Handley Page Hastings
Jul 22, 2023 22:51:07 GMT
Post by mickywest on Jul 22, 2023 22:51:07 GMT
When confronted with the C-54 Skymaster gifted to Churchill, Sir Frederick Handley Page reportedly said ' ' We could build that'
The intertwined RAF Hastings and BOAC Hermes programs started with the Hermes I G-AGSS which crashed on its first flight
The tailplane configuration proved problematic....both 10 and15degrees of dihedral were test flown on TE580
as was an ungainly looking 10degrees of anhedral as discussed on p5 of the A-B book
2 jeeps could be underslung and if necessary air-dropped from the Hastings
Hastings C.2 WD480 modified with a large ventral pannier which carried cameras and recording equipment for the RAE Farnborough
A much shorter ventral pannier on WD499, St Mawgan 1970 (with the RRE Pershore...the last Hastings C.2 built)....note the larger span tailplane of the C.2 set lower on the fuselage than on the C.1
TG503 Hastings T.5 with belly radome now preserved in Berlin
Hastings C.1 TG621 , fitted with long range tanks Lyneham, 1965
From 13Nov1950 the second Hastings prototype TE583 was flying with its outboard Hercules piston engines replaced by Sapphire turbojets as a testbed in the H-P Victor program...reportedly it could do 175knots level on the cruise power of just one Sapphire with the other Sapphire and both Hercules shut down. It continued Sapphire engine research for the NGTE and trials of the Victor crew door escape routine and was still flying in August 1954
The intertwined RAF Hastings and BOAC Hermes programs started with the Hermes I G-AGSS which crashed on its first flight
The tailplane configuration proved problematic....both 10 and15degrees of dihedral were test flown on TE580
as was an ungainly looking 10degrees of anhedral as discussed on p5 of the A-B book
2 jeeps could be underslung and if necessary air-dropped from the Hastings
Hastings C.2 WD480 modified with a large ventral pannier which carried cameras and recording equipment for the RAE Farnborough
A much shorter ventral pannier on WD499, St Mawgan 1970 (with the RRE Pershore...the last Hastings C.2 built)....note the larger span tailplane of the C.2 set lower on the fuselage than on the C.1
TG503 Hastings T.5 with belly radome now preserved in Berlin
Hastings C.1 TG621 , fitted with long range tanks Lyneham, 1965
From 13Nov1950 the second Hastings prototype TE583 was flying with its outboard Hercules piston engines replaced by Sapphire turbojets as a testbed in the H-P Victor program...reportedly it could do 175knots level on the cruise power of just one Sapphire with the other Sapphire and both Hercules shut down. It continued Sapphire engine research for the NGTE and trials of the Victor crew door escape routine and was still flying in August 1954
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