Handley Page HP 47

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Hi all - I hope someone can help me identify the acompanying drawing. It's drawn by Doug Rolfe and I scanned it from a 1952 Air Trails magazine. I've looked for it in my own library and on through Google. All he called it was "Handly Page Bomber - 1935". I'd like to know a bit more about it - like its name, so I can file the drawing away.
Any help would be most appreciated.
Thanks, John
 

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Hi Tomac!

It appears to be a Handley Page H.P.47.

Design Specification G.4/31.

I can provide a three-view if you'd like.

SOURCE:
The British Bomber Since 1914
Author: Francis Mason
Putnam Aeronautical Books

Chuck Anderson
 
Hi Tomac!

I've got to obey the Forum Rules about posting copyrighted material, so I'm sending you the 3-view to your e-mail address!

See you in a sec' !!!

Chuck
 
A simple Google image search on "Handley Page H.P.47." will also provide you photos of the real thing.

Regards,

Greg
 
Hi,

I can't ID this airplane drawing ?,who can help ?.

http://www.avia-it.com/act/biblioteca/periodici/PDF%20Riviste/Ala%20d'Italia/L'ALA%20D'ITALIA%201935%2008.pdf
 

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Hi!

Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley_Page_H.P.47
"The Handley Page H.P.47 was a British single-engined low-wing monoplane built to an Air Ministry specification for a general-purpose bomber and torpedo bomber aircraft. Only one was built."

"Behind the radial Bristol Pegasus IM3 engine, producing 650 hp (485 kW) and enclosed in a Townend ring, the semi-monocoque, corrugated skinned fuselage grew in diameter to the pilot's midwing cockpit then remaining constant rearwards to the gunner's position. He sat facing rearwards below the upper fuselage line and out of the slipstream, at a point where the fuselage stepped to a slim and narrowing oval boom. There was usable space inside the fuselage between the cockpits, enough to carry three passengers or two stretcher cases. All the tail surfaces moved; the fin, mounted ahead of the tailplane, moved with the horn-balanced rudder but through smaller angles, changing the camber, and the tailplane and single elevator were similarly coupled. "

"General characteristics
Crew: two
Length: 37 ft 7½ in (11.51 m)
Wingspan: 58 ft (17.7 m)
Height: ()
Wing area: 438 ft2 (40.7 m2)
Empty weight: 5,362 lb (2,435 kg)
Loaded weight: 7,708 lb (3,500 kg)
Powerplant: 1 × Bristol Pegasus IIIM 9-cylinder radial, 690 (515)

Performance
Maximum speed: 161 mph (245 km/h)
Range: 1,250 miles (2,150 km)
Service ceiling: 19,900 ft (5,940 m)

Armament
Guns: 1 ×0.303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers machine gun fixed forward firing and 1× 0.303 in Lewis machine gun on high speed mounting in rear cockpit"

Picture source
http://www.airteamimages.com/handley-page-h.p.47_K2773_united-kingdom---royal-air-force_116911.html
http://richard.ferriere.free.fr/3vues/H-3vues.html
http://picssr.com/photos/68286707@N00/page4?nsid=68286707@N00
http://www.aviastar.org/air/england/handley_hp-47.php
http://aviadejavu.ru/Site/Crafts/Craft34577.htm
Bottom picture explanation.
"The unusual tail arrangement of the H.P.47 is well shown in these photographs. As the fin and rudder are ahead of the horizontal tail surfaces they are not "blanketed" at large angles of incidence. The picture on the right gives a good idea of the view and field of fire obtained by the rear gunner. "
 

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