Handley Page Halifax ( English Handley Page Halifax ) - British four-engine heavy bomber from World War II ; a contemporary of the famous Euro Lancaster , Halifax remained in service until the end of the war. In addition to the Royal Air Force , he was in service with the Australian Air Force , New Zealand Air Force , Canadian Air Force , as well as the French Air Force, Pakistan Air Force and Egyptian Air Force .
| Halifax | |
|---|---|
 Halifax Mk.III. | |
| Type of | heavy bomber |
| Developer | Handley Page |
| Manufacturer | Handley Page English electric Fairey aviation Rootes securities London A / C Prod |
| First flight | September 24, 1939 |
| Start of operation | November 1940 |
| End of operation | 1955 ( Pakistan ) |
| Status | withdrawn from service |
| Operators |  Royal Air Force |
| Years of production | 1940 - 1946 |
| Units produced | 2 prototypes 6176 serial |
Handley Page Halifax B Mk I, 76 Squadron RAF, Summer 1941
Halifaxes made their first raid on the night of March 11-12, 1941 , at the French port of Le Havre captured by the Germans [1] [2] .
During their service in the Royal Air Force, Halifaxes made 82,773 sorties and dropped 224 thousand tons of air bombs.
In total, until April 1945, 6178 Halifaxes of various modifications were built; 1833 aircraft were lost in the sky and at airfields [2] .
Content
Performance Specifications
Modification data Mk.III . Data source: Moyes, 1965, p. 12; Bingham, 1986, p. 170.
- Specifications
- Crew : 7
- Length : 21.82 m
- Wingspan: 30.18 m (in later versions 31.75 m)
- Height : 6.32 m
- Wing Area: 116.13 m² (later versions 118.45 m²)
- Wing profile : NACA 23021 - wing root, NACA 23009 - wingtips
- Empty weight: 17 345 kg
- Maximum take-off weight : 29484 kg
- Maximum landing weight: 24,948 kg
- Fuel tank capacity: 12 220 l
- Powerplant : 4 × Air-cooled Bristol Hercules XVI
- Engine power: 4 × 1615 liters. with. (4 × 1205 kW)
- Flight characteristics
- Maximum speed:
- 447 km / h at an altitude of 1829 m
- 454 km / h at an altitude of 4115 m
- Cruising speed : 346 km / h at an altitude of 6096 m
- Practical range:
- with 5,228 liters of fuel and 5,897 kg of bombs: 1,658 km
- with 9029 liters of fuel and 3175 kg of bombs: 3195 km
- Practical ceiling :
- normal take-off weight: 7315 m
- at maximum take-off weight: 6096 m
- Rate of climb : 4.88 m / s
- Climb time: 6096 m
- normal take-off weight: 37.5 min
- at maximum take-off weight: 50 min
- Wing load: 223.1 kg / m²
- Dead weight: 195 W / kg
- Armament
- Rifle Cannon:
- 1 × 7.7 mm Vickers machine gun "K" with 300 patr. in the bow
- 2 × 4 × 7.7 mm Browning machine guns with 1,160 pat. each in Bolton Paul installations on top of the fuselage and tail
- Combat load: 5897 kg
- Bombs :
- 6 × 454 kg and 2 × 907 kg or
- 1 × 3629 kg or
- 2 × 1814 kg or
- 4 × 907 kg or
- 8 × 454 kg or
- 2 × 680 kg of mines and 6 × 227 kg of bombs or
- 9 × 227 kg in the fuselage and 6 × 227 kg in the wing
Comparison with other similar aircraft
| Title | Pe-8 | Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress | Handley Page Halifax | Vickers wellington | Short styling | Focke-Wulf Fw 200 Condor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A photo | ||||||
| A country | ||||||
| Manufacturer | CAPO | Boeing Vega Douglas | Handley Page | Vickers-armstrongs | Short brothers | Focke-Wulf Flugzeugbau GmbH |
| Length | 23.59 m | 22.66 m | 21.86 m | 19.68 m | 26.6 m | 23.46 m |
| Wing span | 39.13 m | 31.62 m | 30.18 m (31.75 m) | 26.26 m | 30.2 m | 32.84 m |
| Wing area | 188.6 m² | 131.92 m² | 116.13 m² (118.45 mm²) | 78.04 m² | 135.64 m² | 118 m² |
| Empty mass | 19 986 kg | 16 391 kg | 17 345 kg | 8 417 kg | 12 960 kg | |
| Combat load | 5000 kg | 2300 kg [3] | 5897 kg | 2041 kg | 6350 kg | 2100 kg |
| Maximum take-off weight | 35 000 kg | 29,710 kg | 29,710 kg | 12 927 kg | 31 751 kg | 22 720 kg |
| Engine | 4 × V-12 AM-35A | 4 × Wright R-1820-97 "Cyclone" | 4 × Bristol Hercules xvi | 2 × Bristol Pegasus Mk. XVIII | 4 × Bristol Hercules XI | 4 × Bramo-323K-2 Fafnir |
| Maximum traction | 4 × 1350 h.p. (4 × 1000 kW) | 4 × 1200 h.p. | 4 × 1615 h.p. (4 × 1205 kW) | 2 × 1050 h.p. (2 × 783 kW) | 4 × 1590 h.p. (4 × 1186 kW) | 4 × 1200 h.p. |
| Top speed | 443 km / h | 516 km / h | 454 km / h | 378 km / h | 418 km / h | 360 km / h |
| Cruising speed | 400 km / h | 400 km / h | 346 km / h | 346 km / h | 332 km / h | |
| Combat radius | 3600 km [4] | 3219 km [5] | 1658 km [6] | 2905 km | 1191 km [7] | 3536 km [8] |
| Practical ceiling | 9 300 m | 10 850 m | 7 315 m [9] | 5,486 m | 5,030 m | 5 800 m |
| Rate of climb | 5.9 m / s | 4.6 m / s | 4.88 m / s | 5.34 m / s | 1.82 m / s | n / a |
| Thrust ratio | 140 W / kg | 150 W / kg | 195 W / kg | 130 W / kg | 176 W / kg | n / a |
| Small arms | 2 × 20 mm guns; 2 × 12.7 mm machine guns; 2 × 7.62 mm machine gun | 12 × 12.7 mm | 1 × 7.7 mm machine gun; 2 × 4 × 7.7 mm machine guns | 6-8 machine guns | 8 × 7.7 mm machine guns | 2 × 7.92 mm machine gun; 3 × 13 mm machine gun; 1 × 20 mm gun |
Notes
- ↑ Owen Gordon Thetford. Aircraft of the Royal Air Force since 1918 . - 4. - Funk & Wagnalls, 1968. - P. 277. - 611 p.
- ↑ 1 2 Handley Page Halifax . RAF Brampton Wyton Henlow. Archived October 30, 2009.
- ↑ theoretically up to 7900 kg
- ↑ Practical range
- ↑ from 2277 kg of bombs
- ↑ with 5228 liters of fuel and 5897 kg of bombs
- ↑ from 6350 kg of bombs
- ↑ from 8050 liters of fuel
- ↑ at normal takeoff weight
Literature
- Bingham, Victor F. Halifax, Second to None: The Handley Page Halifax. - Shrewsbury, UK: Airlife Publishing Ltd., 1986. - 183 p. - ISBN 0-906393-66-3 .
- Moyes, Philip JR The Handley Page Halifax B.III, VI, VII. - London: Profile Publications, 1965. - 12 p. - (Profile Aircraft 11).
- Okolelov N.N., Shumilin S.E., Chechin A.A. Diamonds of the British crown (Rus.) // Model-designer: magazine. - 2007. - No. 2 special issue . - S. 21 - 37 .