Frank McMillan's Martin Baker MB-5.'s . Flying .

[M Spencer]

57:xx tru 1:18+





Flying footage by Windimere , intersprsed with Our Chief of Operations with Viper .

Picture flogged from a post by Al Rabe .





and one from Kieth Trostle ;



I heard the words ' Lazer Cut ' in there , so boundless opertunities if someone exdigitates . Appears to me to fly very well .
Al had a hand in this ,
Plus theres a MB-3 derivative .Full Size . or Was .



Martin Baker nutters will find a treasure trove of photograhs HERE : https://plus.google.com/photos/109207897425941419378/albums/5468866842875915761/5468869893020992626?pid=5468868097272730034&oid=109207897425941419378

dunno if someones halucinating here ;

[M Spencer]

Frank Mc Millans M B 5 , PA 65 . on the bench at 49:00 , flying @ 53:00. appears again at 2: 11 : 30 .

[Dennis Leonhardi]

Awesome!  I've always loved that design ...


Dennis

[FLOYD CARTER]

The MB-5 profile is superb, even though the wings look a bit too small.

A great plane, but the Hurricanes and Spitfires seem to hog all the credit.

[PerttiMe]

The MB-5 profile is superb, even though the wings look a bit too small.

A great plane, but the Hurricanes and Spitfires seem to hog all the credit.

It is the Battle of Britain cult.
I love later type Spitfires and Seafires, but many are like: "It wasn't in BoB? Not interested".

[John Park]

Awesome!  I've always loved that design ...


Dennis

The test pilots at Boscombe Down loved it too - one of them said it was 'a cross between a P51 Mustang and a V2 rocket'!

[M Spencer]

Jeepers . I just found THIS :



https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rcuniverse.com-vbulletin/2000x1515/martin_baker_mb5_74d154fe5010f9df21e6087fd35ab62c7c5976f8.jpg

Ditto .



https://aviadejavu.ru/Images6/AN/AN79-2/16-1.jpg

They come up at a reasonable size , click on the links .

MB3 . Stood here on the Lavochkins run up in N.Z. urging them om , had been wetting plugs . as they seem to have realised by then .  Nice fan on a warm day .

[PerttiMe]

Great find! Thanks!
That first one looks like the work of the late Fred Spring. His drawings are usually considered "better than most".

[Trostle]

Great find! Thanks!
That first one looks like the work of the late Fred Spring. His drawings are usually considered "better than most".

Fred Spring is/was in Australia.  He had multi-view drawings almost to the same detail as his MB 5 shown above on almost every Spitfire Mark, the Sea Fury, the Sea Hornet and a few others.  His MB 5 drawing references factory drawings so that is where all of the detail comes from.  Clearly, one of the most detailed and probably one of the most accurate drawings extant of the MB 5.  His original drawings were in 1/48 scale, but he would supply drawings in 1/24 scale also.  I have about 14 different 3-views of the MB-5, but nothing comes close to this Spring drawing when I first got copies several years ago.

Keith

[James Holford]

I wanna say Frank is/was building ANOTHER one...

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