Handley Page H.P.35 Clive

1931


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The Hinaidi followed the Hyderabad into RAF service and 12 Mk Is and 33 Mk IIs were built, six of the Mk Is originally being ordered as Hyderabads but built as Hinaidis (not converted after completion). These served from 1930.

The RAF also received three examples of the troop-transport version known as the Clive (formerly Chitral). Each could accommodate 17 fully armed troops, or equivalent freight; folding seats being provided on both sides of the cabin and racks for the rifles. Two gun positions were retained (nose and dorsal). The first Clive was later civil registered G-ABYX and named Youth of Australia (subsequently Astra).

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N Linford, e-mail, 01.07.2023 21:59

My father Ken Linford, sometime in the thirties, flew seated alongside FT LT H.C. Johnson in the open cockpit of Youth of Australia when Alan Cobham's Aviation Days show was happening at Lingfield in Surrey. This a prize for estimating (near enough) the altitude of a smoke trail. Word must have reached the War Ministry for when the balloon went up in '39 he found himself as gunner Linford in a Bofors unit! I have the signed photo and certification from the pilot.

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