Handley Page Harrow

[Chris Spierings]

Does anyone happen to know what the airfoil used on the 30s era Handley Page
Harrow was? A friend is scratch building a model of one and would like to
use the scale airfoil.

Thanks

Chris

[robert arndt]

"Chris Spierings" > wrote in message >...
> Does anyone happen to know what the airfoil used on the 30s era Handley Page
> Harrow was? A friend is scratch building a model of one and would like to
> use the scale airfoil.
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris


Which Harrow are you talking about- the HP31 torpedo carrier or HP54
bomber? I don't know about the airfoil question but the HP54 in 1940
was used as an aerial minelayer in operation "Pandora". These aircraft
carried LAMs (Long Aerial Mines) which were small explosives on
parachutes that trailed a 2,000 ft piano wire. They were dropped in
front of the German bombers and at least 5 kills were made before the
idea was scrapped.
Sorry this doesn't answer your question but I thought I'd throw in
that little known information anyway.
Good luck.

Rob

p.s. The Germans also tried out the suspended cable bomb idea during
the war as well as fighters dropping bombs directly over the bomber
streams (some of which were fitted with acoustic sensors and guidance
systems to steer them onto target). Concrete bombs were tested as
well...

[Tex Houston]

"Chris Spierings" > wrote in message
...
> Does anyone happen to know what the airfoil used on the 30s era Handley
Page
> Harrow was? A friend is scratch building a model of one and would like to
> use the scale airfoil.
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris

You might want to try rec.models.scale for model building information.

Regards,

Tex

[Keith Willshaw]

"robert arndt" > wrote in message
om...
> "Chris Spierings" > wrote in message
>...
> > Does anyone happen to know what the airfoil used on the 30s era Handley
Page
> > Harrow was? A friend is scratch building a model of one and would like
to
> > use the scale airfoil.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Chris
>
>
> Which Harrow are you talking about- the HP31 torpedo carrier or HP54
> bomber?

Only a single HP31 was ever completed and that was in 1926 so it hardly
fiits
the bill.


I don't know about the airfoil question but the HP54 in 1940
> was used as an aerial minelayer in operation "Pandora". These aircraft
> carried LAMs (Long Aerial Mines) which were small explosives on
> parachutes that trailed a 2,000 ft piano wire. They were dropped in
> front of the German bombers and at least 5 kills were made before the
> idea was scrapped.

The HP-54 was mainly used as a transport with the last flight
re-equipping with Dakota's in May 1945

Keith

[Jonathan Stilwell]

"Chris Spierings" > wrote in message
...
> Does anyone happen to know what the airfoil used on the 30s era Handley
Page
> Harrow was? A friend is scratch building a model of one and would like to
> use the scale airfoil.

Unfortunately the Putnam book (Handley Page Aircraft since 1907, ISBN
0-85177-803-9), doesn't say. Neither do any of the other obvious sources I
have. Forgotten Bombers of the Royal Air Force, by Ken Wixey (ISBN
1-85409-306-1) has a relatively detailed description of the wing structure,
but not the aerofoil. However, it does say that "Dr Lachmann based the
cantilever monoplane wing on that of the earlier H.P. 47 general purpose
monoplane". Of the H.P. 47, the Putnam says "Lachmann proposed a low-wing
cantilever monoplane with a uniformly tapered wing of RAF 34 section". It
doesn't specifically say whether or not that was used, but it doesn't
mention that proposal being changed.

Jon.