Handley Page H.P. 119

[Barrington Bond]

Handley Page H.P.119 - scale prototype of 117.

 

[Retrofit]

Woow, many, many thanks for sharing.

 

[Johnbr]

Cool looking plane.

 

[cluttonfred]

Source?

 

[hesham]

Hi,

and may be it was developed from this;

http://www.secretprojects.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,3428.0/highlight,hp+117.html

 

[Barrington Bond]

"Source?"

Handley Page pamphlet/brochure (National Aerospace Library, Farnborough) possibly dated May 1961 . This was the only pic/diagram - though quite large.

Regards,
Barry

 

[JFC Fuller]

Barry,

Excellent find! If it had been built, and had it of worked (a big if) the flying wing HP.117 could have been an incredibly efficient airliner, perhaps in hindsight its what Concorde should have been. The HP.119 confirms that HP was planning a scale demonstrator, perhaps the HP.130 was a product of the failure to get the HP.119 of the ground?

In fact the more I look at the design lineage it seems like the HP.130/135 were an effort at a more conventional boundary layer control aircraft than the earlier flying wing HP.117/119. With that said, in its latter configurations the HP.117 acquired what could be described as a fuselage, so perhaps the HP.135 was a natural evolution?