Vickers Aircraft

Vickers Monoplane No.6 0 Vickers Monoplane No.7 0 Vickers Monoplane No.8 0 read more ... Vickers Monoplane No.1 1911 Vickers Monoplane No.2 1912 On 19 November 1912, Vickers received a contract from the Admiralty for an experimental fighting ... read more ... Vickers E.F.B.1 1913 Vickers E.F.B.2 1913 Following the loss of the E.F.B.1, Vickers undertook major redesign of its gun carrier while ... read more ... In December 1913, a third Vickers Experimental Fighting Biplane, the E.F.B.3, made its debut. The ... read more ... Vickers E.F.B.3 1913 Vickers F.B.5 Gunbus 1914 Progressive changes introduced by successive E.F.B.3s led to the E.F.B.5 - the E.F.B.4 being a ... read more ... Vickers F.B.6 1914 Vickers F.B.9 1915 Dubbed unofficially the Streamline Gunbus, the F.B.9, which emerged towards the end of 1915, introduced ... read more ... On the outbreak of World War I, Vickers engaged R L Howard-Flanders to design a ... read more ... Vickers F.B.7 1915 Vickers E.S.1 1915 Early in 1915, Rex K Pierson was tasked with the redesign of the so-called Barnwell ... read more ... Although possessing a superficial resemblance to the F.B.7, the F.B.8, designed in the autumn of ... read more ... Vickers F.B.8 1915 Vickers F.B.14 1916 Tractor-engined biplane best suited for reconnaissance duties. Engines ranged on the small number of production ... read more ... Designed in 1916 by G H Challenger and flown for the first time in August ... read more ... Vickers F.B.19 1916 Vickers F.B.12 1916 A compact two-bay biplane of pusher type, the F.B.12 was designed for the 150hp Hart ... read more ... Conceived, like the F.B.12, to utilise the 150hp Hart engine, the F.B.16 was designed by ... read more ... Vickers F.B.16 1916 Vickers F.B.11 1916 Designed by Howard Flanders as an airship destroyer, for which purpose it had an elevated ... read more ... A two-seat fighter-reconnaissance aircraft, the F.B.24 was yet another Vickers aircraft originally designed for the ... read more ... Vickers F.B.24 1916 Vickers F.B.27 Vimy 1917 Design of the Vickers F.B.27 was initiated in 1917 to meet the requirement to provide ... read more ... Derived from the abortive F.B.23 design intended as a successor to the F.B.9, the F.B.25 ... read more ... Vickers F.B.25 1917 Vickers F.B.26 Vampire 1917 Curiously retrogressive in design when built in May 1917, the pusher fighter with boom-carried empennage ... read more ... Vickers Vimy Commercial 1919 Vickers Viking 1919 Vickers VIM 1919 Vickers Vernon 1921 Final derivative of the Vimy / Vimy Commercial was the Vickers Vernon bomber/transport used by ... read more ... Vickers Valentia 1921 Vickers Victoria 1922 The Victoria 22-troop transport was built between the Vernon and Valentia. Production for the RAF ... read more ... Designed to meet the requirements of Air Ministry Specification 1/21, the Vickers Virginia proved to ... read more ... Vickers Virginia 1922 Vickers 61 Vulcan 1922 In early 1921 design was initiated of the Vickers Vulcan transport, a biplane of 14.94m ... read more ... During 1918 Vickers designed a light amphibian with biplane wings and tail unit, its Consuta ... read more ... Vickers Vulture 1923 Vickers Vixen 1923 Vickers Viget 1923 Vickers Vagabond 1924 Vickers 94 Venture 1924 Vickers Vespa 1925 The Vickers Type 113 Vespa Mk I first flown in September 1925 was built as a ... read more ... Vickers Vanellus 1925 Vickers Vendace 1926 Built to the requirements of Air Ministry Specification 5A/24 for a floatplane trainer, the single ... read more ... Following the establishment in the UK on 8 June 1925 of Wibault Patents Limited as ... read more ... Vickers 121 Wibault Scout 1926 Vickers 123 1926 Believing, at the end of 1925, that the time was right for the development of ... read more ... After re-engining of the Type 123 with the 510hp Rolls-Royce F.XI 12-cylinder Vee-type water-cooled engine ... read more ... Vickers 141 1927 Vickers 131 Valiant 1927 One prototype flown on 27 June 1927. No production. read more ... Vickers Vivid 1927 Vickers Vildebeest 1928 The all-metal Vildebeest was adopted by the RAF as a standard torpedo-carrying and bombing biplane ... read more ... A one-off civil variant designated Type 72 Vanguard, accommodating 23 passengers and powered by two Napier ... read more ... Vickers Vanguard 1928 Vickers 125 Vireo 1928 The Wibault system of metal airframe construction, with which Vickers had gained experience in building ... read more ... The Vickers Type 134 Vellore Mk I was a large equal-span biplane intended as a freight ... read more ... Vickers Vellore 1928 Vickers 143 1929 Evolved from the Type 141 to meet a Bolivian requirement which was to result, in ... read more ... Effectively the seventh Type 143 airframe, the Type 177 was intended as a single-seat shipboard ... read more ... Vickers 177 1929 Vickers 150 / 195 / 225 (B.19/27) 1929 The first prototype flew on 1 October 1930 powered by 3 x 201kW Armstrong Siddeley ... read more ... Vickers Viastra 1930 Vickers 151 Jockey 1930 During the mid 'twenties, the Air Ministry accepted the philosophy that the primary concern of ... read more ... One prototype first flown on 12 January 1931. No production. read more ... Vickers 163 1931 Vickers 161 1931 In the mid 'twenties, the British Air Ministry found attractive the possibility of the 37mm ... read more ... The Vincent was a three-seat general-purpose version of the Vildebeest, designed essentially for tropical service ... read more ... Vickers Vincent 1932 Vickers 207 (M.1/30) 1933 One prototype, first flown 11 January 1933. No production. read more ... The Valentia was a development of the earlier Victoria troop-carrier, differing by having two 484kW ... read more ... Vickers Valentia 1934 Vickers G.4/31 1934 One prototype, first flown on 6 August 1934. No production. read more ... The only Type 212 Vellox flew on 23 January 1934 powered by two 447kW Bristol ... read more ... Vickers 212 Vellox 1934 Vickers Wellesley 1935 The Wellesley evolved from Vickers' design for a general-purpose day and night bomber and coastal-defence ... read more ... The Wellington, which served Bomber Command so well in the early years of World War ... read more ... Vickers Wellington 1936 Vickers 279 Venom 1936 Fundamentally a redesigned and improved Type 151 Jockey and, indeed, initially known as the Jockey ... read more ... The Warwick was a slightly enlarged version of the Wellington and employed the same geodetic ... read more ... Vickers 284 Warwick 1939 Vickers 432 1942 The final attempt by Vickers to develop a fighter for the RAF began in 1939 ... read more ... The Barnes Wallis geodetic construction, introduced on the Vickers Wellesley and used later on the ... read more ... Vickers Windsor 1943 Vickers Viking 1945 The Viking was a twin-engined 24-27-seat transport and was the first completely new post-World War ... read more ... The Valetta was a military transport aircraft, the prototype of which flew for the first ... read more ... Vickers Valetta 1947 Vickers Viscount 1948 During World War II the US had gained a considerable start in the design and ... read more ... While the first Nene-Lancastrian can be dubbed 'the world's first jet airliner' only in ... read more ... Vickers 618 Nene Viking 1948 Vickers Varsity 1949 The Varsity general-purpose aircrew trainer retained the general characteristics of the Valetta C.I, but had ... read more ... Last of the prototype and experimental jetliners built in Britain in the immediate postwar era, ... read more ... Vickers 663 Tay-Viscount 1950 Vickers Valiant 1951 As World War II came to an end, the strategic bombers which had served Britain ... read more ... The very considerable success of the Vickers Viscount in airline service was due to the ... read more ... Vickers Vanguard 1959