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The Vickers F.B.5 (Fighting Biplane 5) (known as the "Gunbus") was a British two-seat pusher military biplane of the First World War.Armed with a single .303 in (7.7 mm) Lewis gun operated by the observer in the front of the nacelle, it was the first aircraft purpose-built for air-to-air combat to see service, making it the world's first operational fighter aircraft.
English Electric Canberra PR.3: WE139 Fiat CR.42 Falco: MM5701 Gloster Gladiator II: N5628: Forward fuselage only Gloster Meteor F.8: WH301: Hawker Hart II: J9941: Hawker Hurricane I: P2617: Code AF:F Hawker Hunter FGA.9: XG154: Hawker Tempest V: NV778: Target Towing markings Hawker Typhoon IB: MN235: Lockheed Hudson IIIA: A16-199: McDonnell ...
In 1912 Vickers commenced work on a two-seat pusher biplane, the F.B.1 (Fighting Biplane 1), it was one of the first aircraft designed to carry a machine gun, the FB5 (fighting biplane) Gun Bus. The company abandoned plans for float planes at the start of the war and concentrated on land-based aircraft.
Last Vickers Valiant ever built. Cockpit in preservation [6] [7] XD826 1956 December 15th, 1956 December 1964 Royal Air Force: Imperial War Museum at Duxford, Cambridgeshire, England: On static display Cockpit only [8] [9] XD857 1957 January 5th, 1957 February 19th, 1965 Royal Air Force: Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum at Flixton, Suffolk ...
18 Squadron FE.2B, overturned after an accident. The squadron was formed on 11 May 1915 at Northolt as part of the Royal Flying Corps. [4] It arrived in France on 19 November 1915, [5] principally equipped with the Vickers FB5 'Gunbus', supplemented by a few Airco DH.2s and Bristol Scouts, and operating in the Army cooperation role.
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Vickers was a British engineering company that existed from 1828 until 1999. ... This was owned by Vickers, English Electric and Bristol (holding 40%, 40% and 20% ...
(1878–1915) Australian. Used a Bristol Monoplane at Brooklands, killed in action 21 January 1915 off Belgian Coast, [16] flying a Vickers FB5 Born in Melbourne and educated at Geelong Grammar School, before joining the British Army and serving in the 2nd Boer War: Queen's South Africa Medal and 8 clasps. 197 Ronald Louis Charteris 12 March ...