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	Handley Page Hampden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Handley Page HP.52 Hampden was a twin-engine medium bomber of the Royal Air Force that was one of the main front-line bombers at the start of World War II.
		Handley Page designed the Hampden to the same specification as the Wellington (Air Ministry Specification B.9/32) and the first prototype flew on June 21, 1936.
		A total of 1430 Hampdens were built, 500 by Handley Page, 770 by English Electric and in 1940-41, 160 in Canada by Canadian Associated Aircraft.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Handley_Page_Hampden (624 words)

	Handley Page HP52 Hampden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Hampden was a medium bomber which entered service with the RAF one year before the war broke out.
		Originally the Hampden was fitted with four Vickers.303 K guns, one being fixed and the remaining three with limited firing arcs.
		The Hampden was operational with Bomber Command from 1939 to 1942, being transferred in 1940 to night bombing.
	www.pavaservices.com /cfs/Hampden.htm (1174 words)

	Handley Page Hampden of 49 Squadron flown by Babe Learoyd Victoria Cross
		Four Hampdens of the force were briefed to act as diversion bombers, raiding other targets in the vicinity, and in the event two other Hampdens failed to locate the primary target and bombed Texel Island instead.
		The remaining five Hampdens arrived over the canal slightly ahead of ETA, Flt Lt R A B Learoyd, piloting P4403, EA-M was to be the last to bomb and circled the area for the next ten minutes.
		His Hampden was hit repeatedly, with chunks of the starboard wing being punched out; while the intensity of glare from the searchlights forced Learoyd to keep his head down and fly solely on instruments, relying on his bomb aimer/navigator Pilot Officer John Lewis, to give him the signal to release his bomb load.
	www.pewteraircraft.com /RAF/HAMPDEN/Hampden.htm (718 words)

	RAF History - Bomber Command 60th Anniversary
		The Hampden suffered greatly due to a lack of manoeuvrability and defensive firepower (it was not fitted with powered fun turrets) at the hands of the German fighters during the early daylight bomber raids of the 'Phoney War'.
		Hampdens joined the first Bomber Command daylight operation of the war when aircraft of No 83 Squadron (one of which was piloted by Guy Gibson) joined an attack on German naval vessels in the Schillig Roads along with Wellingtons and Blenheims.
		The Hampdens were then modified with additional guns (but still on fixed mountings) and armour-plating but the losses to both Hampdens and Wellingtons on daylight operations continued to be unacceptable and both types were eventually switched to the night offensive.
	www.raf.mod.uk /bombercommand/hampden.html (723 words)

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	Sir Frederick Handley Page
		Handley Page's design brilliance was manifested first in the 0/400 heavy bomber that flew in 1917 and later in the V/1500.
		Handley Page was again at the forefront with his Victor four-jet bomber as England moved into the nuclear delivery role after World War II.
		Frederick Handley Page is also recognized as an educator, advocating in the strongest terms, the value of sound technical training as the foundation for industrial success.
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	HANDLEY PAGE
		Handley Page contributed a twin-engine monoplane bomber, the Hampden.
		At the height of Britain's bomber offensive, the Halifax comprised 40 percent of the strength of the RAF Bomber Command.
		However, the firm of Handley Page elected to remain independent, and it soon felt the consequences.
	www.centennialofflight.gov /essay/Aerospace/Handley-page/Aero51.htm (1369 words)

	Handley Page Hampden TB1 airplane pictures & aircraft photos - RAF Museums
		The Hampden was the last of the twin-engined medium bombers to go into service during the expansion of Bomber Command in the late 1930s and, together with the Wellington and Whitley, it bore the brunt of the Royal Air Force's attacks against Germany in the early years of the Second World War.
		Its fixed forward gun was next to useless and the three flexible gun mountings in the nose and fuselage had a limited traverse which produced a number of blind spots.
		After a disastrous, but mercifully short, daylight campaign Hampdens were switched to night operations until 1942 when a number were converted to carry a torpedo.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /handley-page-hampden-tb1.htm (213 words)

	Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Handley Page loading winches load bombs on their carriers and automatically locates them in the correct position within the bomb-bays.
		Handley Page's H.P.56 proposal was selected for prototype construction, but the company had doubts that the Vulture engine would emerge as a reliable production powerplant, and set about the task of redesigning the H.P.56 to take four Bristol Taurus engines, but this was soon changed to incorporate Rolls-Royce Merlins instead.
		On 3 September 1937 Handley Page was awarded a contract for the manufacture of two prototypes of the H.P.57, with construction beginning in early 1938.
	www.kotfsc.com /aviation/halifax.htm (3255 words)

	Hampden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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		This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
		This page was last modified 10:26, 16 October 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hampden (76 words)

	Australian Military Units
		The Hampden was a medium bomber flown by Britain's Royal Air Force during the early years of the Second World War.
		They were transferred to night operations, with the last Hampden bombing raid being flown on the night of 14 September 1942.
		The Hampden was given a second lease of life as a torpedo bomber with Coastal Command, but it was not particularly suited to this role and was retired in late 1943 as more capable aircraft became available.
	www.awm.gov.au /units/subject_637.asp (187 words)

	Handley Page Hampden
		Handley Page Hampden of Wing Commander Robert Allen in aviation art print by aviation artist MA Kinnear available from Cranston Fine Arts.
		Re-formed in June 1938, the squadron was equipped with Hawker Hinds, and later Fairey Battles and from May 1939 until March 1942 was equipped with the Handley Page Hampden.
		The first operational WWII sortie, on the night of 9/10th September 1940 was mine laying in the Bordeaux area and the first bombing sortie was on the night of 1st/2nd March 1941 against Cologne.
	www.military-art.com /ap011.htm (1580 words)

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		In addition to the heavy losses sustained by the Hampden squadrons in the daylight operations launched during the early stages of the war.
		Hampden crews also had to contend with the possibility of their aircraft being be mistaken by RAF fighters as a German Dornier Do.17 bomber.
		Numerous instances of Hampden's being attacked in error by so called "friendly" aircraft were recorded during its operational life.
	www.lancaster-archive.com /hampden.htm (334 words)

	WW2 Warbirds: the Handley Page Hampden - Frans Bonné
		The H.P. 52 Hampden is the stable mate of the Vickers Wellington.
		To have the maximum performance, Handley Page chose a pod-and-boom type fuselage, which was extremely slender: 3 ft (0,91 m) wide at most.
		The first and major variant of the Hampden was the Hampden Mk I. Designed and built in a time when there were only vague premonitions of the war to come, the Hampden was advanced and fast for it's time, but terribly outclassed and vulnerable by the time it went to War.
	www.xs4all.nl /~fbonne/warbirds/ww2htmls/handhamp.html (690 words)

	WRG - Allied Aviation Annex - British Aircraft Specs - Handley Page Hampden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Hampden was a truly outstanding aircraft that was one of the last bombers to enter RAF service before the outbreak of WWII.
		Nearly the equal of the larger Whitley and Wellington in regards to range and payload, it was nearly as fast as the Blenheim and carried twice the load twice as far.
		The Hampden was a pleasant aircraft to fly and thanks to flapped and slatted wings had a relatively slow landing speed of 73 mph.
	www.warbirdsresourcegroup.org /AARG/hampden.html (338 words)

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		One of the Hampden's major weaknesses was that it was nearly toothless: It could deliver only a modest bomb load of 4,000 pounds, unlike the Avro Lancaster, which would eventually pulverize German targets with bombs as large as 22,000 pounds.
		The Hampden was further limited by the only bomb that the British had in quantity, the 250-pound "General Purpose" high-explosive bombs which dated from the First World War and often proved to be duds.
		In its original configuration, the Hampden was armed with a single, dorsally mounted gun covering the sky above and behind the aircraft; another single gun in the belly which was sighted to fire on targets behind and below the aircraft, and a gun in the nose which was operated by the pilot.
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	Bristol Pegasus XVIII (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		This engine is from a Handley Page Hampden that crashed on Mount Tuam, Salt Spring Island, at 20:10 hours, January 14, 1944.
		The Hampden exploded on impact and the pilot was killed instantly.
		Hampdens were difficult to fly and there was significant attrition from accidents.
	www.bcam.net /engines/bristpeg.htm (251 words)

	Handley Page Hampden of 49 Squadron flown and signed by Sgt J Flint GM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		The Handley Page Hampden can best be described as a curious aircraft, as it bore little resemblence to any other from Bomber Command in the RAF.
		Viewing the aircraft from the front with the DF loop deployed the profile of the fuselage gave rise to the nickname of the Hampden 'The Flying Suitcase'.
		The Hampden had a crew of three (pilot, navigator and gunner) each of whom sat in his own section of the fuselage.
	www.pewteraircraft.com /RAF/HAMPDEN/Hampdensigned.htm (319 words)

	Handley Page - Aircraft - H.P.57
		Second of the four-engine heavy bombers to enter service with the RAF, in November 1940, the Handley Page H.P.57 Halifax was one of the famous triad comprised of the Halifax, Avro Lancaster and Short Stirling which mounted Bomber Command's night-bombing offensive against Germany.
		Handley Page's H.P.56 proposal was selected for prototype construction, but the company had doubts that the Vulture engine would emerge as a reliable production powerplant, and set about the task of redesigning the H.P.56 to take four Rolls-Royce Merlins instead.
		On 3rd September 1937 Handley Page was awarded a contract for the manufacture of two prototypes of the H.P.57, with construction beginning in early 1938.
	www.handleypage.com /Aircraft_hp57.html (1760 words)

	CMF Collection - Handley Page Hampden
		The Handley Page Hampden was not a great aircraft, however, it served Bomber Command with Distinction during the dark early days of WWII, after which it was relegated to Coastal Command and as a crew trainer at various Operational Training Units.
		Of 1430 Hampdens manufactured, 160 were built in Canada by the "Victory Aircraft" consortium of 3 Ontario and 3 Quebec aircraft companies as an "educational project" to build up the Canadian aircraft industry and expertise for building the 4-engined Short Stirling bomber.
		The four-seat Hampden was the last of the twin-engine medium bombers to go into service during the expansion of Bomber Command in the late 1930's.
	www.canadianflight.org /collect/col_11.htm (926 words)

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	Armstrong Whitworth Whitley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Along with the Handley Page Hampden and the Vickers Wellington, it bore the brunt of the early fighting, seeing action on the first night of the war, dropping leaflets over Germany.
		Along with Hampdens, the Whitley made the first raid on German soil, dropping bombs on the night of March 19-20, 1940.
		This page was last modified 00:10, 31 May 2005.
	www.bonneylake.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Armstrong_Whitworth_Whitley (485 words)

	Appendix 5 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Thirty-two Hampdens from the two squadrons left Sumburgh in the Shetlands on 4 September 1942, but nine were lost in the crossing, including two which crashed in Norway and one which crashed on landing in Russia.
		No 455 was the last operational unit with Hampdens, continuing to operate from Sumburgh, and sinking a U-boat on 4 April 1943, before re-equipping with Bristol Beaufighters at the end of the year.
		In all, 1,432 Hampdens were built, 502 of them by Handley Page, 770 by English Electric and 160 in Canada.
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	About Page
		This was the Handley Page HP.38, and 99 Squadron together with No. 9 Squadron, were chosen to test fly and evaluate the aeroplane at Upper Heyord.
		The principal aircraft type between April 1940 and 1942 was the Handley Page Hampden.
		Before training on Hampdens finally ceased, the OTU sent another mixed force of 11 Wellingtons and 19 Hampdens on the second 'Millennium' raid to Essen; but for the third Thousand Bomber raid, on Breman on 25-26 June, 23 Wellingtons were despatched.
	www.rafupperheyford.4t.com /about.html (4587 words)

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