Built for Harold Brook to compete in the England to Australia race in October 1934. He was eliminated by overall time limit after damaging the propeller in Rome & had to wait for a replacement. He did eventually reach Melbourne & set a new solo record for the return journey some months later. This model is a modification of my M3A Falcon Major produced for contestants taking part in an anniversary flight sim contest organised by Sim Outhouse in 2014. Previously uploaded to Britsim & lost when that folded.
BACKGROUND: Having found 5 photographs of this aircraft I decided to modify my M3A Falcon model to represent the prototype M3 Falcon G-ACTM that took part in the London to Melbourne race in 1934 & flown by H.L.Brook. Unfortunately he was unable to reach Melbourne within the allotted time due to sustaining propeller damage in Rome & had to wait for a replacement to be shipped to him.
Following a sojourn in Australia he then set a record breaking solo return flight to Lympne in Sussex of 7 days 19 hours 15 secs. One leg of 1700 miles from Jodhpur to Basra was accomplished non-stop.
My thanks go to the Beta testers at Britsim, cbfsim & SOH.
Happy Landings.
Keith Paine