Handley-Page 0/400
| Manufacturer: | Handley-Page Ltd. |
| Power Plant: | 2 x 275 h.p. Rolls-Royce Eagle water-cooled motors. |
| Span: | 100 ft. 0 ins. (upper) 70 ft. 0 ins. (lower) |
| Length: | 62 ft. 10 ins. |
| Height: | 22 ft. 0 ins. |
| Chord: | 10 ft. 0 ins. |
| Stagger: | none. |
| Gap: | n/a. |
| Performance: @ 6500ft: @10000ft: |
79 mph. 68 mph. |
| Ceiling: | 10,000 ft. |
| Armament: | single synchronized Vickers gun mounted on the port side of the fuselage. |
 The genius of Sir
Frederick Handley-Page as a pioneer of the large aeroplane and the foresight of the
Admiralty in recognizing the possibilities of such machines in aerial warfare were jointly
responsible for the Handley-Page 0/400 bomber, which can justly claim to be the first
successful heavy bomber to go into regular squadron service anywhere in the world.The 0/400 was the largest aeroplane used against
the Germans by British squadrons in the Great War and it laid the foundations of heavy
bomber design for the next 10 or 15 years. It became so famous that for years after the
war all large aeroplanes were described as "Handley-Pages" by the British
public. |
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