Designed for 'hot and high' conditions across BOAC's 'Empire routes' with high lift wings and an efficient rear engine design. The iconic rear-mounted quad-jet layout created a smoother, quieter ...

The practice of building such dedicated transport aircraft dates back to the 1921 Vickers Vernon, with 55 production aircraft based on the Vickers Vimy bomber. The Vimy and its derivatives feature ...

A man in Germany has found the crash site where an RAF airman from Oldham was killed during WWII– and now he's trying to find his relatives. Sgt Joe Hilton Halliwell, from Shaw, was just 22 years old ...

"It (the Vickers Wellington) was very ... By the time Bert was in Gibraltar, the threat of marauding Messerschmitts — planes that formed part of the backbone of the Germans' fighter force ...