Handley Page Halifax

Halifax
Handley Page Halifax B.III
Vloga	Težki bombnik
Proizvajalec/-ci	Handley Page
Krstni polet	25. oktober [1939]]
Predstavljen	13. november 1940
Upokojen	1961 (Pakistanske letalske sile)
Glavni uporabniki	Kraljeve letalske sile (RAF) Kanadske letalske sile Avstralske letalske sile
Izdelovan	1940–1945
Število izdelanih	6176[1]

Handley Page Halifax je bil štirimotorni težki bombnik, ki so ga uporabljale Kraljeve letalske sile (RAF) med 2. svetovno vojno. Halifax je poletel približno eno leto in pol pred precej podobnim Avro Lancastrom. Kljub temu, da sta bombnika od različnih proizvajalcev, sta si na izgled in po dimenzijah skoraj identična. Halifax uporablja za pogon zvezdaste motorje, Lancaster, za razliko, pa uporablja V-motorje.

Podatki iz Bingham, Halifax, Second to None^[2]

Splošne karakteristike

• Posadka: 7
• Dolžina: 71 ft 7 in (21,82 m)
• Razpon kril: 104 ft 2 in (31,75 m)
• Višina: 20 ft 9 in (6,32 m)
• Površina kril: 1190 ft² (110,6 m²)
• Naložena teža: 54400 lb (24675 kg)
• Pogon letala: 4 × radialni motor Bristol Hercules XVI, 1615 KM (1205 kW) vsak

Zmogljivost

• Maks. hitrost: 282 mph (454 km/h/246 vozlov) na 13500 ft (4115 m)
• Doseg: 1860 milj (3000 km) bojni dolet
• Višina leta: 24,000 ft (7315 m)
• Hitrost vzpenjanja: 750 ft/min (3,8 m/s)
• Obremenitev kril: 45,7 lb/ft² (223,1 kg/m²)
• Razmerje moč/teža: 0,12 KM/lb (195 W/kg)

Oborožitev

• Strelno orožje: 8 × 7,7 mm Browning M1919 strojnice in 1 × 7,7 mm Vickers K strojnica v nosu
• Bombe: do 5897 kg bomb

• Avro Lancaster
• Short Stirling
• Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress
• Consolidated B-24 Liberator
• Petljakov Pe-8
• Seznam bombnikov

• Barnes, C. H. Handley Page Aircraft since 1907. London: Putnam, 1987. ISBN 0-85177-803-8.
• Bingham, Victor F (1986). Halifax, Second to None: The Handley Page Halifax. Airlife. ISBN 0-906393-66-3.
• Buttler, Tony (2004). British Secret Projects: Fighters and Bombers 1935–1950. Hinckley, Lancastershire, UK: Midland Publishing. ISBN 978-1-85780-179-8.
• Clarke, R. M., ed. Handley Page Halifax Portfolio. Cobham, Surrey, UK: Brooklands Books, No year cited. ISBN 0-948207-89-2.
• Clayton, Donald C. Handley Page: An Aircraft Album. Shepperton, Surrey, UK: Ian Allan Ltd., 1970. ISBN 0-7110-0094-8.
• Jones, Geoffrey Patrick. Night Flight: Halifax Squadrons at War. London: William Kimber, 1981. ISBN 0-7183-0338-5.
• Lake, Jon (1999). Halifax Squadrons of World War 2. Osprey Publishing. ISBN 1-85532-892-5.
• Lake, Jon (1997). Halifax Variants. Wings of Fame, Vol. 8. Aerospace Publishing. ISBN 1-86184-009-8.
• Merrick, Keith A. Halifax, an Illustrated History of a Classic World War II Bomber. Shepperton, Surrey, UK: Ian Allan, 1980. ISBN 0-7110-0767-5.
• Merrick, Keith A. Handley Page Halifax: From Hell to Victory and Beyond. Hersham, Surrey, UK: Ian Allan Publishing, 2009. ISBN 978-1-906537-06-7.
• Merrick, Keith A. The Handley Page Halifax. Bourne Ends, Buckinghamshire, UK: Aston Publications, 1990. ISBN 978-0-946627-60-8.
• Moyes, Philip J.R. Handley Page Halifax: Merlin-Engined Variants (Aerodata International No 7). Kidlington. Oxfordshire, UK: Vintage Aviation Publications, 1979. ISBN 0-905469-50-X.
• Moyes, Philip J.R. The Handley Page Halifax B.III, VI, VII. Leatherhead, Surrey, UK: Profile Publications, 1966.
• Rapier, Brian J. Halifax at War. Shepperton, Surrey, UK: Ian Allan, 1987. ISBN 0-7110-1554-6.
• Roberts, Nicholas (1979). Aircraft Crash Log No.2: Handley Page Halifax.
• Roberts, R. N. (1982). The Halifax File. Air Britain (Historians). ISBN 0-85130-098-7.
• Robertson, B (1990). Halifax Special. Ian Allan. ISBN 0-7110-1920-7.
• Robinson, Ian (1996). The Unbeaten Warrior Returns: The Story of Reconstructing the Handley Page Halifax at the Yorkshire Air Museum, 1983–96. Yorkshire Air Museum. ISBN 0-9512379-4-2.
• Scutts, Jerry. Halifax in Action (Aircraft in Action series, No. 66). Carrollton, TX: Squadron/Signal Publications, Inc., 1984. ISBN 0-89747-158-X.
• Stachiw, Anthony L. and Andrew Tattersall. Handley Page Halifax: In Canadian Service St. Catharine's, Ontario, Canada: Vanwell Publishing, 2005. ISBN 1-55125-085-3.
• »The Halifax« (pdf). Flight. flightglobal.com archive. 23. april 1942. Pridobljeno 10. decembra 2011.
• Halifax at War: The Story of a Bomber (76 min. DVD). Toronto: Nightfighters Productions, 2005. ISBN 1-55259-571-4.

Wikimedijina zbirka ponuja več predstavnostnega gradiva o temi: Handley Page Halifax.

• Photo tour of the Elvington halifax Arhivirano 2011-10-07 na Wayback Machine.
• Handley Page Halifax II (III) Arhivirano 2016-03-26 na Wayback Machine.
• Halifax Bomber Crews and Their Experiences
• One of the Many The story of a 76 Squadron Flight Engineer and his Halifax aircraft in World War II
• The Handley Page Halifax website Arhivirano 2010-09-20 na Wayback Machine.
• To Hell in a Halifax, by Herbert Krentz The true story of RCAF pilot Herbert Krentz, the sole survivor when his Halifax Mk V was shot down over Germany in early 1944.