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Vickers Aircraft Company's first aircraft, a two-seat amphibious seaplane, is called The Wave. [5] The Wave has some unique features unavailable in other similar aircraft, [6] such as a bow thruster and substantially higher horsepower engine. [7] [8] [9]
Data from Vickers Aircraft Co Ltd General characteristics Crew: 1 Capacity: 2 Length: 24 ft 7 in (7.5 m) Wingspan: 30 ft 10 in (9.40 m) Height: 7 ft 6 in (2.29 m) Wing area: 149.3 sq ft (13.87 m 2) Empty weight: 928 lb (421 kg) useful load 650 lbs Gross weight: 1,850 lb (839 kg) Fuel capacity: 60 U.S. gallons (230 L; 50 imp gal) Powerplant: 1 × Rotax 915iS horizontally opposed turbocharged ...
Vickers F.B.5 1914, 224 built; Voisin III 1914 bomber, about 3200 built [1] Wight Pusher Seaplane 1914, 11 built; Breguet Bre.5 1915 2 seat military biplane, unk no. built; AD Scout 1915 interceptor, 4 built; AGO C.II 1915 reconnaissance biplane, 15 built; Airco DH.1 1915 biplane, 2 seat, 100 built, Airco DH.2 1915 biplane fighter, 453 built ...
Below is a detailed list of the ships and submarines built in Barrow-in-Furness, England by the Barrow Shipbuilding Company, Vickers-Armstrongs, Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering, BAE Systems Marine, BAE Systems Submarine Solutions or any other descendant companies. Whilst it is extensive it is incomplete as there are some commercial vessels ...
The Vickers 22 became the final type used by the Italian contestant. [32] Sometime after the film wrapped, the Vickers was sold to a buyer in New Zealand. It is believed to have flown once, at Wellington Airport in the hands of Keith Trillo, a test pilot involved in a number of aircraft certification programmes, and is now at the Southward Car ...
A pusher aircraft is a type of aircraft using propellers placed behind the engines and may be classified according to engine/propeller location and drive as well as the lifting surfaces layout (conventional or 3 surface, canard, joined wing, tailless and rotorcraft), Some aircraft have a Push-pull configuration with both tractor and pusher engines.
Those pictures were presented to Ben Lyon at Twentieth Century Fox, who transformed Norma Jean Baker into Marilyn Monroe. The image was sold in an auction at Henry Aldridge & Son for $4.6K dollars ...
The Supermarine S.6B is a British racing seaplane developed by R.J. Mitchell for the Supermarine company to take part in the Schneider Trophy competition of 1931. The S.6B marked the culmination of Mitchell's quest to "perfect the design of the racing seaplane" and represented the cutting edge of aerodynamic technology for the era.