handley 0/100

17 July 2004, 02:24 PM

What was the largest payload that a handley 0/100 could drop?

mossie · 17 July 2004, 02:36 PM

[Source: World Aircraft - origins of WW1]

Quotes 1,792 lbs (8112.8 kg) of bombs.

[Source: Janes Fighting Aircraft of WW1]

Quotes: "fitted with apparatus for dropping of eight 250 lb and eight 112 lb bombs."

These two sources are at ods. Unless the second only refers to fittings, and the load is made up to a value.

R Pope · 17 July 2004, 05:09 PM

The HP O100 and the follow-on O400 carried a max of 16x50 kg bombs, or 8x100 kg., depending on the distances involved. That's 800kg, not 8112.8. Some of these reference books need to polish up on their metric conversions! I have one that used all the formulae the wrong way, ending up with some mind-boggling figures. Eight metric tons would have made her a "Bloody Paralyser" indeed!

Dan_San_Abbott · 18 July 2004, 06:40 PM

sopwith camel:
The Handley Page /100 could carry internally sixteen 112 lb bombs. The Handley Page /400 could carry sixteen 112 lb bombs or eight 250lb bombs, or three 520 or 550 lb bombs or one 1650 lb bomb under the fuselage.
Source: British Aeroplanes, By J.M.Bruce, page 276. There is no better source than the late Jack Bruce, the best of all!
Blue skies,
Dan-san

18 July 2004, 09:50 PM

Pursuant to the original question... though the O/400 fuel tanks were internal (above the bombs, I belive), the original O/100 tanks were mounted externally aft of the engines. What did the interior of the O/100 look like? Was it just a huge open space?

R Pope · 19 July 2004, 06:49 AM

The 16 bombs were carried internally, nose up so the crew could arm them in flight. One O400 was used to develop a 2000 pound armour piercing bomb, carried externally of course.

R Pope · 19 July 2004, 07:40 AM

PJFisher-- The first O100 carried 20 H-P employees to an altitude of 7000 feet, so there was some empty space in there somewhere!

Volker_Nemsch · 20 July 2004, 01:43 AM

Here are two photos of a scratchbuilt HP 0/400 in 1:48 scale. I hope this answers your question concerning the interior of this aircraft.

Here is the first one ...

Volker_Nemsch · 20 July 2004, 01:44 AM

... and here is the second picture.

karrart · 20 July 2004, 11:23 AM

Thanks Volker, for posting those pics of my model!
One major difference in the guts of the 0/100 from 0/400 is that the 0/100 had only one big fuel tank behind the cockpit. If the model had been of the 0/100, the rear tank would not be there.
RK
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