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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 was developed during the mid-to-late 1950s in response to a specification issued by British European Airways (BEA) for a 100-seat airliner; Vickers decided to design such an airliner as a follow-up to the existing Viscount series, the ...
British European Airways Vickers Viscount 802 at London Heathrow Airport in 1964: Behind it is a BEA Hawker Siddeley Trident and on the right a BEA Vickers Vanguard. Type 630 First prototype, with short fuselage (74 ft 6 in (22.71 m), accommodating 32 passengers and powered by four 1,380 ehp (1,032 kW) Rolls-Royce Dart R.Da Mk 501 engines. [79]
Developed from the earlier Victoria with the introduction of a wider fuselage, the Vanguard was a 22-passenger twin-engined biplane. Originally built for the Air Ministry as the Type 62 the aircraft powered by two 450 hp Napier Lion engines first flew on 18 July 1923. [1]
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 Brooklands, Surrey, in 1962. The VC10 is often compared to the larger Soviet Ilyushin Il-62 , the two types being the only airliners to use a rear-engined quad layout, while the smaller business ...
V. Vickers V-1000; Vickers Vagabond; Vickers Valentia; Vickers Valetta; Vickers Valiant; Vickers Valparaiso; Vickers Vampire; Vickers Type 170 Vanguard; Vickers Vanguard
British European Airways Flight 706 (BE706/BEA706) was a scheduled international passenger flight from London, England to Salzburg, Austria.On 2 October 1971, whilst en route at 19,000 feet (5,791 m), [1] the Vickers Vanguard the pressure bulkhead at the rear of the cabin failed.
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In the foreground a Vickers Viscount 802, right background a Vickers Vanguard, left background a Hawker Siddeley Trident 1C (note the red port wing of the aircraft in the foreground). From the late-1950s to the late-1960s, BEA's aircraft wore its red, black and white livery, which was uniformly applied to the entire fleet from September 1959 ...