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Blériot XXVII

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1911-1939, In Storage, 85/A/226

The Blériot XXVII, dating from 1911, was built for speed. This streamlined single-seat racing monoplane with a rotary engine, shared many construction features with other contemporary Blériot monoplanes, such as the shoulder-mounted wing.

Single engine aircraft with yellow canvas body and wings, © RAF Museum

Handley Page Hampden TB Mk I

Aircraft & Exhibits, 1939-04 SEP 1942, In Storage, 1994/1340/A

An RAF crew were flying this Hampden, a torpedo bomber variant, to the Soviet Union to help protect Arctic convoys, when it was shot down by German fighters on 5 September 1942.

Handley Page Hampden, RAF Museum / (c) RAF Museum/ Iain Duncan