Editing Vickers Vimy (section)

{{Short description|British early heavy bomber aircraft}}
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{{Use British English|date=July 2011}}
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{{Infobox aircraft
  |name = Vimy
  |image = Vickers Vimy.jpg
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  |type = [[Heavy bomber]]
  |manufacturer = [[Vickers Limited]]
  |designer = [[Rex Pierson]]
  |first_flight = 30 November 1917
  |introduction = 1919
  |retired = 1933
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  |primary_user = [[Royal Air Force]]
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  |variants = [[Vickers Vernon]]<br>[[Vickers Virginia]]
}}

The '''Vickers Vimy''' was a British [[heavy bomber]] aircraft developed and manufactured by [[Vickers Limited]]. Developed during the latter stages of the [[World War I|First World War]] to equip the [[Royal Flying Corps]] (RFC), the Vimy was designed by [[Rex Pierson]], Vickers' chief designer.

Only a handful of Vickers Vimy aircraft had entered service by the time the [[Armistice of 11 November 1918]] came into effect, so the type did not serve in active combat operations during the war, but the Vimy became the core of the [[Royal Air Force]] (RAF)'s [[heavy bomber]] force throughout the 1920s. The Vimy achieved success as both a military and a civil aircraft, the latter using the ''Vimy Commercial'' variant. A dedicated transport derivative of the Vimy, the [[Vickers Vernon]], became the first troop-transport aircraft operated by the RAF.

During the [[interwar period]] the Vimy set several records for long-distance flights, the most celebrated and significant of these being the first non-stop crossing of the [[Atlantic Ocean]], performed by [[Alcock and Brown|John Alcock and Arthur Brown]] in June 1919. Other record-breaking flights were made from the United Kingdom to destinations such as South Africa and Australia. The Vimy continued to be operated until the 1930s in military and civil capacities.

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