The March issue of Aeroplane has an excellent article on the O/100 and O/400.
Seventeen pages of pictures, drawings, and specs.
The March issue of Aeroplane has an excellent article on the O/100 and O/400.
Seventeen pages of pictures, drawings, and specs.
Cool, thanks.
Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!
We've only seen the Goethas and Cabronis so far, right? Were are these elusive Handley Page minis!?
Is the Skytrex offering the only O/100 available? Australia only had one as far as I know, but I would like to model it
Dave
The nacelles are different, otherwise they're dimensionally the same.Operational experience with the O/100 showed that certain changes were desirable, especially to the fuel system. In the original layout each engine had its own armoured fuel tank contained within the armoured nacelle which housed the engine, restricting the amount of fuel which could be carried. The modified fuel system consisted of two fuselage tanks and two gravity-fed tanks installed in the leading edge of the upper wing's centre-section. Wind-driven pumps supplied fuel direct to the engines, as well as to the gravity-fed tanks. Removal of the fuel tanks from the nacelles allowed them to be shortened and a new inter-plane strut to be fitted immediately aft of each nacelle.
Other improvements included the provision of a compressed-air engine-starting system, with a crank handle for manual start in the event of pressure loss, and changes to the rear gun position and central fin. In this new configuration this variant of the O/100 was redesignated O/400. An initial contract for 100 of these aircraft was awarded to Handley Page in August 1917.
Bowyer states the version serving with the AFC was an O/400 anyway, not an O/100.
So does the Australian War Memorial.
1 Squadron AFC operated a single 0/400, which was flown out to Palestine in July 1918 and heavily employed during the last great offensive against the Turks, which began with the battle of Megiddo on 19 September. 1 Squadron also used the 0/400 to ferry supplies, including one trip on 23 September 1918 in support of the Arab forces operating under the command of T. E. Lawrence (better known as "Lawrence of Arabia").
Sorry about that Guntruck, I missed your post.
Thanks Zoe, teach me to go by memory without checking my references
Dave
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