The Vickers Varsity is a retired British twin-engined crew trainer operated by the Royal Air Force from 1951 to 1976. The Varsity was developed by Vickers...
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a.k.a., the Milwaukee Road Varsity Line, the railway line that formerly connected Oxford and Cambridge Vickers Varsity, a post-World War II military...
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jet transport aircraft. Military developments were the Vickers Valetta and the Vickers Varsity. The Ministry of Aircraft Production ordered three prototype...
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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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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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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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(1967-83) Airfields used: RAF Topcliffe, RAF Finningley Aircraft used: Vickers Varsity T.1 & Armstrong Whitworth Argosy C.1 The Air Electronics School RAF...
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museum. Just outside the museum an English Electric Canberra (Tp 52), Vickers Varsity (Tp 82) and Douglas C-47A Skytrain (Tp79) are on display but not yet...
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Jaguar GR.3A XZ369 Vickers VC10 C.1K XV108 (forward fuselage) Vickers Vanguard V953C G-APES (nose) Vickers Varsity T.1 WL626 Vickers Viscount 804 G-CSZB...
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by Rolls-Royce. The Eland was first tested in flight in 1953 in a Vickers Varsity aircraft. Further flight proving was carried out from 1955 using the...
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T11 twin-seat jets. In March 1962 these types were exchanged for the Vickers Varsity T.1 twin piston-engine pilot trainers. 5 FTS was disbanded on 31 December...
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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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Sea Hawk - WV798 1 x Hawker Siddeley Harrier - XV753 1 x Vickers Varsity - WL679 1 x Vickers VC10 - ZA148 1 x de Havilland Sea Devon - G-SDEV / XK895...
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the main objective of No. 6 Flying Training School RAF, first using Vickers Varsity and later Hawker Siddeley Dominie aircraft. Although Finningley passed...
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WF369 under-wing serial on a Vickers Varsity, 1950s....
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minority of military training aircraft, such as the Beechcraft 18, Vickers Varsity, Hawker Siddeley Dominie and Boeing T-43 were developed from transport...
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platform Tp 81 Grumman Goose 1 1951–1962 - Tp 82 Vickers Varsity 1 1953–1973 Developed from the Vickers VC.1 Viking Tp 83 Percival Pembroke 18 1954–1976...
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collided with WJ914 Vickers Varsity T.1 of the RAF Technical College near RAF Oakington, two killed in Vampire and six in Varsity. 19 July 1960 - XH617...
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The Vickers VC10 is a mid-sized, narrow-body long-range British jet airliner designed and built by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd and first flown at...
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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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Pioneer Scottish Aviation Twin Pioneer Short Belfast Vickers Valetta Vickers VC10 Vickers Varsity Westland Dragonfly Westland Whirlwind Westland Wessex...
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Exhibition". Royal Air Force Museum. Retrieved 24 July 2022. "Individual History Vickers Valiant B (K) Mk.I XD818/7894M Museum Accession Number 1994/1352/A" (PDF)...
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Trainers for RAF Training Command, which were intended to replace the Vickers Varsity. One aircraft XP411 was re-designated as the Argosy T Mk 1 in advance...
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developed in BLEU and RAF aircraft such as the English Electric Canberra, Vickers Varsity and Avro Vulcan, and later for BEA's Trident fleet, which entered service...
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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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11 twin-seat jets. In March 1962 these types were exchanged for the Vickers Varsity T.1 twin piston-engine navigational trainers. The school took new graduates...
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1978, pp. 513–514 Thetford, 1978, pp.608 Air-Britain: Viking - Valetta - Varsity, 1975 Thetford, 1978, pp. 515–516 Thetford, 1978, pp. 504–505 Thetford...
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Swift 1949: First flight of Avro Shackleton 1949: First flight of Vickers Varsity 1949: First Flight of Avro 707 1949: First Flight of De Havilland Comet...
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and initially only flew the Avro Anson C.19 but in March 1955 the Vickers Varsity T.1 was added and in April of the same year Anson C.12's were also...
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1967 became the Air Electronics and Engineers School RAF, flying the Vickers Varsity T.1 until 26 October 1973. From 1 October 1964, the Northern Communications...
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