Handley Page H.P.42 Heracles - 1:144 scale

Airfix Handley Page H.P.42 Heracles in 1:144 scale. Comprehensive pictorial instructions are included together with decals for two examples.

The H.P.42 was an elegant four-engined biplane airliner from the early days of passenger air travel, designed to serve the Empire air routes into the Middle East, Africa and India. It carried its passengers in some style. With the engines mounted well away from the passenger cabin, travel in the H.P 42 was relatively quiet and likened to travelling in a first-class Pullman railway carriage, This was just as well because the aircraft's cruising speed of just 105 mph meant that any journey was likely to be a long one! One pilot likened the experience to flying a Spanish Galleon.

The completed model measures:

Length: 22.5cm
Width: 19cm
Wingspan: 27.7 cm
Pieces: 74