Handley Page HP.42

A procedural model built in Blender from the type’s published dimensions, painted as G-AAXC ‘Heracles’, a Handley Page H.P.42W (the H.P.45) of Imperial Airways in about 1931–34, flown on the European routes from Croydon: a large four-engined biplane airliner with unequal-span wings, the lower wing set at the bottom of the fuselage and the upper wing above it, two Bristol Jupiter XFBM radials on the upper wing either side of the fuselage and two on the lower wing, a corrugated metal forward fuselage with an enclosed flight deck, forward and aft passenger cabins with large square windows, a fabric-covered rear fuselage and a biplane tail with three fins and rudders, shown tail down on its main wheels and tail wheel: overall aluminium dope and bare metal, ‘HERACLES’ and ‘IMPERIAL AIRWAYS’ on the nose, ‘IMPERIAL AIRWAYS’ under the aft cabin windows, the black registration ‘G-AAXC’ on the rear fuselage, across the upper wing and under the lower wings, and varnished wooden propellers, as photographed in the early 1930s (none of the eight H.P.42s survives; the shape was taken from a published three-view, with the forward cabin changed to the H.P.42W’s five-window layout from photographs of G-AAXC and its sister G-AAXF; the starboard aft-cabin lettering is assumed to mirror the port side, and the small stencil by the tail is unreadable in photographs). Drag to orbit, scroll or pinch to zoom · all 295 models · download .glb (2.0 MB) · Plate 64 in The Hangar