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Data from Vickers Aircraft since 1908 General characteristics Crew: two Length: 36 ft 5 in (11.10 m) Wingspan: 47 ft 6 in (14.48 m) Wing area: 290 sq ft (27 m 2) Empty weight: 1,000 lb (454 kg) Powerplant: 1 × R.E.P five-cylinder air-cooled fan-type engine, 60 hp (45 kW) Performance Maximum speed: 56 mph (90 km/h, 49 kn) Notes ^ Flight 15 April 1911, p.336. ^ Andrews and Morgan 1988, p. 1 ...
The first Vickers design using this construction was the Vireo and the third, the Viastra, used a blend of Wibault and Vickers construction techniques. [ 2 ] The Viastra was envisaged as a one or three-engined commercial aircraft capable of carrying ten passengers and designed with an eye to operations in countries with poor surface transport ...
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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, Surrey. It was one of two aircraft to be named after Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington , the other being the Vickers Wellington .
The Type 151 Jockey was a compact and rather angular, low cantilever wing monoplane, built using the Wibault-Vickers corrugated skinned all-metal method as used on the Vireo. The unstressed skin was riveted onto a largely duralumin structure, a few steel tubes forming highly stressed members.
The Vickers Type 253 was a single-engined two-seat biplane general-purpose military machine, built to a 1930 government specification. It won a production contract, but this was transferred to the same company's monoplane equivalent, the Wellesley .
Larry Vickers, a popular creator of YouTube gun videos, may get a prison sentence after he pleaded guilty in October to two federal crimes including a conspiracy to import illegal machine guns.
The R.E.P. 1 in 1907. The REP 1 was a single-seat tractor configuration monoplane powered by a 22 kW (30 hp) seven-cylinder two-row semi-radial engine [1] driving a four-bladed propeller with aluminium blades rivetted to steel tubes.