Miles M52

[BritJet]

I built this about 15 years ago and if fought me all the way due to the very small contact surfaces for all the flying surfaces. Eventually it was finished and sitting on a shelf for a while before taking a short vertical flight which required a rebuild and repaint. When that was done it sat on the shelf for another couple of years before I noticed the fuselage had bulged and cracked due to a reaction between the lead nose weight and the PVA I'd used to hold it in place. Lesson learnt - don't do that again! This is how it looked......

 

  
  
  

 

No chance of getting another kit as it's long out of production, so back onto the workbench for another rebuild, repaint and new decals;

 

 

Thanks for looking.

 

Steve

[Linus]

Very nice job, sorry for a little bulged and cracked, with patience you could fix it!!! Anyway compliments!!!! GREAT!!! Linus

[cngaero]

That's a superb M.52. At least your's flew, unlike the prototype.

[BritJet]

Thanks, I would have binned it if I could have replaced it, so rebuilt it had to be! Not flying the Miles 52 was definitely one of many blunders in British aviation.

 

Steve