The Vickers F.B.5 (Fighting Biplane 5) (known as the "Gunbus") was a British two-seat pusher military biplane of the First World War. Armed with a single...
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leading to the Vickers F.B.5 "Gunbus", which saw widespread service during World War I. The Experimental Fighting Biplane No. 1 (E.F.B.1) was designed...
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The Vickers F.B.19 was a British single-seat fighting scout of the First World War, developed from the Barnwell Bullet prototype, and sometimes known...
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F.E.8 Royal Aircraft Factory B.E.2 Vickers VIM Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Vickers F.B.5 Airco DH.1 Related lists List of aircraft...
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The Vickers Vimy was a British heavy bomber aircraft developed and manufactured by Vickers Limited. Developed during the latter stages of the First World...
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The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a water-cooled .303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army...
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In 1916, Vickers Limited designed a two-seat pusher configuration biplane fighter, the F.B.23, to replace its obsolete Vickers F.B.5 and F.B.9 "Gunbuses"...
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Lewis gun (category EngvarB from March 2020)
the pilot), and the British pusher fighters Vickers F.B.5, Airco D.H.2, Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2 and F.E.8 could readily use the Lewis as direct forward-firing...
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The Vickers F.B.16 was a British single-seat fighter aircraft of the First World War. It was originally designed to be powered by an experimental radial...
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Biplane Sopwith Sparrow Sopwith Triplane SPAD S.XII Vickers F.B.7/7A Vickers F.B.27 Vimy Vickers F.B.26 Vampire Wright Model H British unmanned aerial vehicles...
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The Vickers F.B.11 was a prototype British three-seat escort fighter of the First World War. A large single-engined biplane, it carried one gunner in...
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Lewis gun in nose Related development Vickers E.F.B.7 Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Vickers F.B.5 Bruce 1957, p. 669. Mason 1992, pp...
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floatplanes) Vickers F.B.5 1914, 224 built Voisin III 1914 bomber, about 3200 built Wight Pusher Seaplane 1914, 11 built Breguet Bre.5 1915 2 seat military...
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was a British pilot and aeronautics pioneer. He designed the Vickers F.B.5. and Vickers E.F.B.1. According to Mervyn O'Gorman, Low coined the term "drag"...
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gun, involved either aircraft with pusher props like the Vickers F.B.5, Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2 and Airco DH.2, wing mounts like that of the Nieuport...
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with the designation B.9/48 written around the Type 660 Vickers design; and an 'Instruction to Proceed' was received by Vickers on 16 April 1948. In February...
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The Vickers F.B.26 Vampire was a British single-seat pusher biplane fighter built by Vickers during the First World War. Four were built by Vickers at...
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company) the Voisin bombers (3,200 built), the Vickers F.B.5 "Gunbus", and the Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2; however, even these found themselves being...
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derivative, the Vickers VC.1 Viking. In October 1932, the British Air Ministry invited Vickers to tender for the recently issued Specification B.9/32, which...
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aircraft. The first purpose-designed fighter aircraft included the British Vickers F.B.5, and machine guns were also fitted to several French types, such as...
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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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Voisin L (redirect from Voison 13.5 Metres)
observer Aircraft of comparable role, configuration, and era Farman MF.7 Vickers F.B.5 Related lists List of military aircraft of France List of World War...
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The Vickers F.B.24 was a British two-seat fighter aircraft of the First World War. Only a few prototypes were built, as, although it had good performance...
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near Achiet-le-Grand, France, Second Lieutenant Insall, on patrol in Vickers F.B.5 Gunbus No. 5074 with 1st Class Air Mechanic T. H. Donald, engaged an...
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fighter aircraft is a prefix "F-", followed by a number, ground attack aircraft are prefixed with “A-” and bombers with “B-”. Fighter aircraft from the...
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over the Germans by introducing machine-gun armed types such as the Vickers F.B.5 Gunbus fighter and the Morane-Saulnier L. In response, Germany bolstered...
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List of British innovations and discoveries (category EngvarB from November 2023)
– William Ewart Fairbairn and Eric A. Sykes Fighter aircraft – The Vickers F.B.5 Gunbus of 1914 was the first of its kind. Safety fuse – William Bickford...
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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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over the Germans by introducing machine-gun armed types such as the Vickers F.B.5 Gunbus fighter and the Morane-Saulnier L. By early 1915, the German...
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