M.14 Magister
Type	Trainer
Manufacturer	Miles Aircraft
Designed by	G.H. Miles
Maiden flight	1937
Primary users	Royal Air Force Fleet Air Arm
Number built	1,393

Miles Magister at the Imperial War Museum, Duxford

The Miles M.14 Magister was a British 2-seat monoplane basic trainer aircraft built by the Miles Aircraft for the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm. Affectionately known as the Maggie, the Magister was based on Miles' civilian Hawk Major and Hawk Trainer and was the first monoplane designed specifically as a trainer for the RAF. As a low-wing monoplane, it was an ideal introduction to the Spitfire and Hurricane for new pilots. Miles Magister elementary trainer Published in: Aircraft of the Fighting Powers Vol I Ed: H J Cooper, O G Thetford and D A. Russell Harborough Publishing Co, Leicester, England 1940. ... An aerospace manufacturer is a company or individual involved in the various aspects of designing, building, testing, selling, and maintaining aircraft, aircraft parts, missiles, rockets, and/or spacecraft. ... The Maiden flight of an aircraft is the first occasion on which an aircraft leaves the ground of its own accord. ... 1937 (MCMXXXVII) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ... The Fleet Air Arm is the operational group of the Royal Navy responsible for the operation of the aircraft on board their ships. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1600 × 1200 pixel, file size: 603 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photographed by me (Gaius Cornelius) on 05-Jun-06. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1600 × 1200 pixel, file size: 603 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Photographed by me (Gaius Cornelius) on 05-Jun-06. ... A monoplane is an aircraft with one main set of wing surfaces, in contrast to a biplane or triplane. ... A trainer is a training aircraft used to develop piloting, navigational or weapon-aiming skills in flight crew. ... Miles Aircraft was a British manufacturer of light civil and military aircraft. ... The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the air force branch of the British Armed Forces. ... The Fleet Air Arm is the operational group of the Royal Navy responsible for the operation of the aircraft on board their ships. ... The Supermarine Spitfire was an iconic British single-seat fighter used primarily by the RAF and many Allied countries through the Second World War and into the 1950s. ... The Hawker Hurricane was a British single-seat fighter aircraft designed and predominantly built by Hawker Aircraft Ltd. ...

Design and development

The Magister was designed to meet Air Ministry Specification T.40/36P and first flew in March 1937. The design was based on a open-cockpit, low wing cantilever monoplane of spruce structure covered in plywood. The wing centre section has no dihedral and is of constant section with outer sections having dihedral and tapering towards the tip. Split flaps were fitted as standard. The initial M.14 was followed by the definitive Miles M.14A Magister I with a taller rudder, deeper rear fuselage and, eventually, anti-spin strakes on rear fuselage. The Air Ministry was formerly a department of the United Kingdom Government, established in 1918 with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the (then newly formed) Royal Air Force. ... This is a partial list of the British Air Ministry specifications for aircraft. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1937: Events March March 5 - Imperial Airways opens a new flying boat base at Hythe, Hampshire. ...

Operational history

The Miles Magister is a phrase in Latin, pronounced Me-lays Mag-ister, that translates as "soldier-teacher" which was very fitting for its eventual role as a basic training aircraft. Production began in October 1937 and by the start of the Second World War over 700 Magisters had entered service with RAF Elementary Flying Training Schools, eventually equipping 16 such schools as well as the Central Flying School. Large numbers of civilian Hawk Majors were also pressed into service as trainers. Production of the Magister continued until 1941 by which time 1,203 had been built. After the war many Magisters were converted for civilian uses and redesignated as the Hawk Trainer III. Latin is an ancient Indo-European language originally spoken in Latium, the region immediately surrounding Rome. ... Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... The Central Flying School is the Royal Air Forces primary institution for the training of flying instructors. ...

Variants

• Miles M.14 :
• Miles M.14A :
• Hawk Trainer III :

Hawk Trainer

Image File history File links Size of this preview: 787 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1419 × 1081 pixel, file size: 325 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Miles Hawk Trainer flown by my father in the early 1950s. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 787 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1419 × 1081 pixel, file size: 325 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) Miles Hawk Trainer flown by my father in the early 1950s. ...

Specifications (Miles M.14A)

General characteristics

• Crew: 2 (instructor and student)
• Length: 24 ft 7 in (7.51 m)
• Wingspan: 33 ft 10 in (10.31 m)
• Height: 9 ft 1 in (2.77 m)
• Wing area: 176 ft² (16.3 m²)
• Empty weight: 1,260 lb (570 kg)
• Loaded weight: 1,863 lb (845 kg)
• Powerplant: 1× de Havilland Gipsy Major I inverted inline piston, 130 hp (97 kW)

Performance

• Maximum speed: 132 mph at 1,000 ft (212 km/h)
• Range: 380 miles (610 km)
• Service ceiling: 18,000 ft (5,500 m)
• Rate of climb: 850 ft/min (260 m/min)
• Wing loading: 10.6 lb/ft² (51.8 kg/m²)
• Power/mass: 0.07 hp/lb (0.11 kW/kg)

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Operators

• Egypt (42 aircraft)
• Republic of Ireland (15 Aircraft)
• New Zealand (2 Aircraft)
• South Africa
• Turkey
• Thailand
• United Kingdom

References

• Green, William and Pollinger, Gerald. The Aircraft of the World. London: Macdonald, 1955.

External links

• Miles Magister and Miles Hawk Trainer IIIs

Related content

Related development

• Miles Hawk Major

Comparable aircraft

Fairchild PT-19 - Yakovlev UT-2 - de Havilland Moth Minor Fairchild PT-19 Fairchild PT-19 Cornell The Fairchild PT-19 was a monoplane primary trainer aircraft that served with the USAAC, RAF and RCAF during World War II. It was a contemporary of the Kaydet biplane trainer. ... The Yakovlev UT-2 (Russian: УТ-2) was a trainer aircraft used by the Soviet Air Force from 1937 until the 1950s. ... The de Havilland DH.94 Moth Minor was a 1930s British two-seat tourer/trainer aircraft built by De Havilland Aircraft Company at Hatfield Aerodrome, England and Bankstown, Australia. ...

Designation sequence

M.11 - M.12 - M.13 - M.14 - M.15 - M.16 - M.17 The Miles M.11 Whitney Straight was a 2-seat light aircraft with a dual-control, side-by-side cockpit configuration developed in 1936 as a collaboration between Miles Aircraft and American-born Whitney Straight, best known as a Grand Prix motor racing driver and later an Royal Air Force... The Miles M.16 Mentor was a 1930s British single-engined three-seat monoplane training and communications aircraft built by Miles Aircraft Limited. ...

Related lists

• List of aircraft of the RAF
• List of aircraft of the RNZAF

Many aircraft types have served in the Royal Air Force since it was formed in 1918 by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service. ... This is a list of aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force and Royal New Zealand Navy. ...