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6 July 1950 V de Havilland Mosquito. mm Handle/ Page Halifax. Bristol Beaufort. Bristol Brigand, plane, which is a very robust and capacious machine. In 1936 there followed the prototype of what was to become the Hampden, a mid-wing monoplane of extremely fine lines and having for its main fuselage a structure which has been likened to a suitcase placed .cm edge. The speed was 254 m.p.h. ; the range, 1,460 miles ; and the operational ceiling, 15,060ft. Hampdens attacked many parts of Germany in the early phases of tie war, and later operated as torpedo-bombers and mine-layers. The. illustrious Halifax followed twenty-four years after the 0/400. The 1914 war saw the appearance of two excellent twin- engined bombers—the D.H.10 and Vickers Vimy—which, were too late for operations; but though de Havilland had no other bomber in service until the historic Mosquito, Vickers persisted with, of which was the Virg best loved of all big be Wellington ("Wimpe) Outstanding among bombers were the Fai iber "heavies," the most famous '' Jinny'' was one of the course, was the stalwart general-purpose IIIF, the Westland Wapiti and Wallace, and the Vickers Vincent and Welles- ley. The official predilection for " general purpose " designs proved prejudicial to performance, and when the Fairey company proved, with its beautiful Fox biplane of 1926, that it was possible for a bomber to show a clean pair of heels to contemporary fighters, they set a new fashion. The no less beautiful Hawker Hart served as the basis for nine or more variants, including the more powerful Hind. Faireys continued their bomber tradition with the Battle. Like the Short firm, who, with their massive Stirling made a magnificent contribution to Bomber Command's wartime effort, Boulton Paul made their mark in the bomber field with a single basic design, for the outstanding and manoeuvrable Sidestrand and Overstrand were very closely related. The excellent combination of speed, manoeuvrability and armament which characterized these machines was perpetuated in the historic Bristol Blenheim which, as previously noted, served also as a fighter. The first bomber fast enough to operate unarmed, however, was the matchless de Havilland Mosqt ONNON TUWtfT A Right copyright drawing showingthe internal arrangement of the Avro Lincoln bomber, the last British-builtpiston-engined machine of its class to be used by the R.A.F. The enginesare four 12-cyl. Rolls-Royce Merlins.
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