The Handley Page HP.88 was a British research aircraft built in the early 1950s to test the aerodynamics of the crescent wing of the Handley Page Victor, carrying a 0.36 scale version of that wing and the Victor's T-tail. It was designed to Air Ministry specification E.6/48 and based on the fuselage of the Supermarine Attacker, which became the Supermarine 521, with detail design contracted to General Aircraft and then Blackburn at Brough. A single Rolls-Royce Nene 102 turbojet powered it. It first flew on 21 June 1951 at Carnaby and went to Handley Page at Stansted on 6 August. On 26 August 1951, rehearsing for the Farnborough air display, it began a pitching oscillation during a high-speed pass and broke up in mid-air, a servo instability in the tailplane control system being the cause. It had flown 14 hours in 26 sorties over 36 days, and its loss mattered little to the V bomber project.
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The Handley Page HP.88 was a British research aircraft, built in the early 1950s for Handley Page to test the aerodynamics of the Victor crescent wing design, and was intended to be a scaled-down version of that aircraft.
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The Handley Page HP.88 was a British research aircraft, built in the early 1950s for Handley Page to test the aerodynamics of the Victor crescent wing design, and was intended to be a scaled-down version of that aircraft.
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The completed HP.88 was taken by road to Carnaby near Bridlington, where it was flown for the first time on 21 June 1951.
Specifications (HP.88), powerplant
Powerplant: 1 × Rolls-Royce Nene 102 centrifugal-flow turbojet engine, 4,770 lbf (21.2 kN) thrust
Development, loss
On 26 August 1951, in preparation for the 1951 SBAC Air Display at Farnborough, the HP.88 carried out a high-speed pass at 300 ft over Stansted, and was seen to start a pitching oscillation before breaking up in mid-air.
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The Handley Page HP.88 was a British research aircraft, built in the early 1950s for Handley Page to test the aerodynamics of the Victor crescent wing design, and was intended to be a scaled-down version of that aircraft.
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The Handley Page HP.88 was a British research aircraft, built in the early 1950s for Handley Page to test the aerodynamics of the Victor crescent wing design, and was intended to be a scaled-down version of that aircraft.
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The Handley Page HP.88 was a British research aircraft, built in the early 1950s for Handley Page to test the aerodynamics of the Victor crescent wing design, and was intended to be a scaled-down version of that aircraft.
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