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    The Vickers Valiant was a British high-altitude jet bomber designed to carry nuclear weapons, and in the 1950s and 1960s was part of the Royal Air Force's...
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  • demonstrated in the turret of the Vickers Mk. 7 were later incorporated into the Challenger 2. Following trials of the Vickers Valiant in the Middle East in 1983...
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  • The Vickers Main Battle Tank Mk. 4 later known as the Vickers Valiant was a main battle tank developed as a private venture by British company Vickers for...
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    models of strategic bomber, known collectively as the V class, were the Vickers Valiant, which first flew in 1951 and entered service in 1955; the Avro Vulcan...
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  • Look up valiant in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Valiant may refer to: James Valiant (1884–1917), English cricketer The Valiant Brothers, a professional...
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  • Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth...
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    However Vickers decided to build a single prototype as a private venture for evaluation against the specification. The Vickers 131 Valiant was a single-bay...
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    and hydrogen bomb programmes. During Operation Buffalo in 1956, a Vickers Valiant from the squadron became the first British aircraft to drop a live...
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    first, Valiant (the nameship) commissioned in 1966 three years after Dreadnought, and Warspite the following year. Both were built by Vickers at Barrow-in-Furness...
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    of the Armstrong-Siddeley Sapphire. The first application was the Vickers Valiant. The engine entered production in 1950 as the RA.3/Mk.101 with 6,500 lbf...
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  • Vickers Valiant, one of the V-bombers, but also featured substantial changes. In addition to its military application, both the Ministry and Vickers also...
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  • Vickers and are in preservation. "60th Anniversary of Valiant's First Flight." Royal Air Force Museum, 17 May 2011. "Thunder & Lightnings - Vickers Valiant...
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    be operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF), the other two being the Vickers Valiant and the Avro Vulcan. Entering service in 1958, the Victor was initially...
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    version of Green Granite known as Short Granite was dropped from a Vickers Valiant bomber flown by Wing Commander Kenneth Hubbard. The bomb's yield was...
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    English Electric Canberra, and later the V-bomber force and tankers: Vickers Valiant and Handley Page Victor. The station is also one of the few large enough...
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  • Civilian models of the Vickers Valiant and Handley Page Victor V-bombers were also planned for the same contract. The Vickers V-1000 won the contest over...
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    The Vickers MBT is a series of main battle tanks (MBTs) developed as a private venture by British company Vickers-Armstrongs for export. The design makes...
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    Command as it was the first Royal Air Force (RAF) station to receive the Vickers Valiant when No. 138 Squadron RAF re-formed here in 1955. In 1978, the site...
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  • Conversion Unit. No. 1321 (Valiant/Blue Danube Trials) Flight RAF was reformed at RAF Wittering on 3 August 1954 as a Vickers Valiant unit to integrate the...
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    put into production because these swept-wing designs, such as the Vickers Valiant, were by then available. As their usefulness as an interim bomber aircraft...
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  • record of 54 by a test pilot), from the Supermarine Spitfire, to the Vickers Valiant. He also holds the current second place record for 366 general types...
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    19th-century restoration and carved the pulpit and other features. Vickers Valiant XD864 of 7 Squadron at RAF Honington, took off from RAF Wittering on...
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    The squadron disbanded on 2 January 1956 before reforming with the Vickers Valiant at RAF Honington in Suffolk in December that year, flying them in the...
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    deliver them did not become available until 1955. On 11 October 1956, a Vickers Valiant from No. 49 Squadron RAF piloted by Edwin Flavell became the first...
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    The Vickers Swallow was a supersonic aircraft project headed by Barnes Wallis, working at the British aircraft company Vickers-Armstrongs. It was a wing-controlled...
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    1962. It was the first 'V-bomber' squadron of the RAF, flying the Vickers Valiant between 1955 and 1962. No. 138 Squadron RAF was originally to be formed...
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  • and Canadian scientists. During the Kite test on 11 October 1956, a Vickers Valiant of No. 49 Squadron RAF piloted by Squadron Leader Ted Flavell became...
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  • DFC AFC (26 February 1920 – 21 January 2004) was the pilot of an RAF Vickers Valiant bomber which dropped Britain's first live thermonuclear weapon (H-Bomb)...
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    Myasishchev M-4 (52,910 lb (24,000 kg)) Tupolev Tu-16 (20,000 lb (9,100 kg)) Vickers Valiant (21,000 lb (9,500 kg)) Avro Vulcan (21,000 lb (9,500 kg)) Handley Page...
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    The Tank, Infantry, Valiant (A38) was a British tank design of the Second World War that only reached the prototype stage. It was intended to meet a specification...
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