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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 Vickers Type 559 was a supersonic interceptor aircraft design by the British aircraft company Vickers-Armstrongs and was their submission for Operational Requirement F.155 in 1955. It was not accepted for further consideration; the most valued submissions being from Armstrong Whitworth and Fairey , however the F.155 requirement was dropped ...
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 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 N mounted a single unsynchronized forward-firing 7.9 mm Hotchkiss machine gun which used the deflector wedges first used on the Morane-Saulnier Type L, in order to fire through the propeller arc. The later I and V types used a .303-in Vickers machine gun.
Types using this gear (including the B.E.12, the R.E.8 and the Vickers F.B.19) all had the gun mounted on the port side of the fuselage. The attempt to use the gear for synchronising a centrally mounted gun on the Bristol Scout failed and tests, which continued at least until May 1916, resulted in the abandonment of the idea and no Vickers ...
The Bristol Bombay was built to Air Ministry Specification C.26/31 which called for a monoplane bomber ... with a Vickers K machine gun. Eight 250-pound (110 kg ...
The Air Ministry paid Vickers for a single prototype; its competitors were the Blackburn M.1/30 and the Handley Page H.P.46. [1] Like Blackburn, Vickers chose the 825 hp (615 kW) Rolls-Royce H10 engine, later called the Buzzard IIIMS, a liquid cooled V-12 to power their aircraft. The Type 207 was a single-bay biplane, without sweep or stagger ...