with 55 production aircraft based on the Vickers Vimy bomber. The Vimy and its derivatives feature a gross takeoff weight of approximately 12,500 pounds — light enough that the largest aircraft ...

The Vickers Vimy was designed as a long-range bomber and was first flown in 1917 but was delivered just too late to see operational use in WW1. The type remained in front line service until the ...

Followed categories will be added to My News. That was November 1919, when brothers Ross and Keith Smith in their Vickers Vimy bomber won the then £10,000 purse (around $1.3m AUD today ...

The centenary of the 1919 England to Australia Air Race provides a chance to remember this largely forgotten chapter of aviation history and honour the courageous men who pioneered modern ...