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Vimy стал основным тяжелым бомбардировщиком британских ВВС в 1920-х годах, но использовался преимущественно на Ближнем Востоке в составе 45-й, 58-й, 70-й и 216-й эскадрилий и 4-й летной школы. В метрополии самолет эксплуатировали 7-я и 9-я эскадрильи и звено "D" 100-й эскадрильи.

История Авиации 2002-03 / А.Сергиенко - Первые асы Британской Империи /Пионеры/ (3)

F.B.27 B9952 - 1-й прототип бомбардировщика "Виккерс Вими". 30 ноября 1917г. Гордон-Белл впервые поднял этот самолет в воздух.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-06 / C.Andrews - The one and only BAC Vimy

Alcock and Brown’s original aircraft.

Flight 1939-06 / Flight

The Vickers Vimy taking-off from Newfoundland on the attempt. The engines were two Rolls-Royce Eagles of 375 h.p.

История Авиации 2003-01 / С.Корж - Коммерческая авиация /Ретроспектива/ (6)

Another view of the Vimy during the take-off from Newfoundland.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-06 / C.Andrews - The one and only BAC Vimy

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-06 / C.Andrews - The one and only BAC Vimy

G-AWAU in flight at the 1969 Paris Aero Show.

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Один из самолетов Vimy, принадлежавших 216-й эскадрилье, выполняет полет над безлюдной египетской пустыней. Хорошо различимы отдельные элементы в конструкции крыльев и шасси.

Flight 1920-04 / Flight

Sir Ross Smith leaving Richmond, N.S.W., on his Vickers-Vimy-Rolls.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-09 / M.Oakey - Up the Nile in style /Flying in the Vimy/

A Vimy over the Great Pyramid of Pharaon Khufu (Cheops) in the 1920s.

Aviation Historian 1 / D.O'Connor - Flying the Furrow

A Vickers Vimy of No 216 Sqn flies over the Saladin Citadel in Cairo, Egypt. Once the airmail route had been established between Cairo and Baghdad, the Vimys of No 216 Sqn were a regular sight along the Furrow, the unit retaining biplane bombers in the Middle East until as late as 1939

Aviation Historian 1 / D.O'Connor - Flying the Furrow

A trio of Vimys flying in formation over the fertile fields of the Nile Delta in Egypt. In 1925 it was agreed by the RAF and Imperial Airways that the latter would take over the desert airmail service, starting in late 1926.

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Vimy F9147 c двигателями Rolls-Royce Eagle. Машина принадлежала 9-й эскадрилье, базировавшейся в Мэнстоне и эксплуатировавшей Vimy с апреля 1924 года по июнь 1925 года.

История Авиации 2003-03 / С.Корж - Коммерческая авиация /Ретроспектива/ (8)

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-06 / C.Andrews - The one and only BAC Vimy

Flight 1930-07 / Flight

Tense Moments Parachutists being pulled off. The machines are Vickers Vimys.

Flight 1929-06 / Flight

A DRESS REHEARSAL: A striking picture, taken from the air, of six airmen making a simultaneous parachute drop from three Vickers "Vimy" bombers, during a rehearsal of this event, at Henlow, for the forthcoming R.A.F. Display.

Aeroplane Monthly 1974-09 / ??? - Hendon Pageantry 1920-37

AN EXTRA TURN: An unexpected thrill was provided by three Vickers "Vimys," each of which dropped two parachutists. Our photograph shows four of the six descending.
A pair of Vickers Vimys, each dropping two parachutists, at the 1927 pageant.

Flight 1931-07 / Flight

THEY'RE OFF! THE SIX PARACHUTES GENTLY BUT FIRMLY WITHDRAW THE SIX PARACHUTISTS FROM THE THREE VICKERS "VIMYS"

Flight 1930-07 / Flight

Parachute Section, Home Aircraft Depot: Six parachutists leaving the three Vimys.

Flight 1929-07 / Flight

TENTH R.A.F. DISPLAY. EVENT 3: PARACHUTE DESCENTS: A thrilling demonstration by the Parachute Section of the Home Aircraft Depot. Above, six airmen are seen leaving the three Vickers Vimy machines. Below, they are nearing the ground; the two on the left collided, and one released another, emergency, 'chute (which can be seen opening) and thus avoided an accident.

Aeroplane Monthly 1976-06 / Personal album

Vickers F.B.27 Vimy F8631, with a pair of 360 h.p. Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII engines, in the clear-doped finish adopted after the First World War and displaying the distinctive nose skid.

История Авиации 2003-01 / С.Корж - Коммерческая авиация /Ретроспектива/ (6)

Модернизированный "Вими" накануне перед взлетом на аэродроме в Сент-Джонсе (Ньюфаундленд).

Aeroplane Monthly 1994-11 / M.Stephenson - The Spirit of Brooklans

The original Vimy G-EAOU before its departure for Australia in November 1919.

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Предполагалось, что самолет Vimy ждет блестящая карьера в роли тяжелого бомбардировщика, но он стал известен, благодаря рекордным перелетам.

История Авиации 23 / С.Корж - Коммерческая авиация /Ретроспектива/ (9)

Почтовая марка, выпущенная в Австралии в ознаменовании перелета.

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12 ноября - 15 декабря 1919г.: австралийцы братья кэптен Росс Смит и лейтенант Кейт Смит вылетели из Хоунслоу на самолете Vickers Vimy и завершили перелет 18 декабря в Дарвине, Австралия. Братья Смит первыми выполнили перелет из Англии в Австралию, покрыв расстояние в 18 170 км.

Air International 2020-01 / L.Jones - 'Longreach' for the Skies /Commercial/

The first aircraft to fly between the UK and Australia - Vickers Vimy G-EAOU (c/n F8630) - departed Hounslow Heath on November 12, 1919, arriving in Darwin, Australia, 28 days later. It is now preserved at Adelaide Airport, close to where pilots Sirs Ross and Keith MacPherson-Smith were born.

Flight 1929-12 / Flight Advertisements

"THE VICKERS VIMY." The crew comprised Capt. Ross Smith, M.C., D.F.C., Lieut. Keith Smith, Sergt. J. W. Bennett, M.S.M., and Sergt. W. H. Shiers.

Flight 1940-02 / Flight

LONDON-CAIRO-CAPE TOWN AIR-WAY: Lieut.-Col. P. Van Ryneveld, D.S.O., M.C., and Capt. C.J.Q. Brand, D.S.O., M.C., D.F.C., the Pilots and "the Crew" of the Vickers-Vimy-Rolls aeroplane "Silver Queen," on which they started from Brooklands last week to fly to Cape Town in connection with the Union of South Africa Government flight. The "Silver Queen," partly seen in the photo, is a replica of Capt. Sir Ross Smith's machine, on which he successfully accomplished the London-Australia flight

Air Enthusiast 2006-03 / C.Curry - Another Alcock Album /Pioneering day/

John Alcock stowing away his thermos flask of coffee ready for the transatlantic flight attempt on June 14, 1919. Brown can he seen passing up the chocolate and other provisions.

Air Enthusiast 1994-12 / J.Grant - First to 'OZ'

The Vimy and its crew, Wally Shiers in front, the Smith brothers and James Bennett at the rear.

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Южноафриканские пионеры. 4 февраля 1920г.: к выполнению третьего перелета на самолете Vickers Vimy приступили Пьер ван Райнфельд и Кристофер Квинтин Брэнд, взлетевшие на "Silver Queen" из Бруклендса. Машина G-UABA выполнила вынужденную посадку в Коросо, местечке между Каиром и Хартумом. Перелет до Кейптауна был продолжен на самолете DH.9.

Air Enthusiast 1995-09 / J.Godwin - Wings to the Cape

The Silver Queen on the compass turntable at Brooklands.

Air Pictorial 1999-07

Silver Queen, the replica Vickers Vimy, left Brooklands on June 2, 1999, for the short hop to Farnborough, where, the following day, the crew received cheques totalling ?15,000 from British Aerospace and TAG Aviation. The companies are supporting the aircraft’s re-enactment of the first flight from Europe to South Africa in 1920 by Lt Col Pierre Van Ryneveld and Flt Lt Quintin Brand. The replica, piloted by Mark Rebholz and John LaNoue, seen left in the cockpit, with, standing, the two educationalists who will travel with the aircraft, later left Farnborough for Munich from whence it will appear at the Paris Air Show before flying to Cape Town.

Air Pictorial 1999-07

Flight 1920-03 / Flight

A call at Singapore en route to Australia: A snapshot of Sir Ross Smith's Vickers-Vimy-Rolls, secured by Mr. Thomas Sibary, of the Dunlop Rubber Co. (Far East), Ltd., which has been sent to us by Mr. Alex-Mosses, of radiator fame

Flight 1920-04 / Flight

Sir Ross Smith at Richmond, N.S.W., getting ready

Aeroplane Monthly 1994-11 / M.Stephenson - The Spirit of Brooklans

Hot and dry: G-EAOU at Anthony’s Lagoon, Queensland, Australia, in December 1919 after its pioneering flight from England. En route the Vimy and its crew had endured severe turbulence, low cloud, torrential rain, a gale which nearly flipped the aircraft over on the ground, birdstrikes, boggy landing grounds, close encounters with trees and mountains, and fog.

Flight 1940-09 / Flight

Considerable numbers of the Vickers Vimy, of the type which crossed the Atlantic in 1919, were built by Westlands.

Flight 1940-05 / Flight

Two big ones, the Vickers Vimy of 1918 (shown) next the Handley Page O/400 which was to bomb Berlin.

Flight 1937-05 / Flight

FIRST ATLANTIC FLIGHT: THE VICKERS "VIMY" WAS USED BY ALCOCK AND BROWN IN FLIGHT ACROSS ATLANTIC IN 1919.
The Vickers Vimy with Rolls-Royce Eagle engines was the first aeroplane type to cross the Atlantic, to fly from England to S. Africa, and from England to Australia. All these flights were made in 1919.

Flight 1927-03 / Flight

Vickers "Vimy" (Two Rolls-Royce "Eagles"). The Vickers "Vimy" is another of the Service Veterans which must surely be approaching; the end of its long career of good work with the R.A.F. The original "Vimy" was produced in 1917, after which several models made their appearance, each an improvement on the other. The end of the Great War came, however, before the "Vimy" could carry out a series of big raids into the enemy country, as planned and show what it could do. However, after the Armistice it was put into production for service with bombing squadrons. At present only No. 502 Special Reserve Squadron (Aldergrove) has "Vimys."

Air Enthusiast 1995-09 / J.Godwin - Wings to the Cape

Natives haul the Silver Queen out of the mud at Livingstone.

Air Enthusiast 1992-12 / J.Grant - First Across

Vickers Vimy G-EAOU (God 'Elp All Of Us!), the first aircraft to achieve the UK-Australia flight, piloted by Ross and Keith Smith, shown moments after landing at Darwin on December 10, 1919.

Air Pictorial 1955-06 / The journal of a roving spotter

This Vickers Vimy was on the strength of No. 4 F.T.S. at Abu Sueir, Egypt, in 1930. The usual Rolls-Royce Eagles had been replaced by Armstrong-Siddeley Jaguars. This photograph of the Jaguar-Vimy comes from the scrapbook of Air Vice-Marshal the Earl of Bandon, Assistant Chief of Air Staff (Training). He was then Visiting No. 2 F.T.S. while on the staff of the Central Flying School.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-06 / C.Andrews - The one and only BAC Vimy

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-06 / C.Andrews - The one and only BAC Vimy

The transatlantic Vimy originally had a wheel in place of the normal nose skid, but this was removed before the flight. The view here can be compared with the shot of Alcock and Brown’s original aircraft,

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-01 / 1986 UK Aircraft Collections and Museums Guide

Vickers Vimy replica painted as H651.

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1983-04 / Discs, masts and Vimys

Vimy F9181 attached to No.56 Squadron, Biggin Hill, 1923

Air-Britain Aeromilitaria 1982-04 / What's in a name

The Vickers Versailles, first across the Atlantic non-stop. But would the RAF clerks be able to spell it?

Aeroplane Monthly 1994-11 / M.Stephenson - The Spirit of Brooklans

Cold and wet: the original Vimy departing from Hounslow on the bleak and snowy morning of November 12, 1919. The temperatures on the first leg to Lyons were so cold that the crew’s sandwiches froze solid.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - Aircraft A-Z - v5

Vickers Vimy.

Flight 1929-07 / Flight

VICKERS "VIMY": Training Bomber, with two Napier "Lions" (other engines also fitted).

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-05 / Personal album. Military

Vickers Vimy F9183. This 68ft 1in-span heavy bomber was powered by two Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII engines; it entered service in numbers early in 1919, and was superseded by the Vickers Virginia in 1924-25.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - 1. Chronology

Vickers Vimy of No 216 Squadron RAF, operating the pioneer Cairo-to-Baghdad airmail service, which ended in August 1926.

Air Enthusiast 2006-03 / C.Curry - Another Alcock Album /Pioneering day/

The Vimy crated lip and transported by horse and trailer to the field at Quidi-Vidi, St John's, Newfoundland. This was the field chosen by the Martinsyde crew. When the 'Raymor' crashed, Raynham kindly offered the field for the Vimy team to share while the Martinsyde crew tried to rebuild their damaged aeroplane.

Aeroplane Monthly 1994-05 / R.Willson - Early days at Vickers

Alcock and Brown’s transatlantic Vimy being erected at Quidi Vidi airfield, Newfoundland, shortly before their epic flight of June 14-15, 1919.

Aeroplane Monthly 1982-10 / B.Gunston - The classic aero engines (2)

Two 360 h.p. Eagle VIIIs were installed in Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy.

Air Enthusiast 2006-03 / C.Curry - Another Alcock Album /Pioneering day/

The Vimy production line at Brooklands in April 1919 with Vimy fuselage No.13 at the far right. This example was chosen to he modified for the transatlantic attempt. The shop manager strung up some little flags above the Vimy to mark the occasion.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-06 / C.Andrews - The one and only BAC Vimy

The replica's immaculate cockpit, complete with Edwardian engine switches.

Aeroplane Monthly 1993-12 / B.Robertson - An AID to quality (2)

The right-hand-drive cockpit of a Vickers Vimy was functional and ugly, with few “dials” - the engine instruments were on the inboard sides of the nacelles.
Control cables were checked for strength as well as for correct operation, and were tagged as evidence of inspection.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-09 / M.Oakey - Up the Nile in style /Flying in the Vimy/

The Vimy’s cockpit. The control wheel can be used by either pilot.

Air Enthusiast 1972-06 / L.Coombs - Front-office evolution (2)

In the Vickers Vimy, the pilot was seated on the right, following common practice in British aircraft of the day. The large diameter of the control wheel is obvious.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-09 / M.Oakey - Up the Nile in style /Flying in the Vimy/

Vimy pilots Mark Rebholz (left) and John LaNoue, both fully occupied at 5,500ft over the Nile. Project photographer Pete McBride is in the aft cockpit. Note the sharp demarcation between desert and cultivated land in the background.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-10 / Personal album

A series of views from the mid-upper gunner’s position in Vickers Vimy J7448. Top, looking forward to the cockpit; Bottom, looking back between the biplane tail and twin fins and rudders;

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-10 / Personal album

A view from the mid-upper gunner’s position in Vickers Vimy J7448, looking out along the port wings past one of the 360 h.p. Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII engines. Entering service with the RAF at the end of the First World War, the Vimy was not used operationally in that conflict, but served faithfully until as late as 1929. This particular Vimy belonged to No 4 Flying Training School based at Abu Sueir, Egypt, and all of these pictures were probably taken in the Middle East.

Aviation Historian 28 / M.Russell - Bring Out the Big Guns

In 1917 Vickers Vimy F9146 was fitted with a trunnion-mounted 37mm COW gun in a modified nose section at Brooklands. The Vimy was used in trials with the gun for possible use as a Home Defence machine to counter airships and bombers, but the gun’s length and recoil made it cumbersome and the idea was not adopted.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-09 / M.Oakey - Up the Nile in style /Flying in the Vimy/

Equipped for the trip: the nose cockpit, complete with Editor’s feet, loaded up for the Cairo-Luxor flight.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-09 / M.Oakey - Up the Nile in style /Flying in the Vimy/

The view from the bay window: the Vimy’s nose cockpit provides a memorable vantage point a few thousand feet above the Nile.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-06 / C.Andrews - The one and only BAC Vimy

The fuselage structure.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-06 / C.Andrews - The one and only BAC Vimy

An uncovered outer wing panel.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-06 / C.Andrews - The one and only BAC Vimy

The completed port upper outer wing panel at Weybridge.

Aeroplane Monthly 1993-11 / M.Oakey - Grapevine

Wayne Daley of Brisbane-based Aircraft Engineering holds a fin and rudder of Peter McMillan and Lang Kidby’s Vickers Vimy reproduction.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-06 / C.Andrews - The one and only BAC Vimy

The assembled tail surfaces.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-06 / C.Andrews - The one and only BAC Vimy

The seventh of eight propeller laminations is glued up before being clamped into the jig in the foreground. Each lamination was made from inch-thick mahogany.

История Авиации 2003-01 / С.Корж - Коммерческая авиация /Ретроспектива/ (6)

В таком положении завершился исторический перелет через Атлантику Элкока и Брауна.

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Элкок и Браун у скапотировавшего при посадке в Клифдене, Ирландия, самолета Vimy. Площадку для посадки выбрал Элкок, но болото на месте лужайки он разглядел слишком поздно.

Air Enthusiast 2006-03 / C.Curry - Another Alcock Album /Pioneering day/

A large tent was still not large enough to act as a hangar for the Vimy, which had to he totally reassembled out in the open air.

Air Enthusiast 2006-03 / C.Curry - Another Alcock Album /Pioneering day/

The weather was so bad that special screens were erected to keep the wind and rain off the mechanics and riggers as they reassembled the Vimy.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-10 / Personal album

Ack-emmas and local natives examine an anonymous but already rebuilt Vimy, JR?42?, bent by CpI Gordon, place and date unknown.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-06 / C.Andrews - The one and only BAC Vimy

Disaster strikes at Ringway, Manchester, on July 14, 1969. In the picture on the top the fire can be seen starting on the leading edge of the port lower main-plane, just behind the second strut from the tip. The next view shows the wing well alight, and the fire spreading outwards and upwards.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-06 / C.Andrews - The one and only BAC Vimy

The port upper wing structure still burning. Note that the aircraft had been given military markings by this time.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-10 / Personal album

Vickers-built Vimy F8632 after "P/O Robertson's crash" - unfortunately undated. Picture shows it immediately after the mishap.

Aeroplane Monthly 1979-10 / Personal album

Vickers-built Vimy F8632 after "P/O Robertson's crash" - unfortunately undated. Picture depicts it during recovery, with its outer wing panels removed. This Vimy has been re-engined with Armstrong Siddeley Jaguar aircooled radial engines, as were quite a few after withdrawal from first-line service.

Flight 1920-03 / Flight

CAIRO-CAPE AIR-WAY: The crash of the first "Silver Queen." A general view of the wreckage at Korosko.

Air Enthusiast 1995-09 / J.Godwin - Wings to the Cape

The crash of Silver Queen II at Bulawayo.

Aeroplane Monthly 2001-05

Vimy replica builder/pilot/chief engineer John LaNoue (right) and the Editor examine a Vimy model during pre-lecture drinks at the Brooklands Vimy Night on March 3, 2001.

Aeroplane Monthly 2001-05 / News

Peter with one of two large scale models of Alcock and Brown's transatlantic Vimy owned by the Brooklands Museum and on display during the event.

Aeroplane Monthly 1994-11 / M.Stephenson - The Spirit of Brooklans

Flight 1925-06 / Flight

TWO ATLANTIC CROSSINGS: Six years ago, on Sunday next, a Vickers' "Vimy" with two Rolls-Royce engines, piloted by the late Sir John Alcock, and navigated by Sir A. Whitten Brown, left Newfoundland on its flight across the Atlantic, landing 16 hours 12 mins. later at Clifden, Co. Galway, Ireland, thus completing the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic. Columbus's ship "Santa Maria," left the Canary Islands on September 6, 1492, and made a landfall at what is now known as Watling Island, in the Bahama group, on October 12. The object of the above illustration is to show the comparative sizes of the craft, and it might be pointed out that the drawing was made over a photograph of two models made to the same scale and photographed in position in the vertical plane, so that even taking into account the effect of perspective a correct idea of relative sizes is obtained.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-12 / E.Morgan - Vickers' big 'boat /Type history/

A Vickers proposal for a “Vimy Boat Seaplane” amphibian conversion of the Vimy bomber; drawing No 5156, dated April 30, 1920. The design mated Vimy flying surfaces with a new hull.

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