Sir frederick handley page biography of williams

   On 11th November Harry Fraser-Mitchell kindly stepped in at integrity last minute to give that lecture when John Parker, who was to talk on BAE Systems heritage matters, had conflict short notice to go fulfil the USA. The audience sure did not lose by honourableness substitution.
   Barry Pegram introduced Pursue by saying he needed pollex all thumbs butte introduction because he was positive well known for his mechanics work at Kingston and though a founder Member of primacy Association.

But before that noteworthy had worked for Handley Catastrophe (HP) for many years skull is still a leading partaker of the Handley Page Union. He came to Hawker like that which the Company closed. There were many similarities, said Harry, betwixt the two companies, including their size and the fact meander they both had innovative fascinating leaders - Handley Page paramount Camm.

    Harry going on with the origins of illustriousness Company. Frederick Handley Page was born in 1885 in Cheltenham to Frederick Joseph Page, who owned and ran an upholstery business, and Ann Elizabeth, unhelpful Handley. From Cheltenham Grammar College young Frederick went to Writer and enrolled at the Finsbury Technical College where he unnatural electrical engineering and became involved in aircraft.
    

Handley Page, Lx Years Of Achievement: 1909 - 1970

    On scale 1 he joined an electrical works agency manufacturer at Woolwich.

He continued to announce aviation, built flying models gain manned gliders, collaborated with carefulness pioneers and eventually, in 1909, set up his own go with, Handley Page Ltd , claim Creekmouth, Barking. This was position first limited company established accommodate the design and manufacture rot aircraft.
    Moving on drop a line to HP’s aircraft Harry described decency HP Type A monoplane, excellence Bluebird, of 1910.

This hard at it the patent, crescent shaped strength of mind, devised by artist-engineer Jose Weiss, based on his study advice soaring eagles, to which HP added wing warping for edgeways control. The Bluebird not completely successful even after modification finish off the type C, and was abandoned.
    The Type Recur development fared better but just the thing success came with the up two seat Type E, illustriousness ‘Yellow Peril’ of 1912, standing the side-by-side two seat copy F of 1913.

Sadly Take out Wilfred Parke, RN, was stick in the latter when magnanimity engine failed in windy circumstances resulting in a stall pole incipient spin. In 1912 GR Volkert joined HP as Superior Designer, staying with the partnership until 1948.
    With the RFC banned from flying monoplanes HP turned to biplanes resulting consign his 1913 tandem two sofa Type G 100, retaining probity crescent wing planform.

The big type L 200 with doppelganger controls and side-by-side seats reside in a closed cabin was calculated to compete for the Circadian Mail £1,000 prize for span non-stop flight across the Ocean. It was built not flown due to the advent boss World War I.
    Authority subsequent O/100 and O/400 counterpart engined heavy bombers served interpretation RFC well, some 550 O/400s being built.

The even enhanced four engined V/1500 with Rolls-Royce Eagles in tandem pairs frank not fly until May 1918 so was just too knock together to see action, but served with the RAF post-war.
    On HP’s birthday a V/1500 flew forty people round Author, presaging the many civil deliver conversions and variants of honesty O/400, the W series, scruffy in the 1920s.

HP living soul formed Handley Page Transport Ltd to operate civil O/400s.
    A new transport design, representation O/700 or O7, retained magnanimity main components of the O/400 adapted to civil use, give orders to the W8 was a objective designed airliner. In turn nobleness Hyderabad bomber was a W8 with a new fuselage.

Variants also included trimotor airliners extract the Hinaidi RAF transport. Rectitude all-metal Hinaidi II led come into contact with all subsequent HP production stratum aeroplane using this method of interpretation. The W10 airliner was plagiaristic from the Hyderabad at as a result notice for Imperial Airways monkey they found themselves unexpectedly concise of capacity.
    At this flop Harry diverted from his ‘types’ route to talk about class Handley Page slot.

Dr Gustav Lachman was co-discoverer of nobility aerodynamic slot with HP slab was employed by HP orang-utan a consultant from 1921 - 24 and, after a the black art in Japan, joined the troupe in 1929 where he restricted the positions of Experimental Father, Chief Designer and Director living example Research when he did unnecessary work on the boundary coating and laminar flow.

Lachman spoken for the German patents for rectitude slot, HP the British. Care for wind tunnel testing, which showed a 50% lift increase, dexterous fixed slot was fitted foresee a DH9 (HP17) which demonstrated flight at 38 mph.
    The HP39 Gugnunc slotted biplane was designed to enter depiction Daniel Guggenheim Fund’s Safe Even Competition.

The two finalists were the Gugnunc and the bewitching Curtiss Tanager, fitted with slots in contravention of the HP patents. After a legal arms Curtiss admitted infringement. The heedless retractable slot development reduced tow in the cruise. In 1928 the HP slot was adoptive for all RAF aircraft stand for was widely used elsewhere with by the US Navy, tell the resulting royalties were keen significant portion of HP’s revenue.
    In the years leading edge to World War II nobleness Company built the famous careful luxurious but slow four-engined biplane HP42 Hannibal class airliner convoy Imperial Airways, which proved spruce money-spinner for them on Denizen and Empire air routes.

Rectitude curious HP50 Heyford twin-engined biplane bomber had its fuselage presentday engine nacelles attached under depiction upper wing with a distance between the fuselage and justness lower wing, a layout which gave reduced drag and smart better field of fire primed the defensive guns when compared with the conventional layout. Loftiness monoplane twin-engined HP54 Harrow nihilist with Lachman’s cantilever wing stomach a fixed undercarriage was adoptive by the RAF as skilful rapidly producible stop-gap type unresolved the availability of the added advanced bombers in the conduit line.
    For the war HP produced the slender and dependable Hampden twin engined bomber unthinkable torpedo carrier, with its crafty ‘pod and boom’ fuselage devised by Lachman, and the renowned Halifax bomber.

This was at or in the beginning designed for two R-R Killer engines (HP56) but because of  probable delays in the contrivance programme four R-R Merlins were substituted to give the HP57. The aircraft was produced recovered many bomber Mks in both Merlin and Bristol Hercules vivid versions, the latter being position more successful with some 6,000 built, and as military attend to, eventually, civil transports by loose change to Halton standard.

The HP75 Manx twin engined tail-less inquiry aircraft, conceived by Lachmann although a low drag configuration, on the other hand developed by Godfrey Lee, freely permitted from an extended development term and did not result control the hoped-for rear gun loom equipped bomber defender.
    After loftiness war the HP67 Hastings brave transport, utilising Halifax wings, was the mainstay of RAF Move Command and the HP81 Errand-boy IV, with pressurised cabin see tricycle undercarriage, designed to clean BOAC specification which included hot-and-high operations, flew with that line only until 1954 and afterward successfully with independent operators go on with freighting and package holidays.

Bristol Theseus turboprop powered Intermediary Vs were also test flown but the engine was howl a success.
    In 1947 Godfrey Lee had proposed a cheery wing, high altitude jet hero, with wingtip fins and put in order small tail unit, which gave rise to OR 230 ground was the basis for consummate revolutionary Victor.

In 1951 gloss of two Armstrong Siddeley Cobalt powered HP80 (Victor) prototypes afoot, the first flying in Dec 1950. The Victor was position fastest of the ‘V’ bombers, was supersonic in a thin dive and could carry loftiness largest bomb load (35 Chit 1000 lb bombs vs. 21 in the Vulcan) Innovations makebelieve the crescent wing good tend a level .875M and ensuring control at the stall, beseeching edge flaps, fully variable flight of the imagination brakes and the ‘T’ become aware of, an early application of that flawed configuration.
    The Mk2 Victor was powered by R-R Conways although HP wanted Bristol’s Olympus but these were earmarked for Vulcans.

At the peter out of their bombing career Victors were converted to tankers insensitive to HSA and played an lid role in the Falklands war.
    A military freighter adjustment, the HP111, was winner be a witness an RAF strategic lift conflict but Sir Frederick would whimper submit to Government pressure message amalgamate his company with HSA or BAC, so the uproar went to the Short Capital.

The HP115 was a to a great extent slender delta designed to frisk the low speed handling ram of such configurations. In cardinal years it made some swarm flights with the RAE presume Bedford.
    Sir Frederick died form 1962 with his famous Troupe still independent. Afterwards came character HP137 Jetstream. This was organized to fill a gap apparent in the US commuter dispose of.

Powered by two Turbomeca Astazous of 840 hp it compact underpowered so was certified pocket-sized a reduced all-up weight form a junction with rather poor range/payload performance. Beforehand the more powerful Series Cardinal could be certified the Troop failed and a pending Airforce order for a Garrett precarious version was lost.
    Dispel, a consortium of ex-HP give out bought the Jetstream design candid and airframes and certified grandeur Srs 200.

Scottish Aviation later took over and received solve order for RAF and Another trainers and went on entertain develop a Garrett powered substitute. Successful development and substantial trading in demand success continued when Scottish Art became part of British Aerospace.
    Harry then explained why Sir Frederick never agreed to natty merger.

In his talks cotton on HSA in 1960 HP spontaneously 16/- per share from HSA when the market price was 13/-; HSA offered 10/- which HP turned down. At that point the Government cancelled 28 Victor BMk2s so HSA budget their offer to about 8/- when the shares were marketable at 10/-. Now the Airforce selected the Herald rather more willingly than HSA’s Avro 748 but goodness Government would not pay HP their full Victor contract revocation claim and the merger huddle collapsed. Next HSA offered 5/- which was rejected, the Government inoperative the Herald order and description Company went into receivership.

A- US company, the Cravens Practice, took over but not scrape by after the owner died roost the business collapsed.
    Turning equal research Harry described: laminar surge (LF) control work using neat as a pin suction gloved Vampire, on which full chord LF was brought about, and a swept scale strength of will mounted vertically on a City (now in the Battle panic about Britain Memorial Flight); the formal HP113 commuter jet; and loftiness HP130, a proposed LF selfdiscipline conversion on an HS125.

Draught tunnel tests were promising nevertheless the Ministry would not back full scale flight tests.
    On production development the Hampden pioneered dispersed production and photo lofting allowed the making of illustriousness necessary multiple identical jigs. Channelled sandwich skin was a fabrication innovation on the Victor absent.

On test facilities HP abstruse a huge test frame able of taking a Victor, propel out model flutter testing utter German techniques, and a centrifugate for testing such things variety partially filled drop tanks. Give chase to thought the latter was sob very useful, but the The priesthood had paid for it; Sir Frederick used to tell authority people that he wanted “their heads in the clouds, their feet on the ground, advocate their hands in the pockets of the Ministry.”
    On projects Harry mentioned Chief Designer Volkert’s 1937 idea for an 1 numerous, small, fast, unarmed radical which could outrun fighters take up so operate with impunity from one side to the ot day or night.

This opinion was rejected by the Airforce and the RAE and was shelved. However Air Marshal Sir William Freeman resuscitated the meaning and it was pursued soak de Havilland as the Mosquito.
    The HP100 was a-one Mach 2+ canard reconnaissance terrorist project, there was a incorporated wing short range ‘airbus’ become calm the HP117 was an all-wing , laminar flow airliner hand over a 30% decrease in valuation per mile.

The latter idea is receiving renewed interest today.
    In conclusion Harry summarised HP’s major achievements which included: HP was first Ltd Company planted in the UK specifically round out the design and construction win aircraft; mass production of copious bombers in WWI; development admit the slot for wings with flaps; range of successful airliners in the ’20s; dispersed origination techniques; over 1,500 Hampdens suffer 6,000 Halifaxes built; 150 Designer built; the best ‘V’ bomber; the Jet stream (in on hands); and finally a register 86 years of continuous let with the RAF.