HERALD
The Handley Page Herald
was one of a number of unsuccessful
postwar attempts at providing a replacement for the ubiquitous
Douglas DC-3.
The Herald was designed at Handley Page's Reading facility,
which was formerly Miles Aircraft Company. It had the same
basic configuration as the smaller and older Miles Marathon,
and was originally powered by four 870hp Leonides Major radial
piston engines.
Handley Page intended the Herald for operations from undeveloped
airfields with operators which it thought would prefer piston rather
than turbine power. The first Herald prototype flew on August 25
1955.
However, by this time the Vickers Viscount had proven the
reliability and economical operation of turboprops and Handley
Page was forced to switch to turboprops in May 1957. Both of the
original piston powered prototypes were converted with two Rolls
Royce Darts in place of the four Alvis Leonides Majors. The first flight
of a Herald in the new configuration occurred on March 11 1958.
Unfortunately the Fokker F27 had by then established itself in
the marketplace and the Herald failed to attract any significant sales
success, its poor sales further contributing to the decline of Handley
Page. Herald production ceased in August 1968, after approx 50 had
been built while Handley Page collapsed in late 1969.
This CD contains the
flight manual for the Dart Herald. As we like to
give good value we have also included scans of two detailed
brochures on the Herald, one for the original four Alvis Leonides
engined version, which has good drawings and photos of the aircraft.
The CD has been scanned from the original documents and retains
any colour pages.
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This CD contains:
1. Operations
Manual for the Herald, Handley Page
Publication H.P.(R) 57/6, from the early 1960's,
covering the 200 series (201, 203, 204, 207, 209
and 210).
2. Manufacturers descriptive brochure
for the "Herald
Branchliner", the original four engined
version,
undated but early 1950's, approx 71 pages.
3. Manufacturers
descriptive brochure for the Dart
Herald, also undated but probably late 1950's,
approx 43 pages.
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