mock-up of on bars extended to the front of the air- the M52, the high lift M18, fuselage However, prior to this article being craft, probably the engine firewall. In from one of the M20s and the Hoopla brought to my attention by Joe Cherrie the fuselage side was an easily remov- flying bomb which we tried to tow in- of the National Museums of Scotland, I able panel which could be opened by a to the air! had no idea of the existence of such cable release, or which flew open as the schemes. I must, therefore, thank Joe pilot's seat shot forward. A seat lock They were great days and I would for bringing this to my attention and would be released by the pilot prior to love to hear from any of the old mem- also give due acknowledgement to Mi- action. Forward normal momentum bers, who knows, even a reunion in chael for his research into the back- would retain the seat in place, but colli- the Museum ground of this particular 'least known sion with another aircraft would imme- of the exotic ideas' which were submit- diately hurl it forward, ejecting the pi- Best wishes - Alan Peacock ted. lot to safety through, it was envisaged, [email protected] the open hatch. A small spring fitted in- Extracts from the article, reproduced to the upright portion of the seat would by kind permission of Michael Bowyer, give the pilot additional momentum, al- follow: though it could cause him serious in- jury. The pilot's parachute would open Rammers automatically or by hand, and he would One of the least known of the exotic fall to safety whilst his specialised air- ideas concerned the 'rammer'. As with craft rammed the enemy. many way-out ideas employing an Ahead of the propeller hub, and on the aeroplane to bring down another by wing tips, steel rammers would be sited ramming, it had its roots in the aerial to ensure maximum destruction. Attack collisions of World War 1. would ideally be from astern. In a 1997 Land Rover Wolf 110, ex milit- frontal attack the pilot would escape by ary - heavily strengthened. Served in During the bad days of 1940 tales abounded of how pilots - particularly forcible ejection prior to impact, al- 30 Signals Squadron in the 250 though debris might engulf him. Gurkha Signals Regiment as a commu- Czechs and Poles - sacrificed their lives by hurling themselves and their nications vehicle. Owned by Carleton The proposal was that rammers were aircraft into the foe. There is little sub- Brown. ideal for the protection of valuable tar- stance in these tales, although some pi- gets. They would have a serious psy- lots on both sides did occasionally ram Royal Berkshire Aviation chological effect upon an enemy know- their enemy. The custom-built rammer, ing that certain death was his even after Society though, remained an untried concept. eluding conventional defences. Loss of A full programme of meetings is prom- Official interest in the idea increased a one rammer for the destruction of a rel- ised over the coming months. few months before the war began. Pre- atively complex enemy aircraft seemed viously, there had been discussion of worthwhile. Rammers might be normal Jan 8: The Museum Honours Board aircraft in disguise. (Jean Fistekew) the ramming concept at the Air Min- istry. A British inventor, Mr. I. Feb 5. AGM + Surprise Specially designed rammers would be Shamah, proposed such a craft to Phil- Mar 4. Arlines and airliners (Brian cheap and easy to build, needing lips & Powis Aircraft Ltd of Reading at Lamb) neither armament nor radio, especially the start of May 1939. Where design Apr 1 Moscow and more (Brian if a rammer flight was led by a fully theory was concerned he had done his Madge) equipped fighter. Pilots could be easily homework, and devised a form of pilot trained and needed no gunnery experi- ejection seat, an item untested in Bri- All Museum Members are very wel- ence. Civilians would know they were tain until 1944. come to come to any of these (and fu- safeguarded by aircraft almost certain ture) meetings. He claimed Patent No.8566 for his to make a kill. idea, proposing a light high-speed Miles 'Rammer' Fighter Phillips & Powis, ever open to revolu- monoplane which could ram an enemy tionary concepts, forwarded the sug- Project of 1939 machine after the pilot had ejected.
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