HPH | Air-Britain Books | Handley Page Hermes - A Very British Airliner Tony Merton-Jones airline-aeroflot and engines

and engines

Aircraft model x 1

Registration: B-658W

featuring a modern AESA radar

This model represents the ATA 727-200 registration N772AT

HPH | Air-Britain Books | Handley Page Hermes - A Very British Airliner Tony Merton-Jones airline-aeroflot and enginesHandley Page Hermes A Very British Airliner Tony Merton Jones Developed to ply the worlds post war air routes, the Hermes was a handsome challenger that suffered from a number of problems that would plague its success. Loss of the prototype on its maiden flight in 1945 slowed the programme, and when the production version emerged, a change of undercarriage to nosewheel configuration and Sir Frederick Handley Pages insistence that every component