#handley-page type o

[iwannakissasopwithcamel]

Markgraf Volksfestung A - "The People's Doomsday Device"

Role: Strategic Bomber Served With: Kingdom of Sopwith First Flight: 1596 Strengths: Bombload, Turrets Weaknesses: Expensive to Run Inspiration: Handley-Page o/400 (1916)

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Among the grimmest of the Kingdom of Sopwith’s policies was the Volksfestung Program, where villages were given responsibility to maintain, train on, and if needed fly a heavy bomber. The industrial outlay involved was immense, each aircraft requiring enough engines and guns for two scouts. Some Volksfestungs were even rebuilt as ‘Dammbrechers’, carrying a single 750kg bomb.

To build enough aircraft to equip a full bombing force and then hold them completely in reserve involved bankrupting the previously-rich Kingdom of Sopwith entirely and levying punitive taxes at all levels of society.

When the time came, these bombers had somewhere to come back to. Bombers, fewer each day, returned to the villages, loved ones snatching moments as they were refuelled and rearmed and taken aloft again. Eventually no bombers came back. The pilots and aircraft had scattered across the continent, preferring to risk the kindness of their victims to having to fly one more gas mission.

[dieselfutures]

Deraa: The Arab Welcome to the First Handley Page Machine to Arrive in Palestine, 22 September 1918 - Stuart Reid

[thisdayinwwi]

May 10 1919 "Handley Page Type O heavy bomber of No. 48 Squadron RAF on patrol in the neighbourhood of Bonn" by Brooke, John Warwick (Lieutenant) (Photographer) IWM (Q 7605) IWM (Q 7603) IWM (Q 7599)

[wildyoungboy]

[May 10 1919] IWM (Q 7605) Handley Page Type O heavy bomber of No. 48 Squadron RAF on patrol in the neighbourhood of Bonn

[hjfoley]

From London To Paris By Air circa 1923

From London To Paris By Air circa 1923

  Jeff Quitney Published on 7 Jun 2016

Early airline travel between London and Paris. The airline is Handley Page Transport Ltd.; the aircraft are Handley Page Type O (converted World War I bombers). The fare was 300 francs, equal to about $25 then (or $350 in 2016).

“The daily trip of one of the huge passenger planes in the English Channel Service. Arrived at the flying field we watch the plane…

[dieselfutures]

Handley Page Type O

[thisdayinwwi]

Jul 10 1917 Ottoman Yâdigâr-ı-Millet (aka Jadhigar-i-Millet) S165-class Destroyer was bombed & sunk by a British Handley Page Type O Bomber in Constantinople