Henshaw's Africa flight Gemini for sale

摘要

The sixth production Miles Gemini, c 6285/G-AISD, is currently up for sale in Sweden. Owned by Stefan Sandberg and Hakan Wijkander and based at Hatunaholm,just north of Stockholm, the machine went to Sweden in 2010 in part-exchange for Percival Proctor Ⅲ SE-BTR/ G-AKEX, which is currently under restoration to fly i n Essex (see Percival Paradise, November 2012 Aeroplane). Rebuilt to a very high standard in the mid-1980s at Exeter by John Homewood,the machine was originally registered in November 1946 and made its maiden flight at Woodleywith Miles test pilot Hugh Kendall at the controls on March 27,1947. A few days later, on April 3, Alex Henshaw began an epic ferry flight to Nairobi, Kenya, in G-AISD, flying via Marseilles, Tunis, Castel Benito, El Adem (where he arrived on one engine, a piece of cotton havingfound its way into in the carburettor main jet), Almaza, Wadi Haifa, Atbara, Khartoum,Juba and Entebbe, arriving at Nairobi on April 9.