Need help ID'ing this aircraft

[rickshaw]

I am unsure what this is.  Doesn't anybody have any idea what it might be?

[PR19_Kit]

Somehow that looks a bit 'Miles' to me, not sure why though.

[Dizzyfugu]

It's a Miles Kestrel (U-5, to be specific). Google's picture search can work wonders, sometimes... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Kestrel

[perttime]

" in 1938, the de Havilland Don, that had won the Air Ministry specification T.6/36 contract, proved unsuitable in service, so orders were placed for a production development of the Kestrel called the Miles Master. At the time, it was the largest ever order for an RAF training aircraft. The Master I had some noticeable differences from the Kestrel, such as in the shape of the rear fuselage and fin, the rudder and elevator balancing, the cockpit glazing, and the relocation of the radiator from nose to belly, but was otherwise very similar. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Kestrel

[zenrat]

Other then the windscreen, which is a bit too vertical IMO, it's a good looking plane.

[NARSES2]

Looks a bit like a cross between the Miles M.20 and a P.40 to me ?

[Old Wombat]

Interestingly, Brian's image appears to be a photoshop whif.

Here is the same image from wikipedia:



And this quote:

The Kestrel did not carry the same military load, though there was provision for a single 0.303 in (7.7 mm) Browning machine gun in the starboard wing outboard of the landing gear, and for a camera in the matching port side position. There is no record that this gun was fitted. There was also provision for eight practice bombs on two centre section racks.

[jcf]

It's a Miles Kestrel (U-5, to be specific). Google's picture search can work wonders, sometimes... 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Kestrel

U-5 was only one of three different codes carried by the singular Miles M.9 Kestrel.


As built


After modification with enlarged, deepened chin radiator


In RAF service, modified rear canopy.

The Miles Master was the Miles M.9A, the two dozen Master Fighters, designated M.24
long after the fact, built as a stopgap had a wing mounted armament of six Brownings.
So I'd guess the photoshopping was either someone seeing what the M.9 would look
like with M.24 armament, or they confused the M.9 and M.9A, anyhow no photos
of the M.24 show the guns sticking out as in the altered photo.

As to the name, according to Don Brown's Miles Aircraft since 1925, Putnam 1970,
the Kestrel name came about because Miles already used hawk species names, the R-R
Kestrel name fit perfectly, and Rolls-Royce had purchased a large financial interest in
Phillips & Powis, the original form of the Miles Co., to the tune of £125,000 in preferred
shares thus taking over directorship, backing the aircraft and supplying the engine and
installation engineering, no fools they as if produced it would mean continued sales for
the Kestrel which was on the cusp of having its position usurped by the Merlin.