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"The HP42 and HP 45 designations were Handley Page's identifiers but this was not commonly known at the time"

I don't understand what this means; it implies that people in the 1930's couldn't work out that HP stood for Handley Page. However, I've found a website that states that the HP designation for both was HP 45 and that this was not publicly known for a while. Is this what was intended? Britmax 12:04, 2 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Regarding the G-AAXC Heracles

The Heracles is NOT the specific plane that appears in Message pour l'éternité - that plane is clearly identified on several panel as a fictional G-AAXJ Horus, both the name and the identifier code being plainly visible in several panels. The backstory given on page 18 spells this out clearly when it states the plane was a (still fictional) ninth plane built for the Foreign Office for diplomatic mail transport.

While the name Heracles is used in the actual book, it is always used to describe the overall plane model (ie, "an Handley-Page Heracles"), not the specific plane.--65.94.12.90 (talk) 06:18, 2 May 2008 (UTC)