FlightGlobal.com
Home
Premium
Archive
Video
Images
Forum
Atlas
Blogs
Jobs
Shop
RSS
Email Newsletters
You are in:
Home
Aviation History
1922
1922 - 0732.PDF
DECEMBER 14, 1922 . i.-irsawesaassiii -IANOASYDE AiRC^APT COMmMYy •vs/ok/og - ~—• Side view of the Handasyde Cantilever Monoplane with " Eagle IX " engines. After severing his connection with Martinsyde, Ltd., of Woking, of which firm he had been a partner since 1909, Mr. G. H. Handasyde formed, with Mr. Hamilton Fulton, the Handasyde Aircraft Co., Ltd. This was in 1921, and the firm has been handicapped to a certain extent by not having their own construction works. Now, however, we are glad to be in a position to announce that this difficulty has been overcome, arrangements having been completed for obtaining control and supervision of the aircraft section of the Air Navigation Co., Ltd., of Addlestone (formerly Bleriot Aeronautics). The board of directors will be added to shortly by Mr. F. P. Raynham and Maj. A. Graves joining. The H.A.C. will in the future be in a position to undertake design and construction work of any kind. Since the formation of the company Mr. Handasyde has designed several machines, notably a cantilever monoplane, fitted with one of the new Rolls-Royce " Eagle IX " engines. This machine was designed for one of the air mail services in Australia, and we understand that more machines of similar type are to follow. The machine was fully described in FLIGHT of July 20, 1922. It may also be recollected that the glider on which Raynham flew for 1 hr. 53 mins. at Itford was built at Addlestone for the H.A.C. firm. The" same applies to the commercial monoplane, and under the new arrangement all future H.A.C. machines will be built there. We regret that no photographs of the H.A.C. monoplane are available at the moment, but we hope to publish some shortly. ^ HUNDLEY PAGE L* Crmewood F. Handle!/ Page Mamtguiy Director CW.fitercd.ith: Chief fp<?ijiea--& The Handley Page " Hanley " Torpedo Tlane, Napier "Lion *' engine. p Mr. F. Handley Page, as is, of course, well known, is one offcthe pioneer British aircraft constructors, havng built his first machine, a monoplane with crescent-shaped wings, in 1909. Since that distant date Mr. Handley Page has been, without interruption, actively connected with aviation, although the firm of Handley Page, Ltd., in its present form, was established many years later. In the earliest days Mr. Handley Page specialised on monoplanes, of which type he produced several. In 1914 he designed a biplane, which still retained the crescent-shaped wings. Then came the war, and the machine which laid the foundation for the fame of the name Handley Page was the large twin-engined bomber 0-400, which was fitted with two Rolls-Royce engines. The history and activities of machines of this type during the war are well known, and the effect of the type can still be clearly traced in the majority of modern twin-engined machines. In order to increase the range and bomb capacity of an aeroplane, Mr. Handley Page and Mr. C. W. Meredith, his chief engineer, who has been with Mr. Handley Page since the earliest days, designed the huge four-engined bomber known as the V-1500, which was intended for the bombing of Berlin. In this machine the engines were placed in pairs, one behind the other, on the wings. Several other types were designed during the war, but these did not reach the production, stage. The Handley Page W. 8 B, with two Rolls-Royce M Eagle " engines. 732
Sign up to
Flight Digital Magazine
Flight Print Magazine
Airline Business Magazine
E-newsletters
RSS
Events
