The top speed of the Vickers Vimy was 166 km/h (103 mph)
Vickers vimy
A Vickers Vimy IV bomber. It used two Rolls-Royce Eagle engines.
God 'Elp All Of Us - the tail number of the Vickers-Vimy that made the first flight from Britain to Australia, ca. 1920
Two British airmen, John Alcock and Arthur Brown, flew a modified Vickers Vimy bomber across the Atlantic in June,1919 - 8 years before Lindbergh !
The population of Vimy is 4,602.
The top speed of a Vickers vc-10 is 580 mph or 933 km/h. The vc-10 made its first flight on june,29 1962.
Two British officers, John Alcock and Arthur Brown flew a Vickers Vimy bomber across the Atlantic Ocean in 1919. It took them 14 and half hours.
Alcock and Brown flying a Vickers Vimy from NewFoundland to Ireland in 1919
That was Captain John Alcock and his copilot Lt. Arthur Brown, both ex-British Army, in a Vickers Vimy in June 1919
That is the anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
It was a Vickers Vimy flown by a 2 man crew, Mr. Brown and Mr. Alcock. The aircraft did not have a name other than the make and model.
Vimy is in France. It is north of Arras about 190 km north of Paris.