- Vickers Vulcan
infobox Aircraft
name = Vickers Vulcan
caption =
type =Airliner
manufacturer =Vickers
designer =Rex Pierson
first flight = April 1922
introduced =1 June 1922
retired = July 1928
number built =8
status =
produced = 1922–1925
unit cost =
variants with their own articles =
primary user =Instone Air Line
more users =Imperial Airways The Vickers Vulcan was a British single-enginedbiplane airliner of the 1920s built byVickers Limited at Brooklands Aerodrome, Surrey. It carried 8 passengers and a pilot.Development
The Vickers Vulcan was designed by Rex Pierson of Vickers and it first flew in April 1922 at the hands of the chief test pilot,
S. Cockerell , at the Brooklands Aerodrome inSurrey , UK.The Vulcan was based on Vickers Vimy Commercial, but featured many changes, including a much larger
fuselage (taller) and one, instead of two,Rolls Royce Eagle VIII engines, with the intention being to get low operating costs. The shape of its fuselage, as well as its flying characteristics, earned it the nickname "Flying Pig". The first delivery took place in August 1922, toInstone Air Line Ltd. Other operators includedImperial Airways andQantas (however, the latter returned the aircraft as their performance was too poor for the company's needs). The last Vulcan flying was a Type 74 with Imperial Airways. It crashed in July 1928.Variants
* Type 61 - first production version
* Type 63 - cargo version based on the Type 61
* Type 74 - upgraded to 450 hpNapier Lion engineOperators
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*Qantas ;UK
*Imperial Airways
*Instone Air Line Individual aircraft
# G-EBBL; Type 61 - Prototype, first flew in April 1922, delivered to
Instone Air Line in June 1922 as "City of Antwerp", sold to Imperial Airways, scrapped atCroydon Airport in May 1924.
# G-EBDH; Type 61 - Delivered to Instone Air Line in July 1922, accident atOxted , Surrey, in 1922. returned to Vickers atBrooklands and withdrawn from use in 1923.
# G-EBEA; Type 61 - Delivered to Instone Air Line in July 1922 as "City of Brussels", returned to Vickers atBrooklands and withdrawn from use in 1923.
# G-EBEK; Type 63 - Delivered toAir Ministry at Martlesham Heath in November 1922 with Eagle IX for freighter trials, converted to passenger layout in 1925, scrapped in 1926.
# G-EBEM; Type 61 - Delivered toDouglas Vickers MP in September 1922, competed in King's Cup Air Race in September 1922, taking 7th place, disappeared of the coast of Italy in May 1926.
# G-EBES; Type 61 - Intended for Qantas, scrapped before completion.
# G-EBET; Type 61 - Delivered to Qantas in November 1922, returned, fate unknown but probably scrapped.
# G-EBFC; Type 74 - Delivered to Douglas Vickers MP January 1923, competed in King's Cup Air Race in 1923 (retired from the race), sold to Imperial Airways in January 1925, withdrawn from service in December 1925 and scrapped at Croydon in 1927.
# G-EBLB; Type 74 - Delivered to Imperial Airways in May 1925, crashed atPurley July 1928.pecifications (Vulcan Type 74)
aircraft specifications
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