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	Vickers Valiant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vickers also considered an air transport version of the Valiant, with a low-mounted wing, wingspan increased to 42.7 m (140 ft) from 34.8 m (114 ft 4 in), fuselage lengthened to 44.5 m (146 ft), and uprated engines.
		A Valiant B.1 of No 49 Squadron was the first RAF aircraft to drop a British operational atomic bomb when it performed a test drop of a down-rated Blue Danube weapon on Maralinga, South Australia, on 11 October 1956.
		The Valiant was Vickers last military aircraft, it was followed by the Vanguard, a passenger turboprop designed in 1959 and flying into the 1990s, and the Vickers VC-10, a jet passenger craft from 1962, though the latter did act as military transport for the RAF.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vickers_Valiant (3217 words)

	Vickers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd became part of the nationalised British Shipbuilders but was the first to return to the private sector.
		Vickers Sons and Maxim began work on a rigid airship for the British Admiralty in mid 1909 in a dock at Walney Island, Cumbria, sadly it disintegrated upon its second trip out of a floating hangar on the evening of 23 September 1911.
		Vickers was a pioneer in producing airliners, early examples being converted from Vimy bombers, and went on to manufacture the piston-engined Vickers VC.1 Viking airliner and Varsity military crew trainer, the Viscount and Vanguard turboprop airliners, and the stylish though noisy VC-10 jet airliner, which remains in RAF service as an aerial refuelling tanker.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vickers (1108 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Aviation (V) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Vickers 266 was armed with a 0.303 inch calibre Vickers Mk II fixed forward-firing machine-gun in the port side of the forward fuselage with synchronisation equipment to allow it to fire through the propeller disc, and one 0.303 inch calibre Lewis Gun Mk IIIA trainable rearward-firing machine-gun in the rear cockpit.
		The Vickers Valetta was a modification of the Vickers Viking transport and general purpose aircraft and was powered by two Bristol Hercules Mk 230 radial piston engines providing a top speed of 415 kmh and a range of 850 km depending upon load.
		The Vickers Valiant was a British four-jet medium bomber aircraft first flown in 1951 and in service with the RAF from 1954 until the 1960's.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /IV.HTM (2707 words)

	Vickers Valiant
		The initial Valiant jet bomber prototype was lost due to an in-flight engine fire in January 1952, all the crew escaping safely except for the copilot, who struck the tail after ejecting and was killed.
		Vickers also considered a air transport version of the Valiant, with a low mounted wing, wingspan increased to 42.7 m (140 ft) from 34.8 m (114 ft 4 in), fuselage lengthened to 44.5 m (146 ft), and uprated engines.
		A Valiant B.1 of 49 Squadron was the first RAF aircraft to drop a British operational atomic bomb when it performed a test drop of a down-rated Blue Danube weapon on Maralinga, South Australia, on 11 October 1956.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/vickers_valiant (3202 words)

	Valiant Computer Austin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Valiant himself is a Nordic prince (from the faraway Thule - apparently, it is located somewhere near the city Trondheim on the Norwegian west coast).
		The 1960–1962 Valiant and Lancer rode on a 106.5 in (2705 mm) wheelbase.
		The Valiant was mildly refreshed for 1963, with a ½ in (12.7 mm) shorter 106 in (2692 mm) wheelbase.
	www.wwwtln.com /finance/188/valiant-computer-austin.html (1426 words)

	The Vickers Valiant
		The initial Valiant jet bomber prototype was lost due to an in-flight engine fire in January 1952, all the crew escaping safely except for the co-pilot, who struck the tail after ejecting and was killed.
		Originally, Valiants were finished in silver, but once equipped with nuclear weapons they were painted in "anti-flash" white to reflect the glare of a nuclear blast.
		A Valiant B.1 of 49 Squadron was the first RAF aircraft to drop a British operational atomic bomb, performing a test drop of a downrated "Blue Danube" weapon on Maralinga, South Australia, on 11 October 1956.
	www.vectorsite.net /avval.html (4605 words)

	VICKERS VALIANT - HISTORY
		Vickers had a design that fell short of satisifying this specification and when Avro and Handley Page made submissions that satisfied it, the Vickers project looked doomed to be a paper aeroplane only.
		Accordingly, Valiants of 138, 148, 207 and 214 squadrons were deployed to RAF Luqa in Malta and the first Valiant attacks against Egyptian airfields began on 31st October.
		Once BAC had finished with their four Valiants, they were stored for a while and then finally scrapped, though not before one of them, XD816, had taken part in the flypast on the 29th of April 1968 to mark the disbandment of RAF Bomber Command (which was now becoming Strike Command).
	www.thunder-and-lightnings.co.uk /valiant/history.html (3141 words)

	Silver-wings.co.uk: Vickers Valiant B1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Vickers Valiant B1 The British government after the second world war was desperate to acquire an effective nuclear deterrent.
		After Gary Power's was shot down in 1960 the "V Force" was switched to low level, which was the death knell for the Valiant, as the strains of low level flying resulted in cracking of the rear wing spars of the Valiant fleet, all Valiants were grounded in 1965 and scrapped soon after.
		The subject of this model, (XD818) was the Valiant which delivered the first British thermonuclear bomb and is the only surviving Valiant airframe which is displayed at the RAF museum at Hendon.
	freespace.virgin.net /pbratt.home/Valiant_B1_Frame.htm (313 words)

	Vickers Valiant B1 airplane pictures & aircraft photos - RAF Museums
		The Valiant was the first of Bomber Command's V class aircraft and established Britain's air-borne nuclear deterrent force before pioneering operational in-flight refuelling in the Royal Air Force.
		Thankfully the aircraft were never used for their primary role, but Valiants, armed with conventional bombs, attacked Egyptian airfields during the Suez crisis in 1956.
		In January 1965, all Valiants were prematurely scrapped after metal fatigue was found in the wings of a few aircraft.
	www.rafmuseum.org.uk /vickers-valiant-b1.htm (199 words)

	Vickers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The Vickers corporation, founded as the Vickers Company in 1828, was a British manufacturer, primarily of military equipment.
		Vickers was acquired by Rolls-Royce plc in 1999 for £576m ($1.03Bn.) The marine propulsion portfolio of Vickers made it particularly suited to Rolls-Royce, transforming the group into the global leader in marine power systems.
		In 2002 Vickers Defence Systems (which excluded the marine business) was bought by Alvis plc, and became a subsidiary, Alvis Vickers Ltd. In March 2004 the board of Alvis plc approved a £309m takeover bid by a direct competitor in the field of military vehicles, the American General Dynamics.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/V/Vickers.htm (1064 words)

	The Vickers Valiant
		Edwards and his team had considered use of the Valiant for photo-reconnaissance from the start, and this particular batch of aircraft could accommodate a removeable "crate" in the bombbay, carrying up to eight narrow-view / high resolution cameras and four survey cameras.
		As the modern military expression has it: "Train as you fight, fight as you train." The Valiant force was not only new and inexperienced, it had also been focused on the nuclear strike mission, and personnel were therefore lacking in training and procedures for carrying out conventional bombing missions.
		In fact, some aviation observers suggest that if the Valiant B.2 had been adopted the Victor and Vulcan would have been redundant, and Britain could have had every bit as effective a V-bomber force at lower cost though this isn't an idea that would necessarily please V-bomber enthusiasts.
	www.faqs.org /docs/air/avval.html (4182 words)

	RAF Bomber Command (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The next to enter service was the Vickers Valiant, the first of the V bombers.
		The Valiant was the first bomber used as a tanker operationally.
		The withdrawal of the Valiant from service caused the conversion of many of the Victors to tankers to be greatly speeded up.
	www.infothis.com /find/RAF_Bomber_Command (3471 words)

	The Royal Air Force - History Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		But in 1947, the two designs which were ultimately to be ordered into production for the RAF were unveiled: the Avro 698, which was to become the Vulcan, and the Handley Page HP80, which developed into the Victor.
		Vickers also proposed an aircraft capable of meeting the higher requirement but this was initially rejected.
		After some further study was reinstated into the competition as it met all the requirements except that of range.
	www.raf.mod.uk /history/val1.html (438 words)

	AeroFax Valiant
		Despite being the first of “V-bombers,” the Valiant was built in smaller numbers than the more famous Victor and Vulcan, and also served for the shortest time - only some 12 years - due to serious structural fatigue.
		However, the Valiant was the only British bomber to drop atomic weapons, and served in action during the Suez Crisis in 1956.
		Various appendices cover Valiant unit histories, individual aircraft histories, proposed civilian variants, data tables and 16 pages of schematic drawings that would be of great use to the modeler if there were a currently available kit of the Valiant.
	www.ipmsusa.org /Reviews/Archive/Books/Aircraft/Aerofax_Valiant/Aerofax_Valiant.htm (356 words)

	Vickers & BAC
		As far back as 1919 Vickers was already famous for the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic Ocean when Alcock and Brown flew their converted Vickers Vimy bomber from Newfoundland to a crash landing in an Irish bog.
		Vickers Ltd. was known as a shipbuilder, but early in the 20th century they became involved in aviation, as early as 1908 the Admiralty ordered the R.1 airship from Vickers.
		When Vickers acquired Supermarine, this successful British Schneider Cup design was part of the deal, but in the memory of many it will probably remain the Supermarine S.6B that won the Schneider Trophy for good.
	www.vc10.net /History/vc10_origins.html (1338 words)

	Vickers Valiant
		Vickers Valiant v-bomber was used during the Suez crisis with conventional payload.
		The Vickers Valiant was the first four-jet bomber of Britain's Cold War nuclear strike V-Force whose Valiants, Victors and Vulcans, painted in distinctive anti-flash white, were a familiar sight in the 1950s and 60s.
		A Valiant is portrayed taking off with fl smoke pouring from its four Avon engines against a backdrop of a typical V-Force dispersal airfield.
	www.aviationprints.co.uk /valiant.htm (632 words)

	Matchbox 1/72 Matchbox H.P. Victor K2
		In 1957 trials were conducted at 214 squadron at RAF Marham into in-flight refuelling using a converted Vickers Valiant as the tanker and a variety of aircraft as the receivers.
		Unlike the Valiant that could stream just one refuelling hose from its Hose Drum Unit (HDU), the Victor could stream three hoses — she became to be known as the “Triple Niple.” BUT — she was still based on the old B.1 with all that that entailed.
		The DH Comet, the Avro Vulcan and the Vickers Valiant are examples of buried engines and in every case the ducting forms a natural, smooth, passageway for the air.
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/portland/971/Reviews/60s/victor-k2_match.htm (8230 words)

	No. 207 Squadron - United Kingdom Nuclear Forces
		The Marham Vickers Valiant years began in 1956 with the presentation of the Standard by HM The Queen.
		In May 1964, a 207 Valiant inexplicably crashed at night, shortly after metal fatigue was found to be the cause of a broken main spar in another Valiant.
		Re-equipping with Vickers Wellesleys in 1937, 207 learned new techniques of navigation and bombing, and of maintaining aircraft with modern features such as a retractable undercarriage, flaps and a variable pitch airscrew.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/uk/207sqn.htm (439 words)

	Valiant - United Kingdom Nuclear Forces
		The first of the new V-Bombers, the Vickers Valiant, entered service with No. 138 Sqn at RAF Gaydon, Warwickshire in January 1955.
		During the Suez Crisis Valiants of 138, 148, 207 and 214 squadrons were deployed to RAF Luqa in Malta and the first Valiant attacks against Egyptian airfields began on 31 October 1956.
		In 1964 the entire Valiant fleet was retired, with the OCU being first to disband and the last Valiant squadron, 49 Squadron, being disbanded in January 1965.
	www.globalsecurity.org /wmd/world/uk/valiant.htm (486 words)

	Valiant - United Kingdom Nuclear Forces (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The first of the RAF's V-class bombers, the Valiant flew for the first time on 18 May 1951 and entered service with No. 138 Squadron early in 1955.
		Three prototypes and 104 production Valiants were built, the last of these being completed and flying on August 27, 1957.
		VICKERS VALIANT a comprehensive resource from Thunder and Lightning
	www.fas.org /nuke/guide/uk/bomber/valiant.htm (107 words)

	Vickers Valiant Mk1 photo'd South Africa / Table Mountain behind (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		"..photograph of Vickers valiant B(PR)K WZ 399 of 543 Squadron fm Wyton, taken during detachment in Cape Town.
		I was the senior Navigator(plotter) in Flt Lt Harry Clerbaut, our Pilot and Captain who was A1 qualified and a QFI (Qualified Flying Instructor).
		My time on 543 was short lived due to Valiant WZ 399 crashing after take off (read about this crash here) which put me in hospital and then recoup at Headley Court followed with ground tour.
	www.classic-aircraft.oldclassiccar.co.uk /valiant.htm (222 words)

	Articles - Brooklands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		After the war, the circuit was in poor condition and was sold to Vickers-Armstrongs in 1946 for continued use as an aircraft factory.
		In 1951, a section of the race track's Byfleet Banking was removed to allow Vickers Valiant V-bombers to be flown out to Wisley.
		The Vickers factory became part of the new British Aircraft Corporation in 1960 and went on to design and build the BAC TSR2, One-Eleven and Concorde.
	www.lastring.com /articles/Brooklands (706 words)

	V bomber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		The bombers were the Valiantss (first flew 1951), Victorss (first flew 1952) and Vulcanss (first flew 1952).
		The RAF Bomber Command ended World War II with a policy of using heavy four-piston-engined bombers for massed raids, and remained committed to this policy in the immediate postwar period, adopting the Avro Lincoln, an updated version of the WW2 Lancaster, as their standard bomber.
		This page is (in part) based on the "The Vickers Valiant" version 1.1, by Greg Goebel.
	www.theezine.net /v/v-bomber.html (622 words)

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