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    Royal Flying Corps (RFC), the Vimy was designed by Rex Pierson, Vickers' chief designer. Only a handful of Vickers Vimy aircraft had entered service by...
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    non-stop transatlantic flight. They flew a modified First World War Vickers Vimy bomber from St. John's, Newfoundland, to Clifden, County Galway, Ireland...
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    Aerodrome to Darwin via Singapore and Batavia on 10 December 1919. Their Vickers Vimy aircraft, affectionately known as "God 'Elp All Of Us", is preserved...
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    The Vickers Virginia was a biplane heavy bomber of the British Royal Air Force, developed from the Vickers Vimy. Work on the Virginia was started in 1920...
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    RAF. The Vernon was a development of the Vickers Vimy Commercial, a passenger variant of the famous Vickers Vimy bomber, and was powered by twin Napier...
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    co-pilot, and mechanics James Bennett and Wally Shiers, in a modified Vickers Vimy bomber. In early 1919, the Commonwealth Government of Australia offered...
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    Swan Van Berkel W-B Vickers F.B.11 Vickers Valparaiso Vickers Vernon Vickers Viking Vickers Vulcan Vickers Vulture Vickers Vimy Wight Converted Seaplane...
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    culminated in the Vickers F.B.26 Vampire of 1917–18, but the F.B.5 remained their only significant production aircraft until the Vickers Vimy bomber, which...
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  • Rex Pierson (category Vickers people)
    designer and chief designer at Vickers Limited later Vickers-Armstrongs Aircraft Ltd. He was responsible for the Vickers Vimy, a heavy bomber designed during...
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