Miles M.30
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The Miles M.30 X Minor was an experimental aircraft, designed by Miles Aircraft to evaluate the characteristics of blended fuselage and wing intersections. Begun in 1939, the design was a scaled-down version of the gigantic Miles X airliner then being developed.
The small size of the X Minor made it impossible to scale the larger design exactly; the engines were too large and resulted in an aircraft similar in layout but differing in aerodynamics. The X Minor first flew in February 1942, providing Miles with useful data for several years. A larger scale prototype of the X transport was planned but never built.
[edit] Specifications (M.30)
This aircraft article is missing some (or all) of its specifications. If you have a source, you can help Wikipedia by adding them.General characteristics
- Crew: one or two pilots
- Length: 26 ft 3 in (8.00 m)
- Wingspan: 33 ft (10.06 m)
- Height: 9 ft ()
- Wing area: 200 sq ft ()
- Empty weight: 2,710 lb (1,230 kg)
- Loaded weight: 4,240 lb (1,920 kg)
- Powerplant: 2× de Havilland Gipsy Major I Series II inline engines, 130 hp (97 kW) each
Performance
[edit] References
- British Aircraft of World War II. "MILES X-MINOR". Retrieved Oct 5, 2005.
- Miles Aircraft. "M.30 X Minor". Retrieved Oct 5, 2005.
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