The top speed of the Vickers Vimy was 166 km/h (103 mph)
Vickers vimy
God 'Elp All Of Us - the tail number of the Vickers-Vimy that made the first flight from Britain to Australia, ca. 1920
A Vickers Vimy IV bomber. It used two Rolls-Royce Eagle engines.
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.
That is the anniversary of the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
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.
That was Captain John Alcock and his copilot Lt. Arthur Brown, both ex-British Army, in a Vickers Vimy in June 1919
Alcock and Brown flying a Vickers Vimy from NewFoundland to Ireland in 1919
Vimy is in France. It is north of Arras about 190 km north of Paris.
The area of Vimy is 11.33 square kilometers.