A scale model of a Handley Page Type E two-seater single-engine monoplane.

1:12 scale.

Made at Armstrong Whitworth (later British Aerospace – BAe).

Width: 107 cm.

Length: 72 cm.

Height: 25 cm.

Provenance: Royal Air Force Museum.

The H.P.5. Type E designed by Frederick Handley Page was tandem seat monoplane powered by a 50 hp Gnome 7 cylinder rotary engine, only one was built as a company demonstrator, with a crew of one, and up to three passengers. It flew successfully from 1912 to 1914 carrying several hundred passengers and flying several thousand miles, with a maximum speed: 60 mph (96 km/h) and an endurance of 3 hours.