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Comet Racer and Hawk Speed Six - Shuttleworth Season Premiere Airshow 2021

The Shuttleworth Collection's de Havilland DH88 Comet and Miles Hawk Speed Six, displaying during the Shuttleworth Season Premiere Airshow 2021. DH88:- produced by De Havilland Aircraft Company for the 1934 MacRobertson Air Race between England and Australia. Initial estimates placed the cost at around £50,000 per aircraft and the De Havilland company financed the project purely on prestige and any resulting research data. Each aircraft was sold for £5,000. Three aircraft were actually ordered for the race, the first aircraft being E-1 (G-ACSP) which flew on 8th September 1934, just six weeks before the start. The cantilever monoplane was powered by two 230 hp Gipsy Six R engines, driving Ratier two-position propellers that changed the pitch from fine to coarse automatically as airspeed increased. Two crew would sit in tandem behind three large fuel tanks which provided a range of nearly 3,000 miles. The airframe featured a retractable undercarriage and the overall light-weight construction resulted in the aircraft being made almost entirely of wood. The only metal used within the fuselage was in load bearing components. The three 'Race Planes' were the black and gold ‘Black Magic’ (G-ACSP), flown by Jim and Amy Mollinson (nee Amy Johnson); the British Racing green (G-ACSR), flown by Owen Cathcart and Ken Waller and this aircraft (G-ACSS) ‘Grosvenor House’ flown by CWA Scott and Tom Campbell Black. It was named by its owner, Mr AO Edwards, after the London Hotel where he was Managing Director. The race started on 20th October 1934 from RAF Mildenhall. Both 'Black Magic' (G-ACSP) and 'Grosvenor House' (G-ACSS) flew to Baghdad non-stop. This DH88 won the race in 70 hours and 54 minutes. Afterwards G-ACSS was evaluated by the RAF with the serial number K5084 and appeared in the 1936 Hendon Pageant. It suffered several accidents in the RAF and was sold as scrap. It was bought by F Tasker and restored at Essex Aero Ltd, Gravesend. Renamed ‘The Orphan’ it came fourth in the England-Damascus Air Race of 1937. Later G-ACSS was renamed again as ‘The Burberry’ and set a new record for the out-and-back times to the Cape, and also set a record when it travelled from England to New Zealand and home again in only ten days, twenty-one hours and twenty-two minutes. G-ACSS was then abandoned at Gravesend and spent WW2 stored there. De Havilland apprentices statically restored it for the 1951 Festival of Britain, where it was displayed hanging from the roof. It was given to the Shuttleworth Collection in 1965 and a restoration to flying condition began which culminated in the first flight in forty-nine years on 17th May 1987. After the closure of Hatfield in 1994 the aircraft returned to Old Warden where the runway was too short to allow safe operation. The runway was lengthened by 1999. In 2002 the Comet suffered undercarriage failure when landing after its first test flight - as originally designed the legs were liable to failure under certain conditions. Modifications to the structure were approved and implemented and the aircraft flew again. After successful test flights on 1st August 2014, it is now a regular performer at Shuttleworth air displays. The Miles Hawk Speed Six :- designed as a racing development of the already popular Miles Hawk series of sports and towing aircraft. Three Hawk Speed Six aircraft were built by Phillips and Powis during 1934 and 1935. The prototype G-ACTE first flew in 1934 having been built for Sir Charles Rose. It was raced in Kings Cup races from 1934 – 1936. Two further Hawk Speed Six’s were built, the M2U, G-ADOD, and the M2L G-ADGP. These were built for siblings Luis and Ruth Fontes. Both were raced extensively in 1933 and 1936 until G-ADOD was written off on 1st October 1936 following engine failure. This left G-ADGP as the sole surviving Speed Six. It was progressively modified both before and after Word War 2 in order to obtain faster speeds, coming 2nd in 4 out of 13 Kings Cup races from 1948 to 1960. By 1971, G-ADGP had been modified so much that it was almost unrecognisable, and its importance as a historic aircraft was becoming obvious. In 1986 it was sold to Tom Buffaloe who had it rebuilt to 1937 specification. It spent most of the next 10 years based at Old Warden, while still owned by Tom Buffaloe. In 1997 it was sold to Concorde captain Roger Mills and kept at Fairoaks, appearing at Shuttleworth air displays on several occasions. In 2018 Roger decided to sell G-ADGP and it was purchased by the Shuttleworth Collection. Following a thorough inspection it appeared at numerous airshows during the 2018 season. Video and Audio content is Copyright © High Flight This video and audio material may not be reproduced in any form (except as the videos Youtube embedded video option on any other website), without written permission.