Handley Page

On 20 August 1959 a prototype British bomber - a Handley Page Victor B.2 - disappeared during flight trials along with its five crew members.

This particular story, of the crew of a Handley Page Halifax heavy bomber, is about how a small group of young Canadians flew in the skies over Europe during the Battle of the Ruhr.

After he finished his studies in London, he began his first job at Handley Page Aircraft, only for them to go bankrupt soon afterwards.

For seven decades, the Handley Page Halifax bomber was believed to be at the bottom of the Adriatic Sea.

The centrepiece of the new mathematics gallery at the museum in South Kensington will be the Handley Page aircraft, a British experimental plane from 1929, which will be suspended from the ceiling.