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Vickers F.B.27 Vimy side view. The Vickers F.B.27 Vimy is an equal-span twin-engine four-bay biplane, with balanced ailerons on both upper and lower wings. The engine nacelles were positioned mid-gap and contained the fuel tanks. It has a biplane empennage with elevators on both upper and lower surfaces and twin rudders. The main undercarriage ...
The Vickers team quickly assembled their aircraft and, at around 1:45 p.m. on 14 June the Vimy took off from Lester's Field. [12] Alcock and Brown flew the modified Vickers Vimy, powered by two Rolls-Royce Eagle 360 hp engines which were supported by an on-site Rolls-Royce team led by engineer Eric Platford. [13]
Vickers' first monoplane was tested at their new airfield in July 1911, using an under-license French-built rear fuselage and engine designed and made by the Frenchman Robert Esnault-Pelterie (hence R.E.P.) (the rest of the components being Vickers-built), it made its maiden flight, piloted by Captain Herbert F. Wood, the manager of Vickers ...
A Vickers Vimy bomber Handley Page Hyderabad H.P.24 Hyderabads. In 1919 the squadron was sent to India, flying patrols over the North-West Frontier from Mianwali and Kohat during the Mahsud and Waziristan campaigns. [1] It was disbanded by being renumbered to No. 27 Squadron on 1 April 1920. [8] [10]
Vickers Viking [131] [217] [218] [Note 12] UK Propeller Transport 1946 1959 Twin-engined piston monoplane Vickers Vildebeest [219] UK Propeller Torpedo bomber 1933 1942 Single-engined piston biplane Vickers Vimy [220] UK Propeller Bomber 1918 1931 Twin-engined piston biplane Vickers Vincent [182] UK Propeller Army co-operation 1934 1941 Single ...
Powered the Salmson 2A2, Latécoère 3, Farman 60, Voisin Triplane, Caudron C.23 and Vickers Vimy prototype: Salmson 9Za Variant of the 9Z, powered the Hanriot HD.3: Salmson 9Zm Variant of the 9Z Salmson 9Zc Variant of the 9Z Salmson CM.9 9 194 kW (260 hp) powered the Salmson 2 Berline: Salmson 18Z 18-cyl 2-row radial 125 mm (4.921 in)
Alcock and Brown flew the Atlantic in a Vickers Vimy fitted with Lang propellers; a letter held at Chertsey Museum confirms this and one of these four-bladed propellers survives at Brooklands Museum. The Lang company was absorbed into another aeronautical enterprise and vacated its works in Surrey.
Third prototype Vickers Vimy, B9954, crashes during testing – stalls on takeoff with full load at Martlesham Heath, bomb load explodes, pilot killed. [233] 25 September Chief Machinist's Mate Francis E. Ormsbee went to the rescue of two men in an aircraft which had crashed in Pensacola Bay, Florida. He pulled out the gunner and held him above ...