The Handley Page Hampden was one of the most unusual bombers of World War II - a narrow, cramped machine that forced its crew to work shoulder-to-shoulder in extreme conditions. Nicknamed the “Flying ...

Nicknamed the “Flying Suitcase” by its own crews, the Handley Page Hampden was one of Britain’s sleekest and fastest bombers ...

A World War Two bomber that ditched in the North Sea more than 80 years ago has been filmed in its watery grave for the first time. Rob Spray, a diver from Suffolk, came across the Handley-Page ...

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Until recently the family of R.C.W de Courcy knew little of his career in the RAF. A Dubliner, he had been a navigator in a Hampden bomber which was shot down in the Heligoland Bight in February 1942.