• called a wing-controlled aerodyne. Wallis named the project Wild Goose. His employer Vickers was not able to sponsor such a large-scale project, so the...
    5 KB (576 words) - 22:21, 2 July 2020
  • Thumbnail for Variable-sweep wing
    to maximise the economy of high-speed flight. His first study was the Wild Goose project. Subsequently, Barnes devised the Swallow, a blended wing tailless...
    42 KB (4,719 words) - 12:13, 26 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vickers Swallow
    The Vickers Swallow was a supersonic aircraft project headed by Barnes Wallis, working at the British aircraft company Vickers-Armstrongs. It was a wing...
    6 KB (777 words) - 21:47, 31 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Barnes Wallis
    first working on airships and later aeroplanes. He joined Vickers – later part of Vickers-Armstrongs and then part of the British Aircraft Corporation...
    36 KB (4,121 words) - 12:54, 20 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown
    skills, Alcock approached the Vickers engineering and aviation firm at Weybridge, who had considered entering their Vickers Vimy IV twin-engined bomber...
    33 KB (3,611 words) - 23:59, 7 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bush plane
    (1928) Vickers Viking (1919) Waco 10 (1927) Waco Standard Cabin series (1931) Waco AQC-6/Waco ZQC-6 Freighter (1936) Westland Limousine (1919) Wild DoubleEnder...
    12 KB (1,414 words) - 14:41, 1 February 2024
  • Air Colombia Colombia Commenced operations on May 25, 2012 VSB Vickers Limited VICKERS United Kingdom VSN Vision Airways Corporation VISION Canada VSO...
    3 KB (784 words) - 00:36, 18 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Holy Spirit in Christianity
    Celtic Christians depicted the Holy Spirit as a goose called Ah Geadh-Glas, which means wild goose. A goose was chosen rather than the traditional dove because...
    64 KB (7,384 words) - 08:45, 27 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of largest birds
    largest species of goose is the Canada goose (Branta canadensis), more specifically the subspecies known as the giant Canada goose (Branta canadensis...
    83 KB (8,717 words) - 17:08, 1 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Leslie Caron
    nominations, Guns of Darkness (1962), The L-Shaped Room (1962), Father Goose (1964) and A Very Special Favor (1965). For her role as a single pregnant...
    31 KB (2,535 words) - 04:20, 17 September 2024