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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 ...
Pages in category "Vickers aircraft" The following 86 pages are in this category, out of 86 total. ... Vickers R.E.P. Type Monoplane; R80 (airship) T. Vickers Swallow ...
The Vickers R.E.P. Type Monoplane was based upon his designs, and marked the beginning of aircraft production at the later Vickers Limited. In 1912 he introduced the REP Type N and in 1914 the REP Parasol monoplane. The wing structure of the R.E.P Type D Monoplane, 1911.
1908 Esnault-Pelterie REP 2 monoplane; 1908 Etrich-Wels Tailless parasol [10] ... 1911 Vickers No.1 monoplane; 1911 Vickers No.2-V monoplane; 1911 Vinet B monoplane;
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 .
In January 1915, the two units merged and were re-equipped with Caudron G.3s, but continued to operate the REP Type N at least as late as March. [ 2 ] The Type N also formed the backbone of the Ottoman Air Service in 1912, and these machines were used operationally during the First and Second Balkan War in 1912–13. [ 2 ]
Developed from the earlier Wib.3 the Wibault 7 was a C.I category single-seat high-wing braced parasol monoplane fighter powered by a 480 hp (360 kW) Gnome-Rhone 9Ad radial engine. The main difference from earlier aircraft was the use of an all-metal construction system which was patented by Wibault.
Immediately upon his return from Cocos Island, Bickerton volunteered for the Australasian Antarctic Expedition led by Dr Douglas Mawson.Mawson had determined to take a Vicker's REP monoplane to undertake survey work and Bickerton was appointed as mechanical engineer with responsibility for the maintenance of this, the first powered aircraft in Antarctica.