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Aircraft and configuration
Virtavia includes early and late B Mk I and TB Mk I Hampdens. The early version has automatic leading-edge slats. Manuals describe pitch, roll and rudder trim, with different autoflight functions between simulator editions.
Hampden B Mk1 early slats
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Virtavia includes early and late B Mk I and TB Mk I Hampdens. The early version has automatic leading-edge slats. Manuals describe pitch, roll and rudder trim, with different autoflight functions between simulator editions.
History & design
P1344 and the Arctic convoy mission
The RAF Museum tells the Hampden story through P1344, built at Cricklewood in 1939. It served in training before conversion into a TB1 torpedo bomber with 144 Squadron at Leuchars. The conversion took an existing bomber into Coastal Command work, rather than creating a completely new airframe.
In September 1942 the squadron joined an effort to send 32 Hampdens to the Kola peninsula for Arctic convoy protection. P1344 encountered icing, changed its route and was attacked before crashing. Its recovery and eventual museum acquisition in 1992 explain why a damaged torpedo-bomber survivor is central to the type’s modern story. These events concern this individual aircraft, not the fate of every Hampden.
Royal Air Force Museum · Handley Page Hampden Restoration ↗Systems & details
Controls and equipment
The X-Plane 12 manual marks Auto Controls nonfunctional.
MSFS Auto Controls
The MSFS version provides basic altitude and heading functions on the Auto Controls panel.
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Simulator documentation
Controls and equipmentHampden B Mk1 early slats
The X-Plane 12 manual marks Auto Controls nonfunctional.
X-Plane 12 manual · pages 4 and 13 and handling section
Virtavia · Read the source ↗MSFS Auto ControlsHampden B Mk1 early slats
The MSFS version provides basic altitude and heading functions on the Auto Controls panel.
MSFS manual · pages 4 and 12, trim and Auto Controls
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Simulator documentation
Hampden B Mk1 early slats — simulator documentationVirtavia · X-Plane 12 manual · pages 4 and 13 and handling section Hampden B Mk1 early slats — simulator documentationVirtavia · MSFS manual · pages 4 and 12, trim and Auto ControlsAircraft background
Handley Page Hampden RestorationRoyal Air Force Museum · Museum account · P1344 and TB1 conversion, 16 December 2010Built-in force-feedback profiles
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Catalogue programme-20261011-v3 · 3 profile choices
Virtavia Hampden B Mk1 early slats
Virtavia · Free and Pro · Revision 2 · Inherited starting point
MSFS 2020 · X-Plane 12
The Hampden in early and late bomber and torpedo-bomber configurations.
Virtavia Hampden B Mk1
Virtavia · Free and Pro · Revision 2 · Inherited starting point
MSFS 2020 · X-Plane 12
The Hampden in early and late bomber and torpedo-bomber configurations.
Virtavia Hampden TB Mk1
Virtavia · Free and Pro · Revision 2 · Inherited starting point
MSFS 2020 · X-Plane 12
The Hampden in early and late bomber and torpedo-bomber configurations.
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