Handley Page Hampden and Hereford

[zenrat]

A 633 Sqn movie aircraft would make for an interesting RW build.  The JMNs would get confused.

I've long been pondering a Hampden with a deeper fuselage - so it really does look like a flying suitcase.  Maybe a PR machine which needed the extra depth for long focal length stereo cameras?

[PR19_Kit]

Maybe a PR machine which needed the extra depth for long focal length stereo cameras?

With a Hampden you could do that with the camera mounted lengthwise in the fuselage and a mirror. That's what they did with the System B camera in the Canberra PR9s.

But the deeper fuselage idea is MUCH more Whiffy, and could make it look French too. Perhaps a bay window in the nose too? 

[scooter]

But the deeper fuselage idea is MUCH more Whiffy, and could make it look French too. Perhaps a bay window in the nose too? 

With wicker table and chairs for the in-flight wine & cheese service?

[Weaver]

But the deeper fuselage idea is MUCH more Whiffy, and could make it look French too. Perhaps a bay window in the nose too? 

With wicker table and chairs for the in-flight wine & cheese service?

And Art Nouveau embellishments on the window frames...

[jcf]

You don't need to deepen the Hampden fuselage, just give it a nose like the prototype.

[zenrat]

I don't NEED to but I can't get the idea of doing so out of my head.
Maybe in addition to the cameras there was a developing lab under the cockpit which needed standing room...

[PR19_Kit]

Maybe in addition to the cameras there was a developing lab under the cockpit which needed standing room...

And a kitchen and dining room too, and maybe a couple of sleeping berths as well. It's tiring work doing all that developing and printing you know. 

[Rheged]

You don't need to deepen the Hampden fuselage, just give it a nose like the prototype.

That nose is looking perilously close to the" conservatories "found on some 1930's Amiot bombers.

[jcf]

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[kerick]

That's hilarious! And it has spats too!  Was there an elevator to get up to the cockpit? 

[NARSES2]

  

[jcf]

This should explain why C.C. Grey of The Aeroplane gave it the flying suitcase moniker.
The ventral turret is a Heyford retractable type fixed in place.
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[The Rat]

A 633 Sqn movie aircraft would make for an interesting RW build.  The JMNs would get confused.

I've long been pondering a Hampden with a deeper fuselage - so it really does look like a flying suitcase.  Maybe a PR machine which needed the extra depth for long focal length stereo cameras?

Have it mounted on top in a housing that looks like a suitcase handle. 

[Old Wombat]

A 633 Sqn movie aircraft would make for an interesting RW build.  The JMNs would get confused.

I've long been pondering a Hampden with a deeper fuselage - so it really does look like a flying suitcase.  Maybe a PR machine which needed the extra depth for long focal length stereo cameras?

Have it mounted on top in a housing that looks like a suitcase handle. 

That's easy, just raise the top of the fuselage & fit side windows like the Wellington's. 

[jcf]

H-P don't have the engineering and production capacity for the deepened fuselage Hampden so it's handed off to Gloster. After a great deal of redesign it belatedly enters service as the Gloster Gladstone.