The Handley Page Type A, nicknamed Bluebird and later redesignated HP.1, was the first powered aircraft designed and built by Frederick Handley Page. After an experimental glider of 1909 it was a single-seat wooden monoplane with a tailskid undercarriage and a 20 hp Advance V-4 air-cooled engine, and it used a wing shape patented by Weiss that was claimed to give automatic lateral stability, so it had no ailerons or wing warping. Its wings, fuselage and tail were covered in blue-grey rubberised fabric, which gave the Bluebird name. Handley Page made a few straight hops on 26 May 1910 but crashed at the first attempt to turn. The rebuilt aircraft became the Type C, which refused to fly, and the Type A ended its life as an instructional airframe at the Northampton Polytechnic Institute in Clerkenwell. Only one was built.
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Following success in 1909 with an experimental glider Handley Page designed and built a single-seat monoplane.
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After the aircraft had been displayed at the second Olympia Aero Exhibition, Handley Page successfully made a few straight hops in the Bluebird on 26 May 1910, but crashed at the first attempt to make a turn.
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Following success in 1909 with an experimental glider Handley Page designed and built a single-seat monoplane.
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The Handley Page Type A, sometimes called "Bluebird" and later designated HP.1, was the first powered aircraft designed and built by Frederick Handley Page.
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