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SPECIFICATIONS
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Wingspan:
30.48
m ,
length:19.16 m
,
height:
6.71 m,
empty mass: 3,722
kg ,
start mass:
6,060 kg
engine:2
x Rolls-Royce Eagle water-cooled motors,
360 hp,
max speed: 156.9
km/h
initial climb: 1,981
m / 27 min-10 sec.,
ceiling:2,591
m,
Endurance: 8
hrs ,
armament:5
x .303-in Lewis machine-guns ,907 kg of bombs
Crew: 4 |
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- 第一次世界大戦時では、ドイツのゴータなどより大型で、最大の大きさを誇った重爆撃機です。性能も当時としては満足いくもので、ドイツの都市への夜間爆撃などで活躍しました。生産機数は５５０機といわれており、名実ともにイギリス空軍の主力爆撃機でした。また旅客機としても少数生産されたようです。
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The genius of Sir Frederick
Handley-Page as a pioneer of the large aeroplane and the foresight
of the Admiralty in recognizing the possibilities of such machines
in aerial warfare were jointly responsible for the Handley-Page
0/400 bomber, which can justly claim to be the first successful
heavy bomber to go into regular squadron service anywhere in
the world.
The 0/400 was the largest aeroplane used against the Germans
by British squadrons in the Great War and it laid the foundations
of heavy bomber design for the next 10 or 15 years. It became
so famous that for years after the war all large aeroplanes
were described as "Handley-Pages" by the British public.
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