HP42 'Hanno' G-AAUD

GAFFERS TAPE IS WONDERFUL

Below is a quote from Kev 35, taken from an earlier thread.

And a photo of same aircraft in better times, early 1936 at Shaiba.

G-AAUD was named Hanno and G-AAXE was named Hengist. ‘XE was caught in an airship hangar fire at Karachi on 31/5/37 and was destroyed. ‘UD was impressed into RAF service on the outbreak of war and was destroyed at Whitchurch Bristol Airport on 19/3/40 when during a gale, the aircraft was blown together with another HP42, G-AAXC Heracles. ‘XC was also destroyed as a result of this incident.

Does’nt that rear fuse repair to join with the forward section look well, that new silver gaffer tape really does the job

Matson Collection/US Library of Congress

I edited these onto flickr about a year ago….many of the LoC captions are wrong ….you can download a 3000+wide TIFF file for many of them and zoom/crop, which is what I did for the Scion.
The Matsons were a central part of the American Colony in Jerusalem…they were a Christian group, but they endeared themselves to the Islamic majority so that the governing Turks allowed them to continue with their hospital work for the wounded Germans/Turks even after the US entered the 1st world war. Being Americans they had good cameras, acted as a press agency and I think they had a Buick dealership 🙂

Whose been a busy boy eh? 😀 Check out the Short Scion!:)

HP42 aircraft in Matson/Library of Congress Archive

I’ve edited a dozen containing HP42s of these into a flickr album

http://www.flickr.com/photos/74784995@N00/sets/72157604727564944/

G-AAUD at Semakh(British Mandated Palestine) circa 1931

Below is a quote from Kev 35, taken from an earlier thread.

And a photo of same aircraft in better times, early 1936 at Shaiba.

G-AAUD was named Hanno and G-AAXE was named Hengist. ‘XE was caught in an airship hangar fire at Karachi on 31/5/37 and was destroyed. ‘UD was impressed into RAF service on the outbreak of war and was destroyed at Whitchurch Bristol Airport on 19/3/40 when during a gale, the aircraft was blown together with another HP42, G-AAXC Heracles. ‘XC was also destroyed as a result of this incident.

One sick bird, presumably w/o?