Originally Posted by
Liobian
.....blagged a flight over the Severn estuary. Recall it was v noisy and quite an uphill walk in the cabin.
I presume you are meaning in flight here rather than on the ground. Did the Hastings suffer from the same issue as its stablemate the Hermes, of flying excessively tail-down ? How did Handley-Page manage to get the C of G so wrong on this group of types ?