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    Sir Frederick Handley Page CBE FRAeS (15 November 1885 – 21 April 1962) was an English industrialist who was a pioneer in the aircraft industry and became...
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    Handley Page Limited was a British aerospace manufacturer. Founded by Frederick Handley Page (later Sir Frederick) in 1909, it was the United Kingdom's...
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    Sueter, the director of the Air Department of the Royal Navy, and Frederick Handley Page. Sueter requested "a bloody paralyser of an aircraft" for long-range...
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  • Handley Page Transport Ltd was an airline company founded in 1919, soon after the end of the First World War, by Frederick Handley Page. The company's...
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    The Handley Page Victor is a British jet-powered strategic bomber developed and produced by Handley Page during the Cold War. It was the third and final...
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    The Handley Page Dart Herald is a 1950s British turboprop passenger aircraft. In the mid-1950s Handley Page developed a new fast short-range regional...
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    The Handley Page Halifax is a British Royal Air Force (RAF) four-engined heavy bomber of the Second World War. It was developed by Handley Page to the...
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    The Handley Page H.P.42 and H.P.45 were four-engine biplane airliners designed and manufactured by British aviation company Handley Page, based in Radlett...
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    The Handley Page HP.81 Hermes was a civilian airliner designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Handley Page. The Hermes was developed...
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    credited jointly to Sir Frederick Handley Page and Gustav Lachmann. The first aircraft fitted with controllable slots was the Handley Page H.P.20. Licensing...
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  • The Handley Page Type A, sometimes called "Bluebird" and later designated HP.1, was the first powered aircraft designed and built by Frederick Handley Page...
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  • Fred Page (politician) (1858–1929), Australian politician Sir Frederick Handley Page (1885–1962), English aircraft industrialist Frederick Page (musician)...
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    The Handley Page Type E was a two-seat, single-engined monoplane intended as a demonstrator. Though only one was built, it flew successfully from 1912...
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  • Gustav Lachmann (category Handley Page)
    professional life working for the British aircraft company Handley Page. He was, with Frederick Handley Page, the co-inventor of the leading edge slot. Lachmann...
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    The Handley Page Type G was a two-seat British biplane, designed by Handley Page that first flew in 1913. Only one was built. The Type G was the first...
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    The Handley Page Type D or H.P.4 was a single-seat, single-engined tractor monoplane, the first Handley Page design to fly for more than a few hops. Only...
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    devices. It was the first aircraft to fly with controllable slots. Frederick Handley Page obtained his master patent for controllable slots on the edge of...
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    large, powered aircraft designs — usually fixed-wing. In 1919, Frederick Handley Page was reported as referring to "ships of the air," with smaller passenger...
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  • made in March 1921 between Handley Page Limited, Frederick Handley Page and ADC to stop ADC liquidating the Handley Page Company. The former military...
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    Frederick Handley Page, aided in discouraging him, telling him that pilots were plentiful but engineers were not. Thinking of it later in life, Page suspected...
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  • politician Frederick Page (1917–2005), English aircraft designer Frederick Handley Page (1885–1962), British aircraft manufacturer Geneviève Page (born 1930),...
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    meant any kind of navigable or dirigible flying machine. In 1919 Frederick Handley Page was reported as referring to "ships of the air," with smaller passenger...
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    inventor, was born in Cheltenham. Sir Frederick Handley Page (1885–1962), founder of the aircraft maker Handley Page, was born in Cheltenham and attended...
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    Vulcan, which first flew in 1952 and entered service in 1956; and the Handley Page Victor, which first flew in 1952 and entered service in 1957. The V Bomber...
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    airliners. These are known as slotted flaps as described above. Frederick Handley Page experimented with fore and aft slot designs in the 20s and 30s....
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    de Havilland, Thomas Sopwith, Richard Fairey, Robert Blackburn, Frederick Handley Page, A.V. Roe and the Short Brothers had a training in engineering and...
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  • the left) on the United States Declaration of Independence Sir Frederick Handley Page, aircraft designer, best known for WW2 aircraft, including the Halifax...
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    aviation activity becoming centred at Brooklands. In 1913, he bet Frederick Handley Page that he could earn his pilot's licence within 24 hours of first...
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    aviator's certificate on 17 September 1913 following a £500 bet with Frederick Handley-Page that he could obtain it within 24 hour of commencing flight training...
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  • 20 – Grover Whalen, American politician (b. 1886) April 21 – Sir Frederick Handley Page, English aircraft manufacturer (b. 1885) April 22 – Vera Reynolds...
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