Royal Flying Corps (RFC), the Vimy was designed by Rex Pierson, Vickers' chief designer. Only a handful of Vickers Vimy aircraft had entered service by... 35 KB (4,426 words) - 14:54, 8 February 2024 |
non-stop transatlantic flight. They flew a modified First World War Vickers Vimy bomber from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, County Galway, Ireland... 32 KB (3,520 words) - 11:05, 19 April 2024 |
Vickers E.F.B.8 Vickers F.B.11 Vickers F.B.12 Vickers F.B.14 Vickers F.B.16 Vickers F.B.19 Vickers F.B.24 Vickers F.B.25 Vickers Vampire Vickers Vimy... 19 KB (2,020 words) - 12:00, 30 April 2024 |
Adelaide Airport (section Vickers Vimy museum) Aerodrome to Darwin via Singapore and Batavia on 10 December 1919. Their Vickers Vimy aircraft, affectionately known as "God 'Elp All Of Us", is preserved... 48 KB (3,489 words) - 11:36, 5 May 2024 |
The Vickers Virginia was a biplane heavy bomber of the British Royal Air Force, developed from the Vickers Vimy. Work on the Virginia was started in 1920... 11 KB (1,270 words) - 11:10, 11 April 2024 |
RAF. The Vernon was a development of the Vickers Vimy Commercial, a passenger variant of the famous Vickers Vimy bomber, and was powered by twin Napier... 6 KB (518 words) - 18:42, 2 February 2023 |
were larger than the standard Luftwaffe bombers of World War II. The Vickers Vimy, a long-range heavy bomber powered by two Rolls-Royce Eagle engines,... 30 KB (4,280 words) - 21:23, 12 January 2024 |
1919 England to Australia flight (section Vickers Vimy) co-pilot, and mechanics James Bennett and Wally Shiers, in a modified Vickers Vimy bomber. In early 1919, the Commonwealth Government of Australia offered... 10 KB (1,069 words) - 12:10, 29 April 2024 |
Rex Pierson (category Vickers people) designer and chief designer at Vickers Limited later Vickers-Armstrongs Aircraft Ltd. He was responsible for the Vickers Vimy, a heavy bomber designed during... 5 KB (444 words) - 16:42, 23 February 2023 |
Metropolitan-Vickers, then merging the remaining bulk of the original business with Armstrong Whitworth to form Vickers-Armstrongs. The Vickers name resurfaced... 16 KB (1,894 words) - 19:43, 9 April 2024 |
flew from Hounslow Heath Aerodrome, England on 12 November 1919 in a Vickers Vimy, eventually landing in Darwin Australia on 10 December, taking less than... 8 KB (676 words) - 14:41, 3 February 2024 |
"Wings of Peace (Vickers Vulcan)". Aeroplane Monthly. Kelsey. pp. 609–612. Stroud, John (February 1984). "Wings of Peace (Vickers Vimy Commercial)". Aeroplane... 49 KB (4,783 words) - 04:57, 2 May 2024 |
The Vickers Vulcan was a British single-engine biplane airliner of the 1920s built by Vickers Limited at Brooklands Aerodrome, Surrey. It carried eight... 5 KB (477 words) - 23:27, 5 February 2024 |
bomber into a luxury cabin aircraft. They also purchased a ten-passenger Vickers Vimy Commercial, also a converted bomber design. On 8 October 1921, A Farman... 5 KB (390 words) - 10:24, 24 June 2022 |
Brown took off from Lester's Field in St. John's, Newfoundland in a Vickers Vimy. They navigated across the Atlantic Ocean by dead reckoning and landed... 27 KB (3,578 words) - 00:50, 20 April 2024 |
was made in 1919, by John Alcock and Arthur Brown, in a twin-engine Vickers Vimy, from Newfoundland to Ireland in sixteen hours. By 1936 the Bureau of... 29 KB (3,500 words) - 11:12, 29 April 2024 |
The Vickers VC10 is a mid-sized, narrow-body long-range British jet airliner designed and built by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd and first flown at... 60 KB (7,292 words) - 15:01, 24 April 2024 |
First World War Vickers Vimy, British heavy bomber aircraft of the First World War and post-First World War era Canadian National Vimy Memorial, a memorial... 2 KB (347 words) - 13:33, 25 June 2020 |
Air Force since the First World War, starting with the likes of the Vickers Vimy and Handley Page Type O. The Overstrand was also the first aircraft to... 15 KB (1,906 words) - 12:31, 3 February 2024 |
cross the Atlantic (but in multiple stages). Later that year, a British Vickers Vimy piloted by Alcock and Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight... 22 KB (2,745 words) - 04:40, 29 February 2024 |
recovered Vimy aircraft was presented to the nation. On 18 December 1919, Alcock was piloting a new Vickers amphibious aircraft, the Vickers Viking, to... 11 KB (1,103 words) - 03:55, 9 February 2024 |