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[1] [2] [3] XD816 1956 1956 1968 Royal Air Force: Brooklands Museum Weybridge, Surrey, England: On static display Cockpit only [4] [5] XD875 1957 August 27th, 1957 November 9th, 1962 Royal Air Force: Morayvia, Kinloss, Moray, Scotland: On static display Last Vickers Valiant ever built. Cockpit in preservation [6] [7] XD826 1956 December 15th ...
The Vickers Main Battle Tank Mk. 3 is a main battle tank by Vickers, a development of the Vickers MBT, and introduced in 1975 [3] for the export market. It was the last of the Vickers tanks to see sales in numbers abroad.
Vickers' entrant to this competition was the Type 253, though often known by the specification as the Vickers G.4/31. The Ministry had also ordered prototypes of other designs and some manufacturers had offered private ventures (aircraft built with their own money). The Type 253 was in competition with the Handley Page HP.47.
Vickers was a pioneer in producing airliners, early examples being converted from Vimy bombers. Post-WWII, Vickers went on to manufacture the piston-engined Vickers VC.1 Viking airliner, the Viscount and Vanguard turboprop airliners and (as part of BAC) the VC10 jet airliner, which was used in RAF service as an aerial refuelling tanker until 2013.
The Vickers Wellesley was a medium bomber that was designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs at Brooklands near Weybridge, Surrey. It was one of two aircraft to be named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , the other being the Vickers Wellington .
It was followed by a further 19 aircraft built wholly by Canadian Vickers, production continuing until October 1940. [8] The Northrop Delta was the first completely all-metal, stressed-skin aircraft built in Canada, however it was closely preceded by the Fairchild Super 71 , whose stressed skin construction was limited to the fuselage and not ...
Designs were offered by Handley Page, Vickers, Fairey and Armstrong Whitworth as well as Parnall. The G.4/31 was a large angular biplane with fixed spatted wheel spats powered by a 690 hp (515 kW) Bristol Pegasus IM3 with a Townend ring .
Data from Vickers Aircraft since 1908 General characteristics Crew: 5 Length: 58 ft 0 in (17.68 m) Wingspan: 112 ft 0 in (34.14 m) Empty weight: 10,000 lb (4,536 kg) Gross weight: 21,300 lb (9,662 kg) Powerplant: 2 × Rolls-Royce Condor water-cooled V12 engine, 650 hp (480 kW) each Performance Maximum speed: 105 mph (169 km/h, 91 kn) Endurance: 4 hr 30 min Time to altitude: 9.5 min to 6,000 ft ...