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    The Vickers Vulcan was a British single-engine biplane airliner of the 1920s built by Vickers Limited at Brooklands Aerodrome, Surrey. It carried eight...
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  • Look up Vulcan or vulcan in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Vulcan may refer to: Vulcan (mythology), the god of fire, volcanoes, metalworking, and the...
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  • Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth...
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    The Avro Vulcan (later Hawker Siddeley Vulcan from July 1963) is a jet-powered, tailless, delta-wing, high-altitude, strategic bomber, which was operated...
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    with the letter "V". Vickers' submission had initially been rejected as not being as advanced as the Victor and the Vulcan, but Vickers' chief designer George...
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    The 1928 Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan crash occurred on 13 July 1928 when a Vickers Vulcan on a test flight from Croydon Airport with a pilot and five...
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  • "Wings of Peace (Vickers Vulcan)". Aeroplane Monthly. Kelsey. pp. 609–612. Stroud, John (February 1984). "Wings of Peace (Vickers Vimy Commercial)"....
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  • Civilian models of the Vickers Valiant and Handley Page Victor V-bombers were also planned for the same contract. The Vickers V-1000 won the contest over...
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  • board. July 13 – In the 1928 Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan crash, an Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan on a test flight from Croydon Airport, England...
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    collectively as the V class, were the Vickers Valiant, which first flew in 1951 and entered service in 1955; the Avro Vulcan, which first flew in 1952 and entered...
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  • Reliant Supermarine Swan Travel Air 6000 Udet U 11 Kondor Vickers Vimy Commercial Vickers Vulcan Vultee V-1 Westland Wessex Wibault 280 Wibault 360 Zeppelin-Staaken...
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    Supermarine Swan Van Berkel W-B Vickers F.B.11 Vickers Valparaiso Vickers Vernon Vickers Viking Vickers Vulcan Vickers Vulture Vickers Vimy Wight Converted Seaplane...
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    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...
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    Havilland DH.34 de Havilland Hercules de Havilland Albatross Short Scylla Vickers Vulcan Related lists Civil air transport Already shown to work with the Handley...
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  • Underriver, Kent killing one of the eleven people on board. 1928 13 July – Vickers Vulcan G-EBLB of Imperial Airways, conducting a test flight from Croydon Airport...
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  • Vickers Vimy Vickers Vincent Vickers Vireo Vickers Virginia Vickers Viscount Vickers Vixen Vickers Vulcan Vickers Warwick Vickers Wellesley Vickers Wellington...
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  • Imperial Airways de Havilland DH.34 crash G-EBLB Vickers Vulcan 1928 Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan crash G-EBMT Handley Page W.10 1929 Imperial Airways...
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    The Vulcan Foundry Limited was an English locomotive builder sited at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire (now Merseyside). The Vulcan Foundry opened in 1832...
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    The Vickers Viscount is a British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 by Vickers-Armstrongs. A design requirement from the Brabazon Committee...
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    comparable role, configuration, and era BAT F.K.26 Salmson 2 Limousine Vickers Vulcan Jackson 1973, p.62. Jackson 1987, p.156. Jackson 1987, pp. 156–157....
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  • Tourer Bristol Type 62 de Havilland DH.18 de Havilland DH.34 Vickers Vimy Commercial Vickers Vulcan Westland Limousine List of defunct airlines of the United...
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    Wellington, the other being the Vickers Wellesley. A larger heavy bomber aircraft designed to Specification B.1/35, the Vickers Warwick, was developed in parallel...
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  • single-engine flying boat Vickers Vimy Commercial twin-engine biplane airliner Vickers Vulcan single-engine biplane airliner Vickers Viscount turboprop airliner...
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    The Vickers Vimy was a British heavy bomber aircraft developed and manufactured by Vickers Limited. Developed during the latter stages of the First World...
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  • Metropolitan-Vickers, then merging the remaining bulk of the original business with Armstrong Whitworth to form Vickers-Armstrongs. The Vickers name resurfaced...
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    through a tractor propeller, and was armed with a single belt-fed Vickers gun. Vickers continued to pursue the development of armed pusher biplanes, and...
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    operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF), the other two being the Vickers Valiant and the Avro Vulcan. Entering service in 1958, the Victor was initially developed...
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  • chaired by Dudley Docker, and Vickers Limited, of Barrow-in-Furness. On 15 March 1919, Docker agreed terms with Vickers, for Vickers to purchase all the shares...
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    Ensign de Havilland DH.34 de Havilland Hercules de Havilland Albatross Vickers Vulcan Related lists Civil air transport Tapper 1988, p. 211 Tapper 1988, p...
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    The Vickers Vanguard was a short/medium-range turboprop airliner designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs. The Vanguard...
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