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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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 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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strike, leading to increased air freight business. On 10 October, Vickers Vanguard G-AXNT was leased from Air Holdings. DC-4 G-ASEN was sold to Wenela...
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Look up vanguard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The vanguard is the leading part of an advancing military formation. Vanguard may also refer to: Chengdu...
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mid to late 1950s by Rolls-Royce Limited to a requirement for the Vickers Vanguard airliner. It was first test flown during 1956 in the nose of a modified...
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informed Vickers of its requirement for an aircraft with 10% lower costs per seat-mile than the 800 series Viscount. This provided the impetus for Vickers to...
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The 1965 British European Airways Vickers Vanguard crash was a domestic flight operated by a Vickers Vanguard 951 aircraft of British European Airways...
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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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The Vickers Vanguard was a 1920s British airliner developed by Vickers Limited from the Victoria. Developed from the earlier Victoria with the introduction...
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on 1 April 2023. Retrieved 2023-06-12. "A Virtual Museum dedicated to the Vickers-Armstrongs Viscount". Vickers Viscount Museum. Retrieved 2023-06-12....
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The airline then acquired a Merchantman freighter version of the Vickers Vanguard and later the airline's name changed to DHL Air on 16 May 1989.[citation...
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is based at Faslane, HMNB Clyde, Argyll, Scotland. Vanguard was built at Barrow-in-Furness by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd, later BAE Systems...
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On 2 October 1971, whilst en route at 19,000 feet (5,791 m), the Vickers Vanguard the pressure bulkhead at the rear of the cabin failed. The resulting...
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Cargo. Aircraft types used by the division between 1974 and 1983 were Vickers 953C, Boeing 707-300C and Boeing 747-200F. The Boeing 747-400F was operated...
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Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Vickers Vanguard)
Invicta International Airlines Flight 435 (IM435) was a Vickers Vanguard 952, flying from Bristol Lulsgate to Basel-Mulhouse, which crashed into a forested...
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comprises four vessels: Vanguard, Victorious, Vigilant and Vengeance, built between 1986 and 1999 at Barrow-in-Furness by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering...
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result of the BEA specification, Vickers developed an enlarged derivative of the Viscount for BEA, the Vickers Vanguard, which was ordered by the airline...
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was followed by the larger Vickers Vanguard turboprop. TCA was the only airline in North America to operate the Vanguard in scheduled passenger service...
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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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- operated in passenger configuration Lockheed L-1011 TriStar Vickers Vanguard Vickers Viscount Merpati Training Center (MTC) is a division of strategic...
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An-10 Bristol Britannia Canadair CL-44 Lockheed L-188 Electra Vickers Vanguard Vickers Viscount Related lists List of civil aircraft реестр самолётов...
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Canadair CL-44, Boeing 727, Comet, Vickers Viscount, Vickers Vanguard, Convair CV 990, Lockheed C-130 Hercules, Vickers VC10, and Fokker F-27 by 1962. In...
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Zichy (pilot and racing driver) Brooklands Museum exhibits Vickers Vanguard - G-APEP Vickers Viscount 800 - G-APIM Engine of a Morgan three-wheeler The...
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Rolls-Royce Limited (section Merger with Vickers)
and Vickers Viscount aircraft, whilst the more powerful Tyne powered the Breguet Atlantique, Transall C-160, Short Belfast, and Vickers Vanguard, and...
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Kindle book entitled "The Skydrol Story", in which it describes how the Vickers Vanguard was the first non US built aircraft to introduce Skydrol as a hydraulic...
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Aviation Ltd., Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft), the Bristol Aeroplane Company and Hunting Aircraft in 1960. Bristol, English Electric and Vickers became "parents"...
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consisted of the following aircraft (as of August 2005): 2 Vickers Viscount 1 Vickers Vanguard 1 Fokker F28 3 Boeing 737-200 Flight International, 3–9 October...
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and era Bristol Britannia Ilyushin Il-18 Lockheed L-100 Hercules Vickers Vanguard Related lists List of airliners Gordon, Yefim; Komissarov, Dmitry (2007)...
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on board. July 13 – In the 1928 Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan crash, an Imperial Airways Vickers Vulcan on a test flight from Croydon Airport, England...
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