Notable Appearances in Media
G-AAUD Hanno starred in the 1937 short film, Air Outpost - 24 Hours at the City and Airport of Sharjah in the Persian Gulf. G-AAXD Horatius can be seen in the 1937 film Stolen Holiday with Kay Francis and Claude Rains. Midway through the film, they fly from London to Geneva on G-AAXD, a series of images shows the aircraft taking off and landing, with the registration clearly visible.
A fictitious aircraft, G-AAXJ Horus, stars in the fifth album of Belgian Yoko Tsuno series, Message pour l'éternité. An unidentified H.P.42 is clearly seen in the beginning of the Hayao Miyazaki animated film Kiki's Delivery Service. The H.P.42 features in Roy Lockwood's 1934 short documentary film Airport (a "day-in-the-life" of London's Croydon Airport).
An H.P.42 also appears in the Graphic Novel Biggles: Deadly Snow, which takes place in 1951. The markings on the plane are G-AAXF, which would correspond to the Helena, although the story happens 10 years after the particular plane stopped flying.
Heracles-class biplanes (and the luxurious, purpose-built Croydon Airport of the day) are also described by Alexander Frater when revisiting the first leg of the long and adventurous, early 1930s Imperial Airways England-to-Australia route, in the book Beyond the Blue Horizon.
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