HANDLEY PAGE HALIFAX 1939 ONWARDS (ALL MARKS) (OWNERS' WORKSHOP MANUAL)
Written by Jonathan Falconer
Published by Haynes Publishing
in 2016
ISBN: 9781785210679
- Categorised in:
- TRANSPORT
- AVIATION
- AIRCRAFT
- WORLD WAR II
- RAF
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Front cover
Contents
- Introduction
- THE HALIFAX STORY
- Design Origins
- Prototypes
- The Halifax enters service
- New building techniques
- B Mk I Series 1 to 3 (HP57)
- B Mk II Series (HP59)
- B Mk II Series 1 (Special)
- C Mk II Series 1A
- Bomber Harris and the Halifax
- B Mk V Series 1 (Special) and Mk V Series 1A (HP63)
- B Mk III (HP61)
- B Mk IV (HP60A)
- B Mk VI (HP61)
- B Mk VII (HP61)
- Coastal Command variants
- Airborne Forces variants
- Transport variants
- ANATOMY OF THE HALIFAX
- General description
- Front fuselage
- Centre fuselage
- Rear fuselage
- Fuselage rear bay
- Mainplane
- Control surfaces
- Tail unit
- Armour plating, protection and escape hatches
- Undercarriage
- Systems
- Navigation equipment, radar and communications
- Safety and emergency equipment
- Fixed armament
- Bombs
- POWER FOR THE HALIFAX
- The Rolls-Royce Merlin
- The Bristol Hercules radial engine
- Rolls-Royce Merlin, X, XX and 22 inline liquid-cooled engines
- Bristol Hercules VI, XVI and 100 radial air-cooled engines
- HALIFAX AT WAR
- Expanding the Halifax force, 1941-42
- A new broom - 'Bomber' Harris
- Middle East adventure, 1942
- Return to operations
- No 6 (RCAF) Group
- Battle of the Ruhr
- The war at sea
- Mine-laying
- Growing might
- Battle of Berlin
- Crew conversion training
- New blood - Halifax B Mk III
- The road to France
- Supporting the invasion
- Back to Germany
- Last roll of the dice
- Coastal command operations
- Met reconnaissance
- 'Cloak and dagger'- special duties (SD) operations
- Airborne operations
- Bomber support
- Victory in Europe
- Halifaxes in the Far East
- With the Royal Pakistan Air Force at war
- HALIFAX AT PEACE
- Last throes of the RAF Halifax
- Civilian Halifaxes
- 'Milk-run' Halifaxes and other cargoes
- Operation 'Plainfare' - the Berlin Air Lift
- FLYING THE HALIFAX
- The pilot's viewpoint
- One man and his Halifax
- Equal to the task - woman in a man's job
- Halifax versus Lancaster
- Halifax flight-test report
- Comparing the Halifax with the Lancaster
- HALIFAX MAINTAINERS
- HALIFAX SURVIVORS
- Norwegian epic - by Peter Cornish
- Raising 'X for X-ray'
- Reconstructing LV907' Friday the 13th'
- Baltic bomber - Halifax B MK II (HR871)
- Last Survivor
- Cockpit remnant
- Halifax nose artwork
- The future
- APPENDIX
- LIST OF SOURCES
- INDEX