First flight of the Handley-Page HP.42, November 14, 1930, from Handley-Page Aerodrome, Radlett, Herts. The "German challenge" was the Junkers G.38, a 30-seat monoplane which first flew late in 1929. The famous Dornier Do X flying boat was of course much larger, but not a land plane. As Mr Handley-Page points out, the liner came in 2 models: HP.42E for the eastern air routes (Cairo based), carrying 24 passengers plus extra freight and mails, and HP.42W for the western (European) routes, capacity 40 passengers. Four of each type were built, serving with Imperial Airways from 1931-'39 and then impressed into the RAF. All were destroyed in various accidents by 1941, including the herein featured "Hannibal", lost at sea with 8 aboard over the Gulf of Oman in 1940.
If that’s Australian then I’m guessing Chinese is an American accent, bro it’s a English upperclassman accent, such a great video which proves us British were indeed the country that excelled in long range flights such ashame none of such are preserved in a flying museum in East Lothian, Scotland
@@agb1953 In that time and place, they did indeed use the word machine as a synonym for aircraft. You’ll find quite a few old aviation videos on RU-vid with the same parlance in use.
@@Puffmac1 No, people did not use machine to mean aircraft. Flying machine? Yep. Just machine? Nope. Are you really so goofy that you believe anybody ever saw an airplane in the sky, pointed to it, and said, "Look at the machine"? Really? Really?
