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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. Along with the Whitley and Wellington bombers, the Hampden bore the brunt of the early bombing war over Europe, taking part in the first night raid on Berlin and the first 1,000-plane raid on Cologne. The newest of the three medium bombers, the Hampden, known as the ""Flying Suitcase", was still unsuited to the modern air war and, after operating mainly at night, it was retired from Bomber Command service in late 1942. Handley Page Hampden medium bomber. ... A medium bomber is a bomber aircraft designed to operate with medium bombloads over medium distances; primarily to distinguish them from the much larger heavy bombers and smaller light bombers. ... The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the UK Armed Forces. ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km (over 11 miles) into the air, August 9, 1945 after the Allied atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. ... The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley was one of three twin-engine, front-line medium bombers in service with the Royal Air Force at the outbreak of World War II. Along with the Handley Page Hampden and the Vickers Wellington, it bore the brunt of the early fighting, seeing... The Vickers Wellington was a twin-engine, medium bomber designed in the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey, by Vickers-Armstrongs Chief Designer, R.K. Pierson. ... A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ...   Berlin? (pronounced: , German ) is the capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,426,000 inhabitants (as of January 2005); down from 4. ... Cologne skyline at night. ... RAF Bomber Command was the organisation that controlled the RAFs bomber forces. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1942: Events January January 30 - Canadian Pacific Air Lines formed by the acquisition and merger of Arrow Airways and Canadian Airways, along with all the various subsidiaries of the latter. ... 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. The first production batch of 180 Mk I Hampdens was built to specification 30/36. No. 49 Squadron received the first Hampdens in September 1938 and a total of 226 were in operation with eight squadrons at the start of the war. The Handley Page Aircraft Company was founded by Frederick Handley Page in 1909. ... The Air Ministry was formerly a department of the United Kingdom Government, established in 1918 with the responsibility of managing the affairs of the (then newly formed) Royal Air Force. ... June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1936: Events February February 13 - Imperial Airways commences airmail services to West Africa March March 23 - Impreial Airways begins scheduled flights between Hong Kong and Malaysia. ... 1938 was a common year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Mk I had a crew of four; pilot, navigator/bomb aimer, radio operator and rear gunner. The Hampden carried a similar bomb load to the other mediums (Wellington and Whitley) but was almost as fast as the Blenheim yet could carry four times the payload over twice the range. Originally conceived as a fast, manoeuvrable "fighting bomber", the Hampden featured a fixed .303-in Vickers K machine gun fitted in the forward fuselage. To avoid the weight penalties of powered-turrets, the Hampden had a curved Perspex nose fitted with a manual .303-in Lewis gun and two more Lewis guns located in the rear upper and lower positions. The theory was flawed and the guns were thoroughly inadequate for defence so by 1940 the Lewis guns had been replaced by twin Vickers K guns. The Bristol Type 142 Blenheim was a high-speed light bomber used extensively in the early days of World War II, built by Bristol Aeroplane Company. ... 203. ... A machine gun is a fully-automatic firearm that is capable of firing bullets in rapid succession. ... Perspex is a trade name in the United Kingdom for polymethyl methacrylate. ... The Lewis Gun was a pre-WWI era British machine gun that continued to see service all the way through WWII. It is visually distinctive because of the wide tubular cooling shroud around the barrel, and the top mounted drum magazines. ... Despite its speed and agility, the Hampden was no match for Luftwaffe fighters so its career as a day bomber was brief. It continued to operate at night, on bombing raids over Germany and mine-laying in the North Sea. After being withdrawn from Bomber Command service in 1942, it operated with Coastal Command through 1943 as a long-range torpedo bomber (travelling as far as northern Russia) and a maritime reconnaissance aircraft. As well as the Royal Air Force, teh Hampden was used by the RCAF and the RNZAF. The Luftwaffe (literally, air weapon, pronounced looft-vaaf-feh) is the air force of Germany. ... The North Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, located between the coasts of Norway and Denmark in the east, the coast of the British Isles in the west, and the German, Dutch, Belgian and French coasts in the south. ... Coastal Command was an organization within the Royal Air Force tasked with protecting the United Kingdom from naval threats. ... This is a list of aviation-related events from 1943: Events January January 27 - the USAAF makes its first daylight raid on Germany January 30 - Royal Air Force de Havilland Mosquitos make the first daylight air-raid on Berlin January 30-31 – the H2S radar is used by RAF bombers... A torpedo bomber is a bomber aircraft designed primarily to attack ships with torpedoes, but they could also carry out conventional bombings. ... The Royal Air Force (often abbreviated to RAF) is the air force branch of the UK Armed Forces. ... The RCAF Roundel is based on that of the British Royal Air Force with a maple leaf, a symbol of Canada in the centre. ... The Royal New Zealand Air Force or RNZAF is the air operations arm of the New Zealand Defence Force. ... The Hampden was powered by a pair of 980 hp Bristol Pegasus XVIII 9-cylinder radial engines. A Mk II Hampden was designed, powered by two 1,000 hp Wright Cyclone engines but it never went into production. Bristol Pegasus piston engine The Pegasus was a 9 cylinder one_row radial aircraft engine designed as the follow-on to the Bristol Aeroplane Companys very successful Bristol Jupiter, following lessons learned in the Mercury effort. ... Wright Cyclone was the name given to a family of air-cooled radial piston engines designed by Curtiss-Wright, and used in numerous American aircraft in the 1930s and 1940s. ... 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. The Handley Page Aircraft Company was founded by Frederick Handley Page in 1909. ... The English Electric Company was formed in 1918 and, during that year and 1919, acquired control of Dick, Kerr & Co of Preston, England, Willans & Robinson of Rugby , England, and the Phoenix Dynamo Manufacturing Company of Bradford. ... In 1936 the RAF had also ordered 150 variants of the Hampden, designated the HP.53 Hereford. These were powered by a pair of 1,000 hp Napier Dagger VIII 24-cylinder H-type air-cooled inline engines but problems with the powerplant resulted in most of those built (by Short & Harland) being re-engined as Hampdens. The surviving Herefords served in training units only. Harland and Wolff Heavy Industries began as a shipyard located in Belfast, Northern Ireland. ... A preserved Hampden survives in Canada Contents 1 Specifications (Mk I) 1.1 General characteristics 1.2 Performance 1.3 Armament 2 Related content 3 See also Specifications (Mk I) General characteristics Crew: 4 Length: 53 ft 7 in (16.33 m) Wingspan: 69 ft 2 in (21.98 m) Height: 14 ft 4 in (4.37 m) Wing area: 688 ft² (63.9 m²) Weight Empty: 11,780 lb (5,344 kg) Loaded: 18,756 lb (8,508 kg) Maximum takeoff: lb ( kg) Powerplant: 2 x Bristol Pegasus XVIII 9-cylinder radial engines,980 hp (730 kW) each Bristol Pegasus piston engine The Pegasus was a 9 cylinder one_row radial aircraft engine designed as the follow-on to the Bristol Aeroplane Companys very successful Bristol Jupiter, following lessons learned in the Mercury effort. ... Radial engine of a biplane. ... Performance Maximum speed: 265 mph at 15,500 ft (410 km/h at 4,724 m) Range: 1,095 miles (1,762 km) Service ceiling: 19,000 ft (5,790 m) Rate of climb: 980 ft/min (300 m/min) Wing loading: 27.3 lb/ft² (133 kg/m²) Power/mass: 0.104 hp/lb (0.172 kW/kg) Armament 6 x .303 in (7.7 mm) Vickers K machine guns. two each in nose, dorsal and ventral positons 4,000 lb (1,814 kg) bombs or 1 x 18 in torpedo or mines .303 cartridge The . ... Vickers Gas Operated Type Machine gun Nationality UK Era History Date of design Production period Service duration Operators UK War service Specifications Type Calibre 0. ... A modern torpedo, historically called a self propelled torpedo, is a self-propelled guided projectile that (after being launched above or below the water surface) operates underwater and is designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. ... A naval mine is a stationary self-contained explosive device placed in water, to destroy ships and/or submarines. ... Related content Related development: Handley Page Hereford Comparable aircraft: Armstrong Whitworth Whitley - Vickers Wellington The Armstrong Whitworth A.W.38 Whitley was one of three twin-engine, front-line medium bombers in service with the Royal Air Force at the outbreak of World War II. Along with the Handley Page Hampden and the Vickers Wellington, it bore the brunt of the early fighting, seeing... The Vickers Wellington was a twin-engine, medium bomber designed in the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey, by Vickers-Armstrongs Chief Designer, R.K. Pierson. ... Designation series: HP.47 - HP.50 - HP.51 - HP.52 - HP.53 - HP.54 - HP.56 - HP.57 The Handley Page Heyford was a British biplane bomber of the 1930s. ... Halifax W1057 ZA-X of No. ... Halifax W1057 ZA-X of No. ... See also List of aircraft of the RAF List of aircraft of the RNZAF Many aircraft types have served in the Royal Air Force since it was formed in 1918 by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and Royal Naval Air Service. ... This is a list of aircraft of the Royal New Zealand Air Force and Royal New Zealand Navy. ... Lists of Aircraft | Aircraft manufacturers | Aircraft engines | Aircraft engine manufacturers This list of aircraft is sorted alphabetically, beginning with the name of the manufacturer (or, in certain cases, designer). ... This is a list of aircraft manufacturers (in alphabetic order). ... List of aircraft engines - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... This is a list of aircraft engine manufacturers both past and present. ... Airports | Airlines | Air forces | Aircraft weapons | Missiles | Timeline of aviation This is a list of airlines in operation. ... This is a list of Air Forces, sorted alphabetically by country. ... This is a list of aircraft weapons, past and present. ... Below is a list of (links to pages on) missiles, sorted alphabetically by country of origin. ... This is a timeline of aviation history. ... Categories: British bomber aircraft 1930-1939

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