AIRCRAFT PROFILE 109 WW1 HANRIOT HD 1 BELGIUM ITALY USN RARE & HARD TO FIND. READY TO COMPLETE YOUR COLLECTION. FILL IN THE GAPS! NOTE- AUCTION PROTECTION WATERMARKING ON THESE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS AUCTION DO NOT APPEAR ON AUCTUAL PUBLICATION. THIS IS A 20-PAGE SOFTBOUND BOOKLET FROM THE PROFILE PUBLICATIONS SERIES PUBLISHED IN THE SIXTIES CONTAINING B/W PHOTOGRAPHS, 2-PAGES OF COLOR PROFILES / COLOR THREE VIEW SCALE DRAWINGS CENTERFOLD, TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS, DETAILS OF DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONAL USE. THIS IS A CLASSIC REFERENCE BOOK ON THE SUBJECT AIRCRAFT IT IS NOT A PLASTIC MODEL KIT. IT IS ALSO NOT ONE OF THE ILLEGAL AND POOR QUALITY SCANNED COPIES OF THIS HARD-TO-FIND BOOKLET NOW APPEARING ON EBAY. PUBLISHED IN ENGLAND UK BY PROFILE PUBLICATIONS LIMITED . IT DOES NOT HAVE HOLES PUNCHED IN IT. YOU WILL FIND GREAT DEALS ON HARD-TO-FIND AVIATION, ARMOR, NAUTICAL AND MILITARIA MAGAZINES AT MY EBAY STORE INTERNET AIRPLANE MAGAZINES AND BOOKS! I HAVE HUNDREDS OF ADDITIONAL LISTINGS USING THE SIMPLE BUY-IT-NOW FORMAT. I SPECIALIZE IN AVIATION REFERENCE MAGAZINES AND BOOKS. I ALSO CARRY TITLES ON MILITARY HISTORY, ARMOR, TANKS, SHIPS, ELITE SPECIAL UNITS AND AMERICAN CIVIL WAR. THESE ARE EXCELLENT GIFTS & REFERENCES FOR PILOTS, MILITARY AIRCREW, VETERANS, MILITARY RE-ENACTORS, SCALE MODELERS & AIRCRAFT ENTHUSIASTS. TITLES CURRENTLY LISTED INCLUDED: THE ELITE, TAKE OFF, WARPLANE, PROFILE PUBLICATIONS, AIRCRAFT ILLUSTRATED, AIRCRAFT ILLUSTRATED EXTRA, AIR COMBAT, AIR ENTHUSIAST, AMERICAN AIRMAN AND THE ILLUSTRATED ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AIRCRAFT. HARD TO FIND GIFTS FOR SCALE MODELERS, PILOTS, AIRCREW & VETERANS - HERE'S AN INEXPENSIVE FATHER'S DAY GIFT, BIRTHDAY PRESENT OR CHRISTMAS PRESENT FOR THE VETERAN, REENACTOR, SCALE MODELER, MILITARIA ENTHUSIAST OR HISTORY CHANNEL LOVER IN YOUR FAMILY ----------------------------------
Additional Information from
Internet Encyclopedia
The Hanriot HD.1 was a French
World War I single-seat fighter aircraft. Rejected for service with French
squadrons in favour of the SPAD S.VII, the type was supplied to the Belgian
Army′s Aviation Militaire Belge (Belgian Military Aviation) and the Corpo
Aeronautico Militare (Military Aviation Corps) of the Royal Italian Army, with
both of which it proved highly successful. Of a total of about 1,200 examples
built, 831 were produced by Italian companies under licence.
The Hanriot HD.2 was a biplane
floatplane fighter aircraft produced in France during the First World War that
was used after the war for testing the use of aircraft from warships.
The Hanriot company produced a
series of pioneering monoplanes pre-war but had settled down as a licence
manufacturer, notably of Sopwith 1½ strutters, when the HD.1 was produced in
1916. The type was a conventional fighter with the general characteristics of a
typical Sopwith aircraft, being strongly but lightly built and combining clean
lines with a light wing loading. It used the same "1½" (or
"W") cabane strut arrangement as the Sopwith two-seater. It had a
flat lower wing, though the top wing had quite sharp dihedral.
On the power of its 110 hp (82
kW) Le Rhone rotary engine it was not outstandingly fast but it was very
manoeuvrable and proved popular with pilots as a safe and pleasant aircraft to
fly. To maintain a competitive climbing and altitude performance it was usual
practice to restrict armament to one synchronised Vickers machine gun, although
there was provision for a second gun and one was occasionally fitted. In
French-built aircraft the gun (or guns) were fitted to the sides of the cockpit
and were accessible to the pilot without their butts being directly in front of
his face in the event of a crash an unusual but welcome feature, even if its
origins lay in the form of the cabane struts. Italian-built versions mounted
one machine gun centrally. The type was also produced by the Nieuport-Macchi
company of Varese, Italy, which built almost 900 HD.1s between 1917 and 1919;
more than the parent firm.
The new type was ordered into
production as a possible replacement for the Nieuport 17 but became
"superfluous" when it was decided to replace the Nieuport with the
SPAD S.7 in the French air service. Some were supplied to the French Navy, a
few of which were eventually passed to the U.S. Navy some naval Hanriots were
converted to or built as floatplanes with enlarged tail surfaces.
The bulk of early production was
supplied to the Belgians, who notoriously had to make do with the Allies's
cast-offs. With the Belgian fighter squadrons the HD.1 proved surprisingly
successful and the type remained the standard Belgian fighter for the rest of
the war. Willy Coppens, the top Belgian ace of the war, was the most successful
HD.1 pilot.[1] At least one of his machines was experimentally fitted with an
11 mm Vickers machine-gun for use in balloon busting, something at which
Coppens excelled. Most of his victories were balloons and many were claimed
while flying various HD.1s. These aircraft remained in use until the late
1920s.
The type was also supplied in
small numbers to the Italians, who manufactured it in quantity and used it to
replace Nieuports and SPADs. The type was considered (by the Italians) to be a
better all-round fighter than even the SPAD S.XIII and it became the standard
Italian fighter, equipping 16 of the 18 operational Italian fighter squadrons
by November 1918. Surplus Italian-built Hanriots were used by several countries
postwar, including the Swiss.
The U.S. Naval Aircraft Factory
built (or possibly modified/converted) 10 HD.1s in the immediate postwar years.
These were mainly used as trainers, although they were also involved in
experiments with take-off platforms on warships they could be fitted with
twin guns and at least one machine had a hydrovane and flotation bags of the
type developed for the Royal Navy.
The HD.2 was developed
specifically as an interceptor to defend flying boat bases, but soon was used
as an escort fighter to protect French reconnaissance flying boats. The United
States Navy also bought 10 examples with wheeled undercarriages, designated
HD.2C.
Both the French and United
States navies used these aircraft in early experiments in launching fighters
from warships. The United States Navy replicated the French trials where a HD.1
had been launched from a platform built atop one of the turrets of the
battleship Paris and built a similar platform on the USS Mississippi to launch
a HD.2 from. The French Navy converted some of their HD.2s to wheeled
configuration and used them for trials on the new aircraft carrier Béarn.
A final experiment in launching
a HD.2 from a ship was carried out in 1924 with two new-built examples
designated H.29. An unorthodox launching system was developed where the
aircraft were equipped with three small pulley-wheels, one on each tip of the
upper wing, and one at the tip of the tail fin. These ran along metal rails
that had been attached to project horizontally from the mast of the battleship
Lorraine. This did not work as hoped, succeeding only in depositing the
aircraft into the water below. Further trials were discontinued.
|