The Vickers Wellington is a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber. It was designed during the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey. Led...
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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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Vickers Wellington LN514 was a Vickers Wellington bomber built in 1943 in record time, as part of a British propaganda effort during the Second World...
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manufactured by Vickers-Armstrongs during the late 1930s. It was intended to serve as a larger counterpart to the Vickers Wellington bomber. The two aircraft...
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Bomber Command at RAF Harwell to train night bomber crews on the Vickers Wellington. In 1942, it carried out seven operational missions. It was disbanded...
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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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flown: Junkers Ju 52/3m, Blenheim V, Lockheed Ventura GR V, Vickers Wellington, Vickers Warwick GR V, Harvard, Sikorsky S-55, Sikorsky S-51, Sud Aviation...
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The Vickers Wellesley was a medium bomber that was designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs at Brooklands near Weybridge...
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No. 149 Squadron RAF (section Vickers Wellington)
equipped with Heyford biplane bombers, the squadron converted to Vickers Wellingtons in January 1939. On 4 September 1939 L4259 was flown on "Ops Brunsbüttel...
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of the war. As a possible replacement for the pre-war Vickers Wellington medium bomber, Vickers had proposed a series of designs. The first, to meet the...
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"Wimpy", in reference to the character, was the nickname given to the Vickers Wellington bomber. Wimpy is also the namesake of the large chain of Wimpy hamburger...
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most used for maritime reconnaissance and air-sea rescue Vickers Wellesley (RAF) Vickers Wellington (RAF) Armstrong Whitworth Whitley (RAF) Avro Anson (RAF...
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Force (RAF) at the outbreak of the Second World War. Alongside the Vickers Wellington and the Handley Page Hampden, the Whitley was developed during the...
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(1918–2001), American pool player known by the Wimpy nickname The Vickers Wellington bomber aircraft, commonly known as the "Wimpy" amongst service personnel...
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Rex Pierson (category Vickers people)
designer and chief designer at Vickers Limited later Vickers-Armstrongs Aircraft Ltd. He was responsible for the Vickers Vimy, a heavy bomber designed...
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the Vickers Vimy. Less than a year later, the squadron re-equipped with the Vickers Virginia heavy bomber, occasionally supplemented by Vickers Victoria...
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The 1946 Rabat Vickers Wellington crash was a military aviation accident that occurred in Malta on 5 April 1946 when a Vickers Wellington bomber crashed...
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Bouncing bomb (redirect from Vickers Type 464)
worked in the Drawing Office for Vickers-Armstrongs at the time, "Wallis was trying to do his ordinary job [for Vickers-Armstrongs] as well as all this...
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bulk of the bomber force was twin-engined medium bombers like the Vickers Wellington. While the number of heavy bombers in the RAF increased, greater tonnage...
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against bottom mines. During WWII, RAF Coastal Command used Vickers Wellington bombers Wellington DW.Mk I fitted with degaussing coils to trigger magnetic...
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Night-Time by Mark Haddon HMS Wellington, three Royal Navy ships HMNZS Wellington, two Royal New Zealand Navy ships Vickers Wellington, British medium bomber...
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such as the Armstrong Whitworth Whitley, Handley Page Hampden and Vickers Wellington. Performing its maiden flight on 25 July 1939, the Manchester entered...
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Aircraft in fiction (section Vickers Wellington)
a pilot and his crew of a Wellington bomber based at a fictional RAF station called "Hartley Magna". A Vickers Wellington features in the 1961 comedy...
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Mk. I, Handley Page Halifax Mk. II, V, and VIII, Vickers Warwick C Mk. I & III, and Vickers Wellington Mk. IC & IV) Allied Expeditionary Air Force Air...
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England. In mid-1941, he was posted to No. 75 Squadron, which operated Vickers Wellington bombers. He participated in his first few bombing missions as a co-pilot...
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Vickers Victoria Vickers Vildebeest Vickers Vincent Vickers Virginia Vickers Wellington Vickers Wellesley Westland Wallace Westland Wapiti Westland PV...
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platforms, and two natural springs. At 15:45 on 13 September 1943 a Vickers Wellington crashed on the hill. The flight was part of a cross-country and practice...
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Force (RAF) as a bomber base during the Second World War, operating Vickers Wellingtons, Avro Manchesters, and the Avro Lancaster heavy bombers. Post-war...
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No. 215 Squadron RAF which arrived on 10 September 1939 with the Vickers Wellington and the Avro Anson before leaving on 8 April 1940. The next unit to...
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The Vickers Wellington is a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber aircraft that was produced from 1936 to 1945 and used throughout World War II...
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