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Museum of Berkshire Aviation

Museum of Berkshire Aviation

Handley Page Herald

Handley Page Herald
Handley Page Herald
Handley Page Herald
Handley Page Herald

Handley Page Dart Herald

In the mid-1950s Handley Page developed a new fast short-range regional airliner, intended to replace the older Douglas DC-3, particularly in third-world countries. The design, originally known as the HPR.3 Herald, emanated from the drawing office at Handley Page (Reading) Limited—the former Miles Aircraft factory site, which had developed an earlier airliner design, the Miles Marathon. The Herald was an extensive re-development of the original concept of the Marathon, notable for its high mounted wing. Handley Page Reading succeeded in producing a modern design with excellent flight and performance characteristics.

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Handley Page Herald
Handley Page Herald
Fairy Gannet

Fairy Gannet

The Fairey Gannet

The Fairey Gannet is a carrier-borne aircraft that was designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer the Fairey Aviation Company. It was developed for the Royal Navy, being the first fixed-wing aircraft to combine both the search and strike portions of anti-submarine warfare (ASW) operations to be operated by the Fleet Air Arm (FAA).

The Gannet was originally developed to meet a Second World War era requirement for a dual-role ASW and strike to equip the FAA.[3] It was a mid-wing monoplane with a tricycle undercarriage and a crew of three, with a double turboprop engine driving two contra-rotating propellers. On 19 September 1949, the prototype Gannet performed its maiden flight. Four years later, it was brought into regular service with the FAA. The service would use the type from the majority of its aircraft carriers throughout the Cold War. Various export customers were also secured for the Gannet, including the Royal Australian Navy, the German Navy, and the Indonesian Navy, most of these operating the aircraft exclusively from land bases.

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Miles M.14A Hawk Trainer 3 (Magister)

Miles M.14A Hawk Trainer 3 (Magister)
Miles M.14A Hawk Trainer 3 (Magister)
Miles M.14A Hawk Trainer 3 (Magister)

Miles M.14A Hawk Trainer 3 (Magister)

This beautiful constructed replica originally started life as Miles M. 14A Magister, serial number T9841, with c/n 2078, being one of the last batch of 300 Magister I aircraft delivered from Woodley between May 1940 and January 1941. It was first used by No. 16 EFTS and then by No. 11 EFTS before being sold to BOAC for use by their Speedbird flying club on 8th June 1948. Registered as G-AKKY it flew until being withdrawn from use in November 1964. G-AKKY languishing for many years during which time the fuselage and centre section was destroyed.

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Olympia 465
Olympia 465

Olympia 465

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see here for the story behind this particular exhibit.

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Fairey Jet Gyrodyne

Fairey Jet Gyrodyne

The Fairey Jet Gyrodyne

The Fairey Jet Gyrodyne is a British experimental compound gyroplane built by the Fairey Aviation Company that incorporated helicopter, gyrodyne and autogyro characteristics. The Jet Gyrodyne was the subject of a Ministry of Supply (MoS) research contract to gather data for the follow-up design, the Rotodyne.

The Jet Gyrodyne utilised the fuselage, undercarriage and engine of the FB-1 Gyrodyne. The Alvis Leonides nine-cylinder radial engine was situated in the middle of the fuselage and drove a pusher propeller at the tip of each stub wing and two Rolls-Royce Merlin engine superchargers. The original three-blade tilting hub rotor system was replaced by a two-blade rotor controlled with swashplate-actuated cyclic and collective pitch controls. An empennage provided the necessary stabilization about the pitch and yaw axes.

The Jet Gyrodyne was retired once ground testing of the Rotodyne rotor drive system commenced.

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Fairey Jet Gyrodyne

Fairey Jet Gyrodyne

Fairey Jet Gyrodyne

Fairey Jet Gyrodyne

Miles M.100 Student

Miles M.100 Student
Miles M.100 Student
Miles M.100 Student

Miles M.100 Student

Miles M.100 Student

The Miles M.100 Student was built as a lightweight trainer as a private venture by F.G. and George Miles with development started in 1953. Although not specifically a Miles product,it was promoted as a British Royal Air Force trainer but failed to enter production

Building on the company's experience with the M.77 "Sparrowjet", the M.100 Student was a two-seat, side-by-side, all-metal jet trainer. The M.100 prototype was powered by a 400 kgf (882 lb) thrust Turbomeca Marbore turbojet and flew for the first time on 15 May 1957. Miles had hoped to secure an RAF order, but the contract went to the Jet Provost. The Student was proposed for several training programmes, but without success.

G-APLK, the sole aircraft, was allocated XS941 when developed in the Mark 2 version as a prospective Counter-insurgency type. It was tested by the Royal Air Force but was not accepted and therefore did not go into production.

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Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba

Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba
Fairy Gannet

The Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba

The Armstrong Siddeley Double Mamba is a turboprop engine design developed in the late 1940s of around 3,000–4,000 hp (2,200–3,000 kW). It was used mostly on the Fairey Gannet anti-submarine aircraft developed for the Fleet Air Arm of the Royal Navy.

The Double Mamba (rarely known as the Twin Mamba) was a development of the Armstrong Siddeley Mamba with two Mambas driving contra-rotating propellers through a combining gearbox.

Engine starting was by cartridge, however, forced air restart was achieved in flight. One engine could be shut down in flight to conserve fuel. Shutting down one engine also stopped one of the propellers.

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Bristol Mercury

Bristol Mercury

Bristol Mercury

Bristol Mercury

Ejector Seat

Ejector Seat

Ejector Seat

Ejector Seat

Ejector Seat

Ejector Seat

Chevaline A3 Polaris missile

Chevaline A3 Polaris missile

Chevaline A3 Polaris missile

Chevaline A3 Polaris missile

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About Museum of Berkshire Aviation

The Museum of Berkshire Aviation is a small aviation museum in Woodley, a town in Berkshire, England. The museum is on the edge of the site of the former Woodley Aerodrome and many of its exhibits relate to the Phillips & Powis company, later renamed Miles Aircraft, which was based there from 1932 to 1947. Other aircraft exhibited were built by Handley Page (Reading) Ltd, and by Fairey Aviation at White Waltham near Maidenhead.

Despite being a small museum, several of the exhibits are unique survivors. These include a Miles Martinet (a World War II target tug), the only Miles Student two-seat side-by-side jet trainer ever built, and a Fairey Jet Gyrodyne — a composite helicopter and autogyro, or gyrodyne.

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