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    The Vickers Valetta is a twin-engine military transport aircraft developed and produced by the British manufacturing company Vickers-Armstrongs Ltd. Developed...
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  • The Vickers VC.1 Viking is a British twin-engine short-range airliner derived from the Vickers Wellington bomber and built by Vickers-Armstrongs Limited...
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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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    Force from 1951 to 1976. The Varsity was developed by Vickers and based on the Viking and Valetta to meet Air Ministry Specification T.13/48 for a twin-engined...
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    On 15 January 1953, a twin-engined Vickers Valetta transport aircraft of the Royal Air Force (RAF), serial number VX562, collided over the Mediterranean...
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  • Douglas Dakota then Vickers Valetta C1 No. 148 Squadron RAF 1941–1942 Vickers Wellington IC & II No. 162 Squadron RAF 1942 Vickers Wellington IC & II No...
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    On 17 April 1957, a twin-engined Vickers Valetta C.1 transport aircraft, serial number VW832, of 84 Squadron, Royal Air Force crashed and was destroyed...
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    On 6 January 1954 WJ474 a twin-engined Vickers Valetta training aircraft of No. 2 Air Navigation School Royal Air Force crashed near RAF Bovingdon just...
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    through a tractor propeller, and was armed with a single belt-fed Vickers gun. Vickers continued to pursue the development of armed pusher biplanes, and...
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  • with Vickers Valetta C.1 VX252 28 miles South West of Agrigento, Sicily during a night exercise, seven killed on Lancaster and 19 on the Valetta. 7 May...
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    Support) Flight; operating the Handley Page Hastings, and later the Vickers Valetta, disbanding on 1 April 1957 (67 years ago) (1957-04-01). No 1312 (In...
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    Solent Short Stirling SNCASE SE-1010 Vickers Valetta Vickers Varsity Vickers VC.1 Viking Vickers Wellesley Vickers Wellington RAF Snaith Museum https://www...
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    with the letter "V". Vickers' submission had initially been rejected as not being as advanced as the Victor and the Vulcan, but Vickers' chief designer George...
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    Wellington, the other being the Vickers Wellesley. A larger heavy bomber aircraft designed to Specification B.1/35, the Vickers Warwick, was developed in parallel...
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    Later versions of the aircraft were known as the Vickers Vulture and Vickers Vanellus. Research on Vickers' first amphibious aircraft type began in December...
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    The Vickers Vanguard was a short/medium-range turboprop airliner designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs. The Vanguard...
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    The Vickers Viscount is a British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 by Vickers-Armstrongs. A design requirement from the Brabazon Committee...
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  • RAF – operating Vickers Valetta C1 No. 103 Squadron RAF – operating Bristol Sycamore HC1 No. 114 Squadron RAF – operating Vickers Valetta C1, de Havilland...
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  • RAAF Brocklesby, New South Wales, Australia January 15, 1953 26 0 RAF Vickers Valetta / RAF Avro Lancaster Mediterranean Sea near Sicily August 11, 1955...
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  • the main transport staging post in the Canal Zone and also had five Vickers Valetta (MRT) Squadrons inc. 70, 78, 114 and 216. Along with the other RAF...
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  • on the same day, 204 Squadron, a transport squadron equipped with Vickers Valettas based at RAF Fayid in Egypt, was renumbered to No. 84 Squadron. The...
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    No. 27 Squadron RAF with Canberra B.2's. No. 30 Squadron RAF with Vickers Valetta C.1's. No. 34 Squadron RAF with Hunter F.5's. No. 35 Squadron RAF with...
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  • active in the post-war period as a transport squadron, converting to Vickers Valetta C.1s in April 1950, before being disbanded at RAF Fayid in Egypt on...
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  • London: Putnam. p. 431. OCLC 3875235. Andrews, E. N.; Morgan, E. B. (1990). Vickers Aircraft since 1908. London: Putnam. p. 104. ISBN 978-0-85177-815-0. Thetford...
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    The parking areas are open 24 hours a day On 18 February 1951, a RAF Vickers Valetta with 22 passengers and crew on a military flight suffered a failure...
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  • humanitarian supply flights during the Berlin Airlift. Re-equipment with the Vickers Valetta came in December 1950. The heavier four-engine Blackburn Beverley was...
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    held by John Dogget in 1638. On 6 January 1954, a Royal Air Force Vickers Valetta twin-engine training aircraft crashed at Tom's Hill, just south of...
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    calls, the RAF in Hong Kong immediately redirected a Saigon-bound Vickers Valetta military transport and further despatched a Short Sunderland flying...
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  • designed and manufactured by Vickers-Armstrongs during the late 1930s. It was intended to serve as a larger counterpart to the Vickers Wellington bomber. The...
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    replacement for its obsolete piston engined transport fleet, including the Vickers Valetta and Handley Page Hastings. During 1959, the British Air Ministry released...
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