The Handley Page Centinary theme build!

[Howard of Effingham]

Yowsa!!! Thanks Jon!

I think I'm in love. Now that's an H-P with legs!

hmm, wait until he sees the HP46 then.....

[there's scannable plans and photos in the putnam book on HP btw]

its whiff-gasm time.

thanks JCF!

so who's in for this GB now then?

i'll update the list tommorrow, when its still yesterday in some parts of the world.....

looks like a handley page 100 GB is perhaps a goer....

[Brian da Basher]

Google Image Search left me wanting...no HP 46. Ah well maybe some kind soul will post a scan....

Brian da Basher

[jcf]

hmm, wait until he sees the HP46 then.....

[there's scannable plans and photos in the putnam book on HP btw]

its whiff-gasm time.

thanks JCF!

so who's in for this GB now then?

i'll update the list tommorrow, when its still yesterday in some parts of the world.....

looks like a handley page 100 GB is perhaps a goer....

More Handley-Page single engine jobs, including HP 46, from the Putnam are indeed in the scanning queue
for this week. 

Jon

[Howard of Effingham]

oh dear!

better not spoil the surprize then!

the HP46 might've actually worked better than it did if BdB added spats 

something to look forward too!

[sequoiaranger]

This is a 1/96 Frog Hampden model turned into a 1/72 "Zerstorer" for the Swiss to protect their and Liechtenstein's airspace. Twin 40mm Bofors should do the trick to dissuade un-authorized flyovers!

I call it the "Flying Briefcase". Boy, did they need skinny pilots for this one!

[jcf]

I call it the "Flying Briefcase". Boy, did they need skinny pilots for this one!

You are in good company, from page 354 of "Handley Page Aircraft since 1907":
"It was C.G.Grey, founder and first editor of The Aeroplane, who remarked to Cordes (H-P test pilot) after a press demonstration (June, 1936); 'It looks like a flying suit-case'... "

Cheers

[sequoiaranger]

Well, I DELIBERATELY usurped the old Hampden epithet for my Helvetican.

Apparently, the moniker came about because of the Hampden's unusual split-assembly construction. That is, the two  sides of the fuselage were manufactured separately, then put together, even more like a "suitcase".

Considering that the Hampden fuselage was only 36" wide to begin with, converting to my Helvetican would put the width at 27" instead---did I mention CRAMPED??

[kitnut617]

Interesting you should comment on how wide the Hampden' fuselage is, the Maryland, Baltimore and Boston are about the same 

[jcf]

As promised the HP 46.

Luverly innit? 

Jon

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[Thorvic]

Jon

You should show Brian the earlier 1920's monoplane HO did for the US Navy 
(He'll love that one !)

G

[kitnut617]

So that's where the Corsair got it's wing design, not a new idea after all.

[jcf]

A pair of naval projects.

The Type S  (HP-21) shipboard monoplane fighter worked on for the US Navy, three ordered S-1 and S-2 completed/tested, S-3 floatplane not completed.

HP-37 two-seat Fleet Fighter F for the RN, second iteration tendered, unbuilt.

Jon

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[Howard of Effingham]

  JCF  

that's could have spats when BdB is finished that _rival_ even the heyford's!      

hmm, thorvic! now there is an idea! it was the type S i think, JCF will know. there was apparently a
floatplane version too which just goes to show that curtiss and grumman weren't terribly original in
their ideas either.... but i am biased where HP a/c are concerned.

a pre-war avro GB could attract even me!  

[jcf]

The Napier Lion IIB Type X bomber proposal of the late teens-early twenties.

Span: 50'
Length: 39' 8"

Jon

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[jcf]

hmm, thorvic! now there is an idea! it was the type S i think, JCF will know. there was apparently a
floatplane version too which just goes to show that curtiss and grumman weren't terribly original in
their ideas either.... but i am biased where HP a/c are concerned.

The first Curtiss single-engine scout-fighter floatplane design for the USN was the GS-1 of 1917, GS stood for Gnome Scout.
The first aircraft was a triplane, the five redesigned follow on aircraft, serials A445/449, were biplanes.
First acceptance was 14/2/1918, the aircraft were all out of service by November of 1923.
The H-P Type S first flew 7 September, 1923.

Jon