Hello, here I am back with one more aircraft on stamps series. This will be a short series unless readers can help me out. I have 6 stamps to show in this series of the Handley Page Dart Herald, the aircraft I have chosen to show on stamps.
I had so many aircraft in my head as I thought of one more series. Some aircraft I remember seeing at Temora, the Fokker Friendship is another I thought might make an interesting series but in the end I decided to go with one last British aircraft. Maybe just nostalgia for the British aircraft industry.
Handley page was a rather remarkable company. It was founded by Sir Fredrick Handley Page in 1909. He was a pioneer in the aircraft industry and became known as the father of the heavy bomber. The company was perhaps best known for the Halifax bomber and the Handley Page H.P 42, the 4 engine Hannibal biplane, which was a flagship of the Imperial Airways fleet between the two World Wars.
He was also known for his invention, with Gustav Lachmann, of the leading edge slot which improved the stall characteristics of aircraft wings.
Anyway lots to write about but let’s see a first stamp.

This one is from Jersey from the 1987 50th Anniversary of Jersey Airport issue. I started with this as it is the least impressive of the stamps I could find given that the Dart Herald is rather overshadowed by the BAC 111 – which for those of you with brilliant memories will know is a stamp that was shown on the BAC 111 series some months back.
Enough for now. More in the coming days. I hope you enjoy this series and as always I welcome feedback and especially details of stamps which show the Handley Page Dart Herald.
All the best, see you soon Michael cddstamps.com