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G-AAXC Heracales, a Handley Page H.P.45 biplane airliner

G-AAXC Heracales, a Handley Page H.P.45 British four-engine biplane airliner designed to a 1928 Imperial Airways specification by Handley Page of Radlett in Hertfordshire. Impressed into service with the RAF in 1940, the aircraft was destroyed in a gale at Whitchurch Airport, Bristol, when it was blown into an H.P.42 (Hanno) and damaged beyond repair

Picture No
10982626
Media ID
48068222
Size
2953px x 1102px (426KB)
Credit
© The Russell Butcher Collection / Mary Evans Picture Library
Source
Unattributed line drawing
Date
circa 1931

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