Vickers VC.1 Viking
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vickers-vc-1-viking-185-10587543
title:
Vickers VC.1 Viking
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The Vickers VC.1 Viking is a British twin-engine short-range airliner derived from the Vickers Wellington bomber and built by Vickers-Armstrongs Limited at Brooklands near Weybridge in Surrey. After the Second World War, the Viking was an important airliner with British airlines, pending the development of turboprop aircraft like the Viscount. An experimental airframe was fitted with Rolls-Royce Nene turbojets and first flown in 1948 as the world's first pure jet transport aircraft. Military dev
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British airliner with 2 piston engines, 1945
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_VC.1_Viking
date created:
2004-11-09T17:53:53Z
date modified:
2024-09-08T02:42:17Z
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