Early next year, a fundraising campaign will begin, in hopes of resurrecting a rare biplane airliner called the Handley Page HP42. Though only 8 copies of the massive plane were built, it is ...
Handley Page is synonymous with the UK’s aviation industry but bad timing and resistance to change would ultimately lead to its downfall in 1970. Things looked different in the 1950s when the company ...
Wright Field Technical Documents Library / D50. Transportation, Supplies, and Equipment / D52. Aircraft / D52.1 - Airplanes (arranged alphabetically) / H / Handley ...
On the afternoon of 5 October 1932, a lumbering biplane emerged out of the haze above Sharjah. Circling around a small strip–known as Al Mahatta, or ‘the Station’ – the Handley Page aircraft ...
The 5 October 1932 was far from a normal day in Sharjah, as at 4pm, the first aircraft landed on the Al Mahatta runway en route to Bahrain. The Hanno, a British-made, four-propeller Handley Page HP42 ...
THE Handley Page aeroplane Gugnunc was presented to the Aeronautical Section of the Science Museum on July 19. On behalf of Lord Londonderry, Sir Christopher Bullock, in presenting the aeroplane, said ...
A plane that was once capable of carrying a nuclear bomb as a deterrent during the Cold War has gone on display. The 110-foot wingspan Handley Page Victor is the only surviving aircraft of its type, ...