Aeroplane Monthly 1986-02 / J.Stroud - Wings of Peace

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: D8350   [8], G-EAAE   [8]

The O/400 D8350 before receiving its civil registration but with G on the rudders.

История Авиации 2002-05 / С.Корж - Коммерческая авиация /Ретроспектива/ (4)

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: D8350   [8], G-EAAE   [8]

Один из первых пассажирских O/400.

История Авиации 2002-05 / С.Корж - Коммерческая авиация /Ретроспектива/ (4)

Над Рейном один из переоборудованных бомбардировщиков O/400 из состава 48-й эскадрильи Королевских ВВС в ходе очередного полета по обеспечению оккупационных войск в Германии.

Air Pictorial 1958-07 / Scrapbook

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-5417   [2], F5417   [2], G-EAAW   [2]

Unusual "G-5417" (ex F-5417) temporary civil registration (later G-EAAW) was applied initially for the London-Brussels thrice-weekly air service (twelve passengers, two crew) which started on 22nd September 1919. This O/400 (contractor unknown) had two 360-h.p. Rolls-Royce Eagle VIIIs.

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-02 / K.Desmond - H.P. (1)

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: F5417   [2], G-5417   [2], G-EAAW   [2]

Handley Page H P. 12 F5417, an O/400 civil conversion, lands at Cricklewood, watched by Indian troops. F5417 later became G-EAAW and flew with Handley Page Transport Ltd until withdrawn from use in April 1920.

Aeroplane Monthly 1996-05 / J.Meadows - A matter of dress

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EAAE   [8], D8350   [8]

H.P. O/400 G-EAAE, just before departure for Paris from Cricklewood on September 2, 1919. The wooden structures are propeller guards.
The pilot of a civil O/400 is girding his loins against the sub-zero 100 m.p.h. breeze with the aid of a leather greatcoat and a leopardskin helmet.
Early civilian flying attire was no different from that worn by the military. Keeping warm was the main essential. The aircraft is Handley Page H.P.12 G-EAAE Vulture, a converted O/400 bomber.

Flight 1920-02 / Flight

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EAAE   [8], D8350   [8]

At Cricklewood Aerodrome: Officially inaugurated London-Paris Handley Page service. Ready to start. The mechanics removing the propeller-guards
After the war, a number of O/400 bombers were converted into commercial aeroplanes. One of the first of these is shown here.

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-02 / J.Stroud - Wings of Peace

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EAAE   [8], D8350   [8]

Typical Cricklewood scene in 1919 with an unidentified O/400 in the foreground and G-EAAE beyond.

Flight 1922-02 / Flight

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EATK   [6], J2262   [6]

The Handley Page O-400 (2-400 "Jupiters"). Inset, in flight.

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-02 / J.Stroud - Wings of Peace

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EATK   [6], J2262   [6]

The O/10 G-EATK at Filton in February 1922 after being fitted with Bristol Jupiter engines. Gordon Olley, left, and Arthur Suddes of Bristol are in the cockpit.
"Jupiters" in the O/400. Since being installed, these engines have flown for some 25 hours, and have proved extremely powerful and reliable. With a total load which brought the all-on weight of the machine up to 12,000 lbs., the climb to 3,000 ft. was accomplished in 6 mins. 15 secs. The engines are started by means of the Bristol gas-starter.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-02 / Personal album. Civil

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EATK   [6], J2262   [6]

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-02 / Personal album. Civil

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EATK   [6], J2262   [6]

The view of the Handley Page O/10 G-EATK, ex J2262, registered to Handley Page Ltd in July 1920 and operated by Handley Page Transport Ltd. Between December 1921 and May 1922 it was fitted with a pair of Bristol Jupiter engines which greatly enhanced the performance. The picture shows Gordon Olley in the cockpit, left. After testing by Olley, 'TK was put into storage at Cricklewood in June 1922 and scrapped at the end of the year.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-08 / Cricklewood /Gone but not forgotten/ (4)

Aeroplane Monthly 1974-01 / P.Moss - Wings for the Empire (1)

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EAAG

H.P. O/400, G-EAAG, leaving Cricklewood.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-08 / Cricklewood /Gone but not forgotten/ (4)

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EAAE   [8], G-EASY   [2], D8350   [8]

A line up of Handley Page Transport aircraft at Cricklewood in 1919, including H.P.12 G-EAAE and H.P.10 G-EASY.

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-02 / J.Stroud - Wings of Peace

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EAAE   [8], D8350   [8]

The O/400 D8350 as G-EAAE, probably in August or September 1919.

История Авиации 2003-03 / С.Корж - Коммерческая авиация /Ретроспектива/ (8)

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EAAE   [8], D8350   [8]

Один из первых четырех поставленных HPT переоборудованных бомбардировщиков O/400 (рег. G-EAAE). Несмотря на то, что этот самолет получил сертификат типа еще в мае 1919г., фирм. N HP-16 был ему присвоен уже после появления в июле того же года первого "китайского" O/7, получившего фирм. N HP-1. На стабилизаторе приведенного на снимке самолета можно наблюдать рекламу бритв "Жиллетт", принадлежавших, очевидно, к ранним моделям типа "MACH 0,10" или "MACH 0,15".

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-02 / J.Stroud - Wings of Peace

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EAAF   [2]

Авиалайнер типа O/400 (рег. G-EAAF), первым из британских пассажирских самолетов получивший гражданский сертификат летной годности 1 мая 1919г. В августе 1919г. был переоборудован по стандарту O/7 (на снимке видны удлиненные мотогондолы). Впоследствии так и остался единственным O/7, применяемым на европейских авиалиниях, а в марте 1920г. первым среди авиалайнеров был оснащен беспроволочным радиотелеграфом.
The O/7 G-EAAF at Hounslow. Handley Page bought six of the “special" aircraft steps for a guinea!

Flight 1930-01 / Flight

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EAKG   [2]

The Handley Page biplane about to start on the first London-Paris service from Cricklewood in 1919

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-02 / J.Stroud - Wings of Peace

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EAKG   [2]

После того, как в феврале 1919 года Аэронавигационный билль получил королевское одобрение, фирма "Handley Page" организовала авиакомпанию, первоначально совершавшую полеты по маршруту Лондон - Париж. Позднее было установлено воздушное сообщение с Лионом, Марселем, Турином, Флоренцией и Римом. Четыре O/400 компании первыми в Британии получили сертификат летной годности.
The converted O/400 (H.P. O/10) G-EAKG, operated by Handley Page Transport Ltd, leaves Cricklewood en route for Paris (almost certainly, from Hounslow ???).

Flight 1920-02 / Flight

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EAMA   [3]

At Cricklewood Aerodrome: London-Paris Handley Page service. Unloading the freight from an H.P. on February 18, 1920, upon arrival at the aerodrome. Pilot Lieut. Beal on the extreme right

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-08 / Cricklewood /Gone but not forgotten/ (4)

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EAMA   [3]

Freight from Paris being unloaded from G-EAMA.

Air-Britain Archive 1981-02

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EANV   [3]

Handley Page O/7 G-EANV just minutes before it crashed, preparing to leave Beaufort West for Johannesburg on 19.2.20.

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-02 / J.Stroud - Wings of Peace

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EANV   [3]

The O/10 G-EANV while working for Handley Page Transport, before going to South Africa.

История Авиации 2003-03 / С.Корж - Коммерческая авиация /Ретроспектива/ (8)

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EASL

Один из первых грузопассажирских O/11 (рег. G-EASL).

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-02 / J.Stroud - Wings of Peace

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EASM

G-EASM, the second O/11 freighter. The cylindrical fuel tanks can be seen behind the engines.

Air Pictorial 1958-07 / Scrapbook

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EASO

Prepared for the abortive May 1919 "Air Cargo Race" (L10,000) - organised by the Daily Express - was this most powerful of all O/400s, G-EASO, fitted with two 450-h.p. Napier Lion Srs.IIs.

История Авиации 2003-03 / С.Корж - Коммерческая авиация /Ретроспектива/ (8)

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EASY   [2]

Пассажирская модификация O/11 получила обозначение O/10. На снимке приведен первый самолет этой модификации (рег. G-EASY).

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-02 / J.Stroud - Wings of Peace

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EATH

G-EATH, the last O/10 to remain in airline service.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-08 / Cricklewood /Gone but not forgotten/ (4)

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EATN   [2]

H.P. O/10 G-EATN leaves Cricklewood bound for the Continent in May 1921. G-EATN was for a time equipped with one of the first automatic pilots. It crashed in France in January 1922.

Flight 1921-05 / Flight

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EATK   [6], G-EATM   [4], G-EATN   [2], J2262   [6]

THE HANDLEY PAGE CRICKLEWOOD-PARIS AIR SERVICE: So great is the demand for tickets that not infrequently two machines have to be despatched on the same day. This was the case on Saturday of last week, when two machines left within a few minutes of one another. Our photographs show: (1) The two machines ready; (2) Mr. E. Cogni, general manager of the air service; (3) One of the machines off; (4) The machine leaving the aerodrome; (5) The passengers getting on board; (6) Some of the luggage being taken on board.

Aeroplane Monthly 1997-06

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EATK   [6], J2262   [6]

Luggage loaders at work with H.P. O/10 G-EATK. Note sophisticated luggage trailer with HPT emblazoned on it.
Passengers on this O/10 airliner, used by Handley Page Transport Ltd c 1921, could hardly fail to read the 4ft-high registration letters G-EATK as they hoarded for the Continent. Reggie spotting in those days was a piece of cake - see inset of same aircraft.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-08 / Cricklewood /Gone but not forgotten/ (4)

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EATM   [4]

Passengers boarding H.P.10 G-EATM in May 1921

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-09 / D.Lang - All-Weather Mac /Masters of the air/ (1)

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EATM   [4]

Handley Page Transport O/10 G-EATM in which Mac, now the airline’s chief pilot, flew the last international scheduled air service out of Cricklewood Aerodrome, London, to Le Bourget, Paris, on May 28, 1921. G-EATM is seen here at Le Bourget, from where Mac flew it back to Croydon on May 29, 1921.

Aeroplane Monthly 1978-02 / Personal album

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EATM   [4]

Handley Page O/10 G-EATM was operated by Handley Page Transport Ltd and flown on a daily service between Croydon and the Continent. It carried 12 passengers and was powered by two 360 h.p. Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII engines. ’TM crash-landed at Senlis, N. France, on December 30, 1921.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-09 / D.Lang - All-Weather Mac /Masters of the air/ (1)

The earliest known photograph of Mac, centre, holding the aeroplane logbook, taken in 1919, shortly after he was released by the RAF to join Handley Page Transport as a pilot. In those days civil aviation pilots did not wear uniform. He is standing next to a Handley Page civil O/10 with a mechanic and Capt E.D. Herne on his right and two passengers on his left.

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-02 / J.Stroud - Wings of Peace

HP-1 was the first O/7 and the first of six built for China.

АвиаМастер 2007-02 / А.Демин - Авиация Китая в эпоху гражданских войн /Неизвестные страницы/ (1)

8 мая 1920г. состоялось официальное открытие первой китайской гражданской авиалинии Пекин-Тяньцзинь. На старых газетных фотоснимках видны китайские и английские сотрудники авиалинии возле самолета "Хэндли Пэйдж" O/400 на пекинском аэродроме. Но этот бывший бомбардировщик совсем не долго возил пассажиров и почту. Вскоре его основной нагрузкой вновь стали авиабомбы...

АвиаМастер 2007-02 / А.Демин - Авиация Китая в эпоху гражданских войн /Неизвестные страницы/ (1)

Командующий маньчжурской авиацией Чжан Сюэлян (слева) и его помощник генерал Яо перед полетом на "Хэндли Пейдже" O/400.

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-02 / J.Stroud - Wings of Peace

Looking forward through the cabin of an O/7. The door to the cockpit is on the left of the bulkhead.

Air-Britain Archive 1981-01

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EANV   [3]

A visual problem to begin with - and earlier than the extracts below! The photograph must have been taken on or shortly after 23.2.20, but where and of what?
The aircraft involved was of course G-EANV a Handley Page O/400 converted to O/7 in October 1919 and operated by the manufacturers initially on London-Brussels mail flights. It became the first equipment of the newly-formed Handley Page South African Transport Company but there are two versions to describe its passage, one that it was flown out by Major McIntyre, the other perhaps more realistic that it was shipped to Cape Town 11.19 on RMS Durban Castle and assembled at the Company's airfield at Wynberg. It first flew from Wynberg on 7.2.20 and one week later was named "Pioneer" on the airfield's official opening.
The first passenger and aerial mail service from Cape Town to Johannesburg was planned for February 15th 1920, meanwhile the aircraft had been used for local flights and as an airborne advertisement for Commando Brandy, hence the huge lettering which is clearly visible in the photographs. The flight began according to plan but a faulty compass and a fuel leakage resulted in a safe forced landing at an isolated location 50 miles from Sutherland. Fuel supplies were eventually obtained and Pioneer continued to Beaufort West on the 19th, four days behind schedule. At 1.30 pm the flight was resumed with Major H.C."Duke" Meintjies in command, co-pilot Capt.C.J."Boet" Venter, engineer Askew and six passengers including the Company Secretary Capt. Duncan and Mrs.Meintjies. Eight minutes later at 300 feet the starboard rudder post came adrift and the aircraft went into a dive. The pilot managed to execute a crash landing with little height to spare, the location being Acacia Siding (or Lemoenfontein Siding ?) although the date is often quoted as 23.2.20, possibly this is the date on which news reached England.

Air-Britain Archive 1981-02

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-AENV

One more shot of 'Pioneer' at rest - complete with aforementioned BSAP officer!

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-08 / Cricklewood /Gone but not forgotten/ (4)

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EAMA   [3]

The still-smouldering wreckage of H.P.12 G-EAMA at Golders Green on December 14, 1920.

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-02 / J.Stroud - Wings of Peace

Регистрационный номерRegistry number: G-EAAF   [2]

KEITH WOODCOCK'S painting shows Handley Page Transport's O/7 G-EAAF as it was in August 1919.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-09 / D.Lang - All-Weather Mac /Masters of the air/ (1)

A contemporary timetable of services to Paris and Brussels provided by Handley Page Transport from Cricklewood.