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JANUARY 8TH, 1942. FLIGHT Advertisements, 25
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A S far back as 1935 the designers of Miles light ^"monoplanes had foreseen the need of the R.A.F. for low-wing monoplane trainers to provide training on aeroplanes with similar characteristics to the operational aircraft of monoplane design. The first stage in the development of their theory was the adaptation of a Miles Hawk Major as a primary trainer.
But by 1937 their plans were complete for an advanced trainer for pilots of aeroplanes in the Hurricane and Spitfire class. It embodied the Rolls-Royce Kestrel engine of 745 h.p. and appeared at the R.A.F. Hendon Display in that year. In the meantime the Magister, a natural development of the Hawk Trainer,
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was in production. This monoplane trainer was again accepted by the R.A.F., the Irish, New Zealand and Turkish Air Forces. It is in use at primary training schools in South Africa, Egypt, Latvia, Estonia, India, Australia, etc.
The acceptance of Miles Training Aircraft by the R.A.F. was an achievement that amply justified the designers' faith in their beliefs, when it is realised that the British Govern-ment's policy since 1922 was against wooden
aircraft of any type. All Miles Aircraft to date are of
all-wood construction, even the now-famous Miles Master-fast advanced Monoplane Trainer for the Monoplane Pilots of the R.A.F.
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