According to the BAE Systems info page, “Some of the last of the type to remain in service were used by the Parachute Testing Unit at RAF Henlow, although a number of Vickers Virginia aircraft ...

The Vickers Swallow was intended to succeed the so-called Wild Goose project and the Vickers Valiant subsonic bomber. To most human observers, the songbirds known as swallows (order Passeriformes ...

The bomber was conceptualized by the now-defunct Vickers-Armstrongs Limited, which, as we recently reported, also made the prop-driven Vickers Virginia biplane, which was Britain’s best bomber ...