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	Vickers - Knowmore
		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.
	www.knowmore.org /index.php/Vickers (1058 words)

	Vickers Wellesley - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Vickers Wellesley was a 1930s light bomber built by Vickers-Armstrong Ltd for the Royal Air Force.
		The Vickers Type 253 (using a radical geodetic construction that was derived from that used by Barnes Wallis in the airship R100), the Fairey G.4/31 and the Parnall G.4/31 offerings were tested against the specification.
		While the Wellesley was not a significant combat aircraft, the design principles that were tested in its construction were put to good use with the Wellington medium bomber that became one of the main types of RAF Bomber Command in the early years of the European war.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vickers_Wellesley (379 words)

	Vickers Armstrong Wellesley MkI
		History: The Wellesley II is a slightly modified version of the MkI which was first produced in 1935 as the O.9 to specification G4/31, and it was built in some numbers for the Expansion Scheme.
		The Wellesley II differs from the MkI in having an extended cockpit covering extending from the pilot's cockpit to a point just forward of the rear cockpit incorporating the navigator's position which was formerly lighted only by small side panels.
		The squadron moved to the Middle East in December 1941 and began anti-submarine patrols in April 1942, with Beauforts beginning to arrive in July, although the last Wellesley was not retired until March 1943.
	www.pavaservices.com /cfs/Wellesley.htm (863 words)

	RCAF.com : The Aircraft : Vickers WELLESLEY
		The Vickers Wellesley was the first of the Vickers designs to employ the unique geodetic construction of famed designer, Barnes Wallis.
		Unusually, the payload was intended to be carried in underwing panniers to preserve the integrity of the fuselage construction.
		The Wellesley was a successful pre-war design and the type was used by the RAF's Long Range Development Flight in setting a 1938 world long distance record flying from Egypt to Australia.
	www.rcaf.com /aircraft/bombers/wellesley/index.php?name=wellesley (315 words)

	Fourays - The Australian Army Aviation Association Inc
		Vickers had recently become interested in aviation, particularly lighter than air craft and were working on rigid airship designs for the Royal Navy.
		The original concept was proposed by co-designer, H B Pratt in a document called "Commercial Airships", however Vickers decided to redesign the R80 as a commercial proposition in 1919 when the ship was half completed and its military use was in doubt.
		In 1934 this was applied by the Vickers design team to the Wellesley bomber, a single engine aircraft with an immense high aspect ratio wingspan, that was capable of flying long distances at high altitudes.
	www.fourays.org /features_2005/great_combat_aircraft/lancaster/lancaster_2.htm (1808 words)

	Wellesley In The News
		Wellesley is one of only five colleges and universities at which the rate for fl students was higher than white students (94%-91%).
		Elana Altman, recently accepted to Wellesley through early decision, defends her right to "senioritis." She is editor-in-chief of FreshAngles.com at the Bergen County Academies and is active in the Junior State of American and American Civil Liberties Union chapters at her school.
		Her daughter Alia is a junior at Wellesley College, for example, thanks to a scholarship she earned and is on break from college teaching English in southeast Asia.
	www.wellesley.edu /PublicAffairs/InTheNews/inthenews.html (11701 words)

	1/48 Sanger Vickers Wellesley by Richard Eglen
		The Wellesley was the first successful bomber utilizing the Barnes Wallis geodetic construction method.
		Although the first Vickers aircraft using this approach was the Vickers Type 207, Air Ministry specification G.4/31, required a general purpose aircraft for the RAF to employ overseas.
		In the case of the Wellesley, interior shots are rare.
	www.aircraftresourcecenter.com /Fea1/501-600/Fea557_Wellesley_Eglen/fea557.htm (1286 words)

	simMarket: ICARUS GOLDEN AGE - VICKERS WELLESLEY
		The Wellesley was the first successful bomber utilizing the Barnes Wallis geodetic construction method.
		In the Second World War the Wellesley formed an advanced strike force in the Middle East with 14, 47 and 223 Sqdns - and on June 1940 bombed the Eritean capital, Asmara.
		SAAF units flying the Wellesley continued around Gondar, culminating with an attack of aircraft including SAAF Mohawks, Hartebeest and Ju 86S, together with Wellesleys.
	secure.simmarket.com /product_info.php?products_id=802 (515 words)

	Brooklands - The Birthplace of British Motorsport and Aviation
		It may be of interest to aviation enthusiasts to learn that work on a replica Vickers Wellesley bomb pannier is to be commenced in France in early 2004.
		The Wellesley was a Brooklands built per-war bomber generally remembered for its use in RAF long distance flights.
		Items relating to the Wellesley are rare so this will be an interesting piece concerning one of the forgotten aircraft of the Royal Air Force.
	www.brooklandsmuseum.com /forum_thread.cfm?threadId=621&forumID=12&confID=1 (458 words)

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	Barnes Wallis Summary
		He worked for Vickers and its successor companies (including British Aircraft Corporation) from 1913 until his retirement in 1971.
		Wallis's pre-war aircraft designs included the Vickers Wellesley and the Vickers Wellington, both also employing a geodesic design in the fuselage and wing structure.
		The latter was one of the most robust airframes ever developed, and pictures of its skeleton largely shot away, but still sound enough to bring its crew home safely, still astonish today.
	www.bookrags.com /Barnes_Wallis (1412 words)

	Wellington Bomber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Vickers Wellington was a twin-engine, medium bomber designed in the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Surrey by R.K.Pierson.
		Popularly known as the "Wimpey", it was widely used in the first two years of World War II before being replaced as a bomber by much larger four-engine designs like th Avro Lancaster.
		The Wellington used a unique geodetic construction designed by the famous Barnes Wallis for airships and used to to build the Vickers Wellesley bomber.
	www.divetheworld.com /Diving/warbirds/Wellington/index.htm (189 words)

	simFlight.com - Icarus Releases Vickers Wellesley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Wellesley was the first bomber to apply a geodetic construction.
		It was a clean monoplane with a very large wingspan, and bombs were carried in streamlined boxes underneath the wings.
		Although the Wellesley was basically obsolete by the outbreak of WWII, some did see combat in the Mid-East.
	www.simflight.com /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=3405 (132 words)

	Need plan or good 3-view of Vickers Wellesley - RC Groups
		I would like to try to do a F3 Vickers Wellesley slow/park flyer that will run on a DXA.
		I'd go up to a 280 but I made the mistake of ordering my 280s from Todd's models and they didn't come with any connectors at all.
		By the outbreak of World War II, Wellesley's had been replaced in RAF's Bomber Command by twin-engined bombers such as Hampdens, Whitleys and Wellingtons.
	www.rcgroups.com /forums/showthread.php?t=58512 (825 words)

	uboat.net - Fighting the U-boats - Aircraft
		This method had proven its value in the earlier Wellesley long-range bomber.
		They had 1050hp Bristol Pegasus XVIII engines, Vickers gun turrets in the nose and tail, and a retractable Nash and Thompson belly turret.
		In 1939 deliveries of the Mk.IA began, which had powered Nash and Thompson turrets instead of the Vickers units.
	uboat.net /allies/aircraft/wellington.htm (1029 words)

	September 26 - Today in Science History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Sir Barnes (Neville) Wallis was an English aeronautical designer and military engineer whose famous 9000-lb bouncing "dambuster" bombs of WW II destroyed the German Möhne and Eder dams on 16 May 1943.
		He designed the R100 airship, and the Vickers Wellesley and Wellington bombers.
		The specially-formed RAF 617 Squadron precisely delivered his innovative cylindrical bombs which were released from low altitude, rotating backwards at high speed that caused them to skip along the surface of the water, right up to the base of the dam.
	www.todayinsci.com /9/9_26.htm (1761 words)

	Studio 88 Limited RAF Pictorial History Cards
		D.H.2 - Supermarine S6B - Vickers Valencia - Hawker Horsley - Westland Whirlwind - Handley-Page Halifax - Harvard - Bristol Brigand - Hawker-Siddeley Nimrod
		Handley-Page 0/400 - D.H.9A - Westland Wapiti - Hawker Fury - Vickers Wellesley - Hawker Hurricane I - Douglas Boston - Avro Lincoln - D.H. Chipmunk
		Vickers Victoria - Gloster Gauntlet - Saro London - Vickers Vildebeeste - Handley-Page Halifax I - Martin Maryland - Boeing Fortress - Supermarine Sea Otter - Westland Wessex
	www.studio88.co.uk /acatalog/RAF_Pictorial_History_Cards.html (631 words)

	FlightSim.Com NOTAMS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Vickers Wellesley for CFS2 and FS2002, multi-resolution with virtual cockpit working gauges, canopy and gunner animation, RAF pilot textures, exclusive new weapons now on sale at Icarus Golden Age web site.
		This was the first bomber to apply a geodetic construction.
		The type was obsolete at the outbreak of WWII, but some saw combat in the Mid-East.
	www.flightsim.com /cgi/kds?$=main/notams03/icar0625.htm (93 words)

	Amazon.com: Vickers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		10 SALLL.Y VICKERS She was a suicide case,...
		Vickers Wellesley Bomber, Fine Art Print, 17x11 by Art.com
		Vickers VC 10 Add-On by Aerosoft N.A. Currently unavailable
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=Vickers&index=blended&page=1 (645 words)

	Light Bomber: Miscellaneous
		The Vickers Wellesley was a 1930s light bomber built by Vickers for the Royal Air Force.
		While it was obsolete by the start of World War II, and unsuited to the European air war, the Wellesley prospered in the desert theatres of East Africa, Egypt and the Middle East from 1940 to 1942.
		The Blenheim is a light bomber from the second world war.
	www.lycos.com /info/light-bomber--miscellaneous.html (459 words)

	Old Model Kits: Aurora, Revell, Monogram and other rare and out of production model kits (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Wellesley was a single engine bomber first flown in 1935.
		It is famous for a record setting flight in 1938 from Egypt to Australia.
		The craft was very advanced for it's day, and many features found their way into the next famous Vickers aircraft, the Wellington Bomber.
	www.oldmodelkits.com /index.php?detail=7195&page=3 (110 words)

	Aircraft - RAF Upper Heyford; "Gone But Not Forgotten."
		The Virginia and the later Vickers Wellesley, which was a monoplane, helped maintain the RAF's belief in the long-range bomber as a decisive weapon of war.
		It had the advantage of being more heavily armed than single-seater types, with ` the observer covering the rear with one or two 0.303 Lewis guns and the pilot having a fixed forward-firing Vickers as well as a flexible Lewis mounted on the top wing.
		It arrived on the Western Front at the beginning of April 1917, a month when the Germans gained temporary air superiority over the Royal Flying Corps, who nicknamed this time "Bloody April." The Brisfit also suffered until pilots began to appreciate its speed and maneuverability.
	www.raf-upper-heyford.org /Aircraft.html (2363 words)

	MPM-HML 1/48 Henschel Hs126
		I feel fairly safe that no mass-market injected kit of this aircraft will ever be released in 1:48th, so it's this kit or none for me.
		Inside the sturdy cardboard box is enough room to pack another kit - in my case, a 1:72 Vickers Wellesley from Matchbox - plus a couple handfuls of packing peanuts.
		Good thing I ordered the Matchbox model with this one - I'm sure I would have little beside resin dust had this kit wandered across the Atlantic on it's own.
	www.internetmodeler.com /2000/november/first-looks/mpm_hs126.htm (582 words)

	Vickers Wellesley Released - Fly Away Simulation, Flight Simulator #1
		Vickers Wellesley Released - Fly Away Simulation, Flight Simulator #1
		Now available from Icarus Golden Age for CFS2 and FS2002 is their version of the Vickers Wellesley, a pre-WWII monoplane single engine bomber.
		The model features RAF textures, virtual cockpit, canopy and gunner animation and more.
	flyawaysimulation.com /article144.html (266 words)

	Amazon.com: VICKER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		American Boy - (Pre-order) Van Vicker, Nadia Buari African / Nigerian Movie by Van Vicker; Nadia Buari and Samuel Nyamekye (DVD - Jul 31, 2007)
		VICKERS CS-03-F-50 Pressure Adjust Relief Valve by VICKERS
		Factory Direct Vicker Hydraulic Pumps, Motors & Valves.
	www.amazon.com /s?ie=UTF8&keywords=VICKER&index=blended&page=1 (563 words)

	Vickers Wellesley - British aviation of World War II
		Vickers Wellesley - British aviation of World War II Language
		RAF Armstrong Whitworth AVRo Bristol Fairey Gloster De Havilland Hawker Short Supermarine Taylorcraft Vickers Westland Photos and Draws
		Vickers Wellesley - British aviation of World War II Wellesley
	www.airpages.ru /cgi-bin/epg.pl?nav=uk55&page=welle (153 words)

	Aeroplane Photo Supply menu
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	21st Century Plastic Modeller
		The Airfix product line still has some of the best 1/72 US Navy planes out there, including the Devastator and Duck.
		Other articles in this issue include building the Matchbox Vickers Wellesley, Airfix's Westland Whirlwind, and Revell's latest F-100D.
		All of the articles are very well written and amply illustrated, albeit in fl and white.
	www.internetmodeler.com /2000/august/new-releases/book_21st-cent-modeller.htm (243 words)

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