Handley Page V/1500 (Bomber)
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found: Work cat.: Jacklin, D. The Super Handley, 2008:introd. (the Handley Page V/1500 was the largest British plane of the First World War and arguably the first real strategic bomber, specifically designed to attack Berlin from bases in eastern England)
found: Wikipedia, 1st Feb. 2010:Handley Page V/1500 (the Handley Page V/1500 was a British night-flying heavy bomber built by Handley Page towards the end of the First World War; it was a large four-engined biplane, which resembled a larger version of Handley Page's earlier O/100 and O/400 bombers; the end of the war stopped the V/1500 being used against Germany, but a single aircraft was used to carry out the first flight from England to India, and later carried out a bombing raid on Kabul during the Third Anglo-Afghan War; it was colloquially known within the fledgling Royal Air Force as the "Super Handley")
found: Virtual Aircraft Museum website, 1st Feb. 2010:Aircraft directory: U.K., Handley Page V/1500 (H.P.15), 1918.
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2010-02-01: new
2010-03-11: revised
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