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2. Vickers Vimy - Wikipedia

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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 ...

3. Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown - Wikipedia

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   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]

4. Rolls-Royce Eagle - Wikipedia

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   Rolls-Royce Eagle engines at Derby in 1919. Development of the new 20 litre engine was led by Henry Royce from his home in Kent.Based initially on the 7.4 litre 40/50 Rolls-Royce Silver Ghost engine, and drawing also on the design of a 7.2 litre Daimler DF80 aero engine used in a 1913 Grand Prix Mercedes that had been acquired, [2] the power was increased by doubling the number of cylinders to ...

5. Stanley Cockerell - Wikipedia

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   On 21 August 1919, Cockerell flew a Vickers Vimy from London to Amsterdam loaded with copies of The Times, which were then sold for the benefit of local charities. [9]On 24 June 1920, Cockerell took off from Brooklands in a Vickers Vimy on a pioneering flight to South Africa in an attempt to test the air route from Cairo to the Cape of Good Hope.

6. C. W. "Bill" Whitney - Wikipedia

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   Flying replica of the Vickers Vimy [4] - The replica aircraft was used to re-enact the first flights from England to Australia, England to South Africa and the US to England. Amethyst Falcon ultralight biplane - Plans-built single seat aircraft for basic aerobatic flying (+6G / -3G), employs sheet metal fabric covered wings with tubular steel ...

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9. 1919 England to Australia flight - Wikipedia

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   The winning Vickers Vimy, 1919 Vickers entered a converted Vimy bomber (G-EAOU) (the registration being whimsically said to stand for "God 'elp all of us"), crewed by Captain Ross Macpherson Smith with his brother Lieutenant Keith Macpherson Smith as co-pilot and mechanics Sergeant W.H. (Wally) Shiers and Sergeant J.M. (Jim) Bennett.