The Vickers Windsor was a Second World War British four-engine heavy bomber, intended for high altitude flight. The Windsor was designed by Barnes Wallis...
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Wallis Simpson (redirect from Duchess of Windsor)
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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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Canadian submarine USS Windsor, two ships by this name serving during WWII Vickers Windsor, World War II British heavy bomber Windsor-class attack transport...
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Al-Fayed. Vickers, Hugo (2005). Elizabeth: The Queen Mother. Hutchinson. ISBN 978-1-4481-5072-4. OCLC 570250083. Sebba, pp. 274–277; Vickers, pp. 99–120;...
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torpedo/dive bomber Supermarine Spiteful (RAF) fighter Vickers Type 432 (RAF) high-altitude fighter Vickers Windsor (RAF) bomber Vought Chesapeake (FAA) dive bomber...
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designer at Vickers. Wallis had worked on the Vickers Wellesley and Vickers Wellington bombers and while working on the Vickers Windsor, he had also...
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with text by Hugo Vickers. Hodder & Stoughton. ISBN 978-1529330625. Roberts, Andrew; edited by Antonia Fraser (2000). The House of Windsor. London: Cassell...
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Princess Alice of Battenberg (category People from Windsor, Berkshire)
1969 Vickers, pp. 364–366 Clogg, pp. 188–189 Woodhouse, p. 293 Vickers, p. 392 Royal Burials in the Chapel since 1805, College of St George, Windsor Castle...
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cardboard and plywood replica of the walls of Windsor Castle, complete with imitation parapets and buttresses. Vickers, Hugo (2005). Elizabeth: The Queen Mother...
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Seafire Supermarine Spitfire Tsunami Racer Vickers F.7/41 Vickers Wellington Mk II and Mk VI Vickers Windsor Westland Welkin Avro Lancaster B I powered...
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later in the Second World War and post-war by Vickers-Armstrongs at Chester as well as at the Vickers Armstrong factory, Castle Bromwich, Birmingham...
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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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Hugo Ralph Vickers DL (born 12 November 1951) is an English writer and broadcaster. The son of Ralph Cecil Vickers, M.C., a stockbroker, senior partner...
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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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656 Bulgaria, China, Czechoslovakia, Finland Vickers Vildebeest United Kingdom 1933 406 New Zealand Vickers Wellesley United Kingdom 1937 177 VL Kotka Finland...
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Thompson tail turret Vickers Virginia (introduced 1924) – – heavy bomber; Lewis guns on a Scarff ring in the extreme tail Vickers Wellington- (introduced...
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Consolidated B-32 Dominator Heinkel He 277 Messerschmitt Me 264 Tupolev Tu-4 Vickers Windsor Related lists List of aircraft of the Royal Air Force Using the Merlin...
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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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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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Metropolitan-Vickers, then merging the remaining bulk of the original business with Armstrong Whitworth to form Vickers-Armstrongs. The Vickers name resurfaced...
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Duchess Of Windsor: The Uncommon Life of Wallis Simpson. Kensington Publishing Corp., 2011. ISBN 9780806535210. Behind Closed Doors, Hugo Vickers, Penguin...
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842 Vickers Wellesley UK Reconnaissance bomber 1935 Operational 177 Vickers Wellington UK Medium bomber 1936 Operational 11,464 Vickers Windsor UK Heavy...
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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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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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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 Vanguard was a short/medium-range turboprop airliner designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs. The Vanguard...
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Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother (redirect from Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Windsor)
2019 Vickers, p. 495 Queen Mother hurt in minor fall, BBC, 13 February 2002, retrieved 1 May 2009 Shawcross, p. 930; Vickers, pp. 497–498 Vickers, pp....
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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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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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