Vickers Viking
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The Vickers Viking was a British single-engine pusher amphibious biplane designed shortly after World War I. The final versions were renamed the Vulture and Vanellus.
Vickers Viking prototype in 1919
Vickers Viking IV model 85 of the Royal Canadian Air Force in 1926
Royal Air Force Vickers Viking V
Vickers Vulture
John Alcock (RAF officer)
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Captain Sir John William Alcock was a British Royal Navy and later Royal Air Force officer who, with navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown, piloted the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St.
Vickers Viking
…31 Vikings were built, 25 by Vickers and 6 by Canadian Vickers, plus two Vultures and one Vanellus. Sir John Alcock died taking the prototype G-EAOV to the Paris exhibition on 18 December 1919, whilst trying to land at Côte d'Evrard, near Rouen, Normandy in fog. The…
Captain John Alcock, portrait
Alcock (right) with Arthur Brown in 1919
Gravestone of Alcock in Southern Cemetery, Manchester
A sculpture of Alcock and Brown near the location of the (demolished) Vickers factory in Crayford, southeast London