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Built to the requirements of Air Ministry Specification 5A/24 for a floatplane trainer, the single Vickers Type 120 Vendace Mk I was a
fairly conventional folding wing equal-span biplane with tandem open cockpits, and was powered by a 205kW Rolls-Royce Falcon III engine. Tested officially in both landplane and floatplane form, it was retained for experimental purposes but no production order followed. One Type 133 Vendace Mk II with a 224kW ADC Nimbus engine was built in 1928 as a private venture and sold for aerial survey use in South America. The unusual landing gear layout of the Vickers Vendace I was the result of the ultimate objective of using the type on floats. The entire fuel supply was contained in the two streamlined tanks above the upper-wing centre-section. In landplane form the Vendace I spanned 13.59m, weighed a maximum of 1576kg and had a top speed of 188km/h.
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| MODEL | Vendace I (land version) |
| WEIGHTS |
| Take-off weight | 1576 kg | 3475 lb |
| DIMENSIONS |
| Wingspan | 13.59 m | 44 ft 7 in |
| PERFORMANCE |
| Max. speed | 188 km/h | 117 mph |
| Jorge cornejo, coco_cornejo(@)yahoo.com, 25.10.2007 quisiera tener mas informaci{on con respecto a este modelo, ya que estuvo en la guerra del chaco entre Bolivia y Paraguay en 1932 a 1935 |
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