The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber. It was designed during the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey. Led... 62 KB (8,027 words) - 22:09, 25 April 2024 |
Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth... 19 KB (2,020 words) - 02:30, 10 April 2024 |
manufactured by Vickers-Armstrongs during the late 1930s. It was intended to serve as a larger counterpart to the Vickers Wellington bomber. The two aircraft... 32 KB (3,936 words) - 06:52, 24 February 2024 |
The Vickers VC.1 Viking is a British twin-engine short-range airliner derived from the Vickers Wellington bomber and built by Vickers-Armstrongs Limited... 35 KB (3,501 words) - 18:51, 29 March 2024 |
Vickers Wellington LN514 was a Vickers Wellington bomber built in 1943 in record time, as part of a British propaganda effort during the Second World... 35 KB (3,885 words) - 13:29, 24 April 2024 |
Bomber Command at RAF Harwell to train night bomber crews on the Vickers Wellington. In 1942, it carried out seven operational missions. It was disbanded... 27 KB (3,615 words) - 20:47, 1 April 2024 |
76 Operational Training Unit Vickers Wellington - Formed at RAF Aqir on 1 October 1943, equipped with Vickers Wellington Mk.IIIs and Xs to train night... 31 KB (3,215 words) - 12:44, 4 April 2024 |
most used for maritime reconnaissance and air-sea rescue Vickers Wellesley (RAF) Vickers Wellington (RAF) Armstrong Whitworth Whitley (RAF) Avro Anson (RAF... 17 KB (1,303 words) - 12:27, 30 December 2023 |
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... 5 KB (444 words) - 16:42, 23 February 2023 |
Aircraft in fiction (section Vickers Wellington) a pilot and his crew of a Wellington bomber based at a fictional RAF station called "Hartley Magna". A Vickers Wellington features in the 1961 comedy... 402 KB (44,176 words) - 10:24, 25 April 2024 |
Bouncing bomb (redirect from Vickers Type 464) worked in the Drawing Office for Vickers-Armstrongs at the time, "Wallis was trying to do his ordinary job [for Vickers-Armstrongs] as well as all this... 41 KB (4,831 words) - 18:19, 1 March 2024 |
bulk of the bomber force was twin-engined medium bombers like the Vickers Wellington. While the number of heavy bombers in the RAF increased, greater tonnage... 3 KB (388 words) - 00:27, 10 February 2024 |
of the war. As a possible replacement for the pre-war Vickers Wellington medium bomber, Vickers had proposed a series of designs. The first, to meet the... 14 KB (1,804 words) - 03:11, 27 April 2024 |
The Vickers Wellington is a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber aircraft that was produced from 1936 to 1945 and used throughout World War II... 9 KB (1,022 words) - 03:48, 22 April 2023 |
flown: Junkers Ju 52/3m, Blenheim V, Lockheed Ventura GR V, Vickers Wellington, Vickers Warwick GR V, Harvard, Sikorsky S-55, Sikorsky S-51, Sud Aviation... 2 KB (93 words) - 16:09, 5 December 2021 |
Night-Time by Mark Haddon HMS Wellington, three Royal Navy ships HMNZS Wellington, two Royal New Zealand Navy ships Vickers Wellington, British medium bomber... 6 KB (631 words) - 14:41, 20 March 2024 |
Mk. I, Handley Page Halifax Mk. II, V, and VIII, Vickers Warwick C Mk. I & III, and Vickers Wellington Mk. IC & IV) Allied Expeditionary Air Force Air... 36 KB (4,223 words) - 07:38, 18 April 2024 |
(1918–2001), American pool player known by the Wimpy nickname The Vickers Wellington bomber aircraft, commonly known as the "Wimpy" amongst service personnel... 1 KB (188 words) - 15:58, 17 May 2023 |