Accident
Last updated: 24 May 2013
| Statuts: | |
| Date: | 02 DEC 1945 |
| Type/Sous-type: | Handley Page HP.68 Hermes 1 |
| Compagnie: | Handley Page Ltd |
| Immatriculation: | G-AGSS |
| Numéro de série: | HP.68/1 |
| Année de Fabrication: | 1945 |
| Equipage: | victimes: 2 / à bord: 2 |
| Passagers: | victimes: 0 / à bord: 0 |
| Total: | victimes: 2 / à bord: 2 |
| Dégats de l'appareil: | Perte Totale |
| Conséquences: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Lieu de l'accident: | 5 km (3.1 milles) de Radlett Airfield (Royaume Uni)
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| Phase de vol: | En montée initiale (ICL) |
| Nature: | Test |
| Aéroport de départ: | Radlett Airfield (EGTL), Royaume Uni |
| Radlett Airfield (EGTL), Royaume Uni |
The Handley Page HP.68 Hermes 1 prototype crashed on its initial flight.
CONCLUSIONS:
1. It is considered that the accident was the direct result of elevator overbalance, this brought about flight conditions the nature of which caused the pilot to lose control.
2. Although the porpoising motions set up by the overbalanced elevators would have been expected, the final manoeuvre of the aircraft, in climbing suddenly, cannot be satisfactorily explained.
3. It seems certain, however, that at different trimmer settings, a reversal of stick forces would have occurred with which the pilot could not have kept in phase as the loads increased. Sources:
» Air Pictorial Oct. 1965, p.371
» Flight International Dec. 6, 1945
Photos
Plan
Ce plan montre l'aéroport de départ ainsi que la supposé destination du vol. La ligne fixe reliant les deux aéroports n'est pas le plan de vol exact.
La distance entre Radlett Airfield et Radlett Airfield est de 0 km (0 miles).
La distance entre Radlett Airfield et Radlett Airfield est de 0 km (0 miles).
Les informations ci-dessus ne représentent pas l'opinion de la 'Flight Safety Foundation' ou de 'Aviation Safety Network' sur les causes de l'accident. Ces informations prélimimaires sont basées sur les faits tels qui sont connus à ce jour.
