Handley Page - T-shirt Size:S Lockheed P-38 Lightning

Lockheed P-38 Lightning

Using Whittle's turbojet

afterburning turbo fan engines and terrain following radar for low-level tasks at high speed

The Swift first flew 29th December 1948

The Hurricane continued to be produced in many variants right through to the end of the war

Handley Page - T-shirt Size:S Lockheed P-38 LightningHandley Page Limited Handley Page was Britain's very first aircraft manufacturing company, formed in 1909 by Frederick Handley Page. In 1912 the factory moved from Barking to Cricklewood Aerodrome. During the First World War Handley Page produced heavy bombers for the Royal Navy to bomb the Zeppelin yards. Between the wars Handley Page turned to transport aircraft, becoming Imperial Airways. At the onset of the next war, bomber production restarted