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    The Vickers Vanguard was a short/medium-range turboprop airliner designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs. The Vanguard...
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  • Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth...
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  • strike, leading to increased air freight business. On 10 October, Vickers Vanguard G-AXNT was leased from Air Holdings. DC-4 G-ASEN was sold to Wenela...
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    The Vickers Viscount is a British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 by Vickers-Armstrongs. A design requirement from the Brabazon Committee...
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  • Look up vanguard in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The vanguard is the leading part of an advancing military formation. Vanguard may also refer to: Chengdu...
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    mid to late 1950s by Rolls-Royce Limited to a requirement for the Vickers Vanguard airliner. It was first test flown during 1956 in the nose of a modified...
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    The Vickers VC10 is a mid-sized, narrow-body long-range British jet airliner designed and built by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd and first flown at...
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    informed Vickers of its requirement for an aircraft with 10% lower costs per seat-mile than the 800 series Viscount. This provided the impetus for Vickers to...
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    The Vickers Vanguard was a 1920s British airliner developed by Vickers Limited from the Victoria. Developed from the earlier Victoria with the introduction...
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    is based at Faslane, HMNB Clyde, Argyll, Scotland. Vanguard was built at Barrow-in-Furness by Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd, later BAE Systems...
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