Handley Page HastingsHandley Page Hastings airplane model. The Handley Page HP 67 Hastings was a troop carrier and freight transport of the Royal Air Force. At the time it was the largest transport plane ever designed for the RAF, and it replaced the Avro York as the standard long range transport. The two squadrons equipped with Hastings flew intensively during the Berlin Airlift and a Hastings made the last sortie of the airlift on October 6, 1949. 100 Hastings C. Mk 1

It extracts sizzling performance from a tried-and-true engine and airframe

Originally

more familiarly known as the "coke bottle" shaped fuselage

Height 25 inches

later replaced by the R-2800-42W

it was quickly changed into a very advanced gun less all-weather interceptor with advanced radar and missile armament

the XP-80 made its maiden flight on Jan

Probably the closest to being the fabled DC-3 replacement

Bell X-1A airplane model

making it the perfect choice for the Air Force

and was complemented by the long-range Model 36

flightdeck and wings