Vickers Vanguard

1928

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Vickers Vanguard

A one-off civil variant designated Type 72 Vanguard, accommodating 23 passengers and powered by two Napier Lion engines (later 485kW Rolls-Royce Condor III engines as the Type 103 Vanguard) entered service with Imperial Airways in May 1928. It was destroyed in an accident in late 1928 when being tested after modification of the tail unit as the Type 170 Vanguard.

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Type 103 VanguardA three-view drawing of Type 103 Vanguard (700 x 714)

Specification 
 MODELType 103 Vanguard
 PASSENGERS23
 ENGINE2 x Rolls-Royce Condor III, 485

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chris scott, e-mail, 11.06.2008 22:55

Iquote from wonders of world aviation pub 1938."at the Hendon air display of 1925 Another striking comercial type onview was the big twin engined Vanguard" [ the first was a D.H.54]

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