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22 August 1922 – first flight of Vickers Victoria

21 August 2025 Jacek Domański

On 22nd August 1922, the prototype of the Vickers Victoria freighter biplane performed its maiden flight at Brooklands, the United Kingdom. In 1920, the British Air Ministry issued Specification 5/20 for a twin-engine troop-carrier biplane. […]

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11 October 1956 – Operation Buffalo, the first RAF airdrop of an atomic bomb

10 October 2024 Jacek Domański

On 11th October 1956, a Valiant B.1 bomber of No. 49 Squadron of the Royal Air Force became the first British aircraft to drop a live atomic bomb, within the Kite test, being a part […]

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14 June 1919 – Alcock and Brown begins their transatlantic flight

13 June 2024 Jacek Domański

On 14th June 1919, John Alcock and Arthur Brown took-off from St. John´s airfield on Newfoundland in their attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The two British aviators flew a modified Vickers Vimy F.B.27A Mk […]

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Alcock and Brown – the first non-stop transatlantic flight

5 June 2024 Jacek Domański

On 15th June 1919, John Alcock and Arthur Brown successfully landed their Vickers Vimy aircraft in County Galway in Ireland, completing the first non-stop transatlantic flight in aviation history. In April of 1913, the Daily […]

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10 December 1919 – the first flight from England to Australia

9 December 2021 Jacek Domański

On 10th December 1919, a modified Vickers Vimy heavy bomber with a crew of Keith Macpherson Smith, Ross Macpherson Smith, W.H. Shiers and J.M. Bennet, successfully landed at Darwin, completing the 17,911 kilometres journey from […]

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