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Vickers Wellesley flying over England in April 1937
Inside Vickers Wellesley bomber
Ah, the old Vickers Wellesley looking good, East Africa WWII 47 Sqn. (FTP)
This was the first RAF Sqn to receive these. The Wellesley holds the world record for the longest non-stop flight by a single piston-engined aircraft of 7,162 miles (11,526 km). (FTP)
The Vickers Wellesley was a medium bomber. In a geodetic design (as used in the R100 Airship) the structural members form a light, robust and damage tolerant lattice work. The name geodetic arises from the designer creating load paths along geodesics – a geodesic being the shortest distance between two points on a curved surface.By the outbreak of World War ll some 100 Wellesleys remained in RAF service in the Middle East, being used operationally against Italian forces at a later stage and remaining in use for maritime patrol until 1941.
Vickers WELLESLEY
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