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British heavy bomber used during World War II. The Halifax was designed by Handley Page, Ltd., in response to a 1936 Royal Air Force (RAF) requirement for a bomber powered by two 24-cylinder Rolls-Royce Vulture engines. However, the Vulture encountered problems in development, and the bomber design was reworked in 1937 to take four Rolls-Royce Merlins. The result was a four-engined heavy bomber...
...of carrying 1,800 pounds (815 kg) of bombs. He then designed the V-1500 four-engine bomber, built to fly from England to Berlin with a bomb load of three tons. The war ended before it could be used. Handley Page Transport, Ltd., was formed in 1919 to conduct airline flights from Britain to France, Belgium, The Netherlands, and Switzerland; it later merged to form Imperial Airways.
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