{"product_id":"miles-aircraft-the-early-years-the-story-of-f-g-miles-and-his-aeroplanes-1925-1939-first-edition","title":"Miles Aircraft — The Early Years: The Story of F.G. Miles and His Aeroplanes, 1925–1939. (First Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAMOS, Peter.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eMiles Aircraft — The Early Years: The Story of F.G. Miles and His Aeroplanes, 1925–1939.\u003c\/em\u003e Tonbridge, Kent: Air-Britain (Historians) Ltd, 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eQuarto. Original pictorial hardcover. Matching pictorial dust jacket. 448 pp., illustrated throughout with hundreds of black-and-white photographs, construction numbers, registrations, and technical appendices. \u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition. Now out of print.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eFrederick George Miles was one of the most gifted and underrated aircraft designers in British aviation history. Beginning in the mid-1920s with a converted Avro Baby and progressing through a succession of increasingly sophisticated light aircraft produced under the Phillips \u0026amp; Powis name, Miles built a body of work that by 1939 encompassed some of the most elegant and capable aeroplanes in the world: the Hawk, the Falcon, the Whitney Straight, the Monarch, and above all the Magister — the RAF's standard ab initio trainer, which would teach thousands of wartime pilots to fly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eHis private-venture M.9 and M.9A trainer outperformed many contemporary European fighters, but Britain's pre-war procurement policies left it unordered. The story of Miles Aircraft in these years is simultaneously a story of extraordinary creative energy and of institutional failure to recognise it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003ePeter Amos's encyclopaedic account — thirty-one chapters surveying every design in sequence, supported by thirty-two appendices of construction numbers, registrations, and technical data, and illustrated throughout with hundreds of photographs drawn from archives and private collections — is the definitive treatment of this period, produced by Air-Britain Historians to the high standard the organisation has long maintained for specialist aviation publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eNow sold out from the publisher and increasingly difficult to locate in fine condition, it is the indispensable reference for Miles enthusiasts, historians of British inter-war aviation, and collectors of serious aeronautical literature alike.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine in a near fine unclipped dust jacket.\u003c\/strong\u003e Some very small and faint markings to the lower front cover. Contents clean, fresh, and bright throughout, free from markings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000328\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Peter Amos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48778958831859,"sku":"1110002940163","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_656eabd8-ea9b-4c8e-8a0b-805c1298f31a.png?v=1774930432","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/miles-aircraft-the-early-years-the-story-of-f-g-miles-and-his-aeroplanes-1925-1939-first-edition","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}