{"id":21254,"date":"2026-08-16T20:26:50","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/?page_id=21254"},"modified":"2026-08-16T20:26:50","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T18:26:50","slug":"vickers-vimy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/migflug.com\/pt\/aircraft\/vickers-vimy\/","title":{"rendered":"Vickers Vimy \u2014 History, Specs, Photos &#038; Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mfam\">\n<style>@import url('https:\/\/fonts.googleapis.com\/css2?family=Lora:ital,wght@0,400;0,500;1,400;1,500&display=swap'); body.page-id-21254 h1.entry-title.main_title{display:none} body.page-id-21254 #main-content .container{padding-top:0} body.page-id-21254 #left-area{padding-bottom:0} html{overflow-x:hidden} body.page-id-21254{overflow-x:hidden} body.page-id-21254 #sidebar{display:none} body.page-id-21254 #left-area{width:100%!important;float:none;padding:0} #mfam{width:100vw;margin-left:calc(50% - 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src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" alt=\"Vickers Vimy twin-engine heavy bomber, full-scale replica in Royal Air Force markings\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"wrap hero-in\">\n<div class=\"crumb\"><a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/\">Book of Beasts<\/a> \/ Vickers Vimy<\/div>\n<h1>Vickers Vimy<em> \u2014 the bomber that missed its war and conquered the world&#8217;s oceans instead<\/em><\/h1>\n<div class=\"sub\">A big, steady twin-engined biplane built to bomb Germany, it arrived too late to fight. Instead it made history: the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic, and the first flight from England to Australia.<\/div>\n<div class=\"statstrip\">\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>~160 km\/h<\/b><span>Top speed<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>2 &times; 360 hp<\/b><span>Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>~20.75 m<\/b><span>Wingspan<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"stat\"><b>1919<\/b><span>First across the Atlantic<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"credit\">Photo: Alan Wilson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (full-scale replica)<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"chips\">\n<div class=\"chip\"><b>Role<\/b>Heavy bomber \/ long-distance pioneer<\/div>\n<div class=\"chip\"><b>Era<\/b>First World War &amp; the 1920s<\/div>\n<div class=\"chip\"><b>Engine<\/b>2 &times; Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII<\/div>\n<div class=\"chip\"><b>Origin<\/b>United Kingdom<\/div>\n<div class=\"chip\"><b>Status<\/b>Retired &middot; originals &amp; replica preserved<\/div>\n<p><a class=\"chip fly\" href=\"#faq\">Can you still fly one?<\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">The Story<\/div>\n<h2>The Vickers Vimy: the war-machine that made peace-time history<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cols\">\n<div>\n<p>The Vickers Vimy was designed for a job it never really did. In 1917, with German cities beyond the reach of most Allied aircraft, the British Air Board issued a specification for a heavy bomber able to carry a worthwhile load of bombs from bases in France, or even England, deep into Germany. Vickers&#8217; chief designer, Rex Pierson, answered with a large, clean twin-engined biplane. The prototype first flew on 30 November 1917 &mdash; and there its wartime story very nearly ends.<\/p>\n<p>The Vimy was simply too late. Development, engine troubles and the sheer novelty of the design meant that only a handful of aircraft had reached France by the time the guns fell silent on 11 November 1918, and <strong>the type never saw combat in the First World War<\/strong>. Had the war run into 1919 as many expected, the Vimy would have been the RAF&#8217;s standard strategic bomber for the long-planned raids on Germany. Instead, the Armistice left Britain with a fine new heavy bomber and nothing to bomb.<\/p>\n<p>What happened next is why the world remembers the name. In June 1919 a modified Vimy, stripped of its military equipment and filled with fuel, carried Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown non-stop across the Atlantic &mdash; the first aeroplane ever to do so &mdash; from Newfoundland to a bog in the west of Ireland. Five months later another Vimy, flown by the Australian brothers Ross and Keith Smith, became the first aircraft to fly from England to Australia, an eleven-thousand-mile journey that had seemed barely credible. A third Vimy set out to be first from England to South Africa in 1920. In the space of a year the Vimy turned the map of the world into something an aeroplane could cross.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the record flights was a steady military career. The Vimy became a mainstay of the post-war Royal Air Force, equipping the home-based heavy-bomber squadrons through the early 1920s and serving in the Middle East, and it soldiered on as a training and parachuting aircraft into the end of the decade. Its roomy design also spawned a family: the enlarged Vimy Commercial airliner and, from that, the Vernon &mdash; the RAF&#8217;s first purpose-built troop-transport, which flew the desert air-routes of Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>None of this should be over-stated. As a bomber the Vimy was slow, lightly built by later standards, and eclipsed within a decade. But as the machine that first joined continents by air, it has a secure place in aviation history &mdash; and, unusually for an aircraft of its age, you can still stand in front of the real thing: Alcock and Brown&#8217;s Atlantic Vimy survives in London, the Smiths&#8217; Vimy in Adelaide, and a modern airworthy replica has re-flown all three of its pioneering routes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"pull\">&#8220;We have had a terrible journey. The wonder is we are here at all.&#8221;<cite>Words attributed to Captain John Alcock after the first non-stop<br \/><b>transatlantic flight, Clifden, 15 June 1919<\/b><\/cite><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Go Deeper<\/div>\n<h2>The Vickers Vimy in detail: the bomber, the engines and why it missed the war<\/h2>\n<div class=\"deepset\">\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">01<\/span><span class=\"t\">The Vickers Vimy&#8217;s origins: a 1917 bomber to strike Germany<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>The Vimy was born from the same idea as the German Gotha and the British Handley Page O\/400: that the aeroplane could carry a war beyond the trenches and strike an enemy&#8217;s cities and industry directly. By 1917 Britain wanted a bomber that could reach Germany itself. The Air Board issued a specification for a twin-engined heavy bomber, and Vickers &mdash; through its designer Reginald Kirshaw &#8220;Rex&#8221; Pierson &mdash; produced the machine originally given the company designation F.B.27 and named &#8220;Vimy&#8221; after the 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge.<\/p>\n<p>The prototype first flew on 30 November 1917, piloted by Captain Gordon Bell. Several prototypes followed, each testing different engines as Vickers searched for a reliable powerplant. Orders were placed for large numbers &mdash; the plan was to equip a strategic bombing force for a 1919 campaign against Germany &mdash; but building and perfecting so large an aircraft took time.<\/p>\n<h5>Why it mattered<\/h5>\n<p>The Vimy represented Britain&#8217;s second generation of heavy bomber, cleaner and more capable than the pioneering Handley Page O-types it was meant to replace. It embodied the belief, held strongly in 1918, that long-range bombing would be decisive &mdash; a belief the aircraft itself would never get the chance to test in war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">02<\/span><span class=\"t\">The Vickers Vimy&#8217;s Rolls-Royce Eagle engines and biplane structure<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>Production Vimys were powered by two Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII engines &mdash; water-cooled V-12s of about 360 horsepower each &mdash; mounted in nacelles between the biplane wings and driving tractor propellers. The Eagle was one of the outstanding aero-engines of the war, and it gave the Vimy the reliability that its record-breaking flights would depend on. Because the Eagle was in high demand, some prototypes and variants were fitted with alternative engines such as the Hispano-Suiza, Sunbeam Maori, Salmson, Fiat and the American Liberty; production standardised on the Eagle VIII.<\/p>\n<p>Structurally the Vimy was a conventional two-bay biplane of wood and fabric, with a wingspan of about 20.75 m (68 ft) &mdash; large, but considerably smaller than the hundred-foot Handley Page O\/400. A crew of three was typical: pilot, and two others acting as navigator, gunner and engineer. It was steady and pleasant to fly, if unspectacular; qualities that made it a poor dogfighter but an excellent platform for long, patient journeys.<\/p>\n<p>Top speed was around 160 km\/h (about 100 mph) and service ceiling roughly 2,100 m (about 7,000 ft) &mdash; figures that vary between sources and with load. These were the numbers of a load-carrier, not a racer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">03<\/span><span class=\"t\">Why the Vickers Vimy missed the First World War<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>The Vimy&#8217;s most striking feature is a negative one: despite being designed as a bomber, it never dropped a bomb in anger during the war it was built for. The timing was simply against it. The prototype flew in late 1917, but turning a promising prototype into squadron-ready aircraft &mdash; sorting engines, fixing teething troubles, tooling up production &mdash; took most of 1918.<\/p>\n<p>By the Armistice of 11 November 1918, only a very small number of Vimys had reached the front; accounts commonly say just one or a handful had arrived in France, and none had flown a combat mission. The great strategic-bombing offensive against Germany that the Vimy was meant to spearhead was planned for 1919 and never took place.<\/p>\n<p>This is why the Vimy is such an unusual aircraft historically. Its fame rests almost entirely on what it did <strong>after<\/strong> the war, in peacetime, as a long-distance pioneer &mdash; and only secondarily on the military career it went on to have in the 1920s. Few famous warplanes are famous for something other than fighting.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Design &amp; Engineering<\/div>\n<h2>How the Vickers Vimy was built to go the distance<\/h2>\n<div class=\"cards3\">\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"num\">01<\/div>\n<h3>A clean twin-engined biplane<\/h3>\n<p>A conventional wood-and-fabric biplane of about 20.75 m span, roomy and stable &mdash; smaller and cleaner than the Handley Page O\/400 it was meant to replace, and easy to fly on long trips.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"num\">02<\/div>\n<h3>Two dependable Rolls-Royce Eagles<\/h3>\n<p>A pair of Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII V-12s of about 360 hp each &mdash; the reliability that made non-stop ocean crossings and eleven-thousand-mile journeys survivable rather than suicidal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ecard\">\n<div class=\"num\">03<\/div>\n<h3>Space for fuel, or for a story<\/h3>\n<p>Designed to carry bombs and a crew of three, the airframe had the volume to be stripped out and filled with extra fuel tanks &mdash; the change that turned a bomber into a record-breaker.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Full Specifications<\/div>\n<h2>Vickers Vimy specifications, performance and cost<\/h2>\n<p>Figures are representative of a standard Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII-engined Vimy IV bomber; dimensions, weights, performance and production totals vary between contemporary sources, and estimated or contested values are flagged.<\/p>\n<div class=\"specgrid\">\n<dl class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Airframe &amp; performance<\/h4>\n<dt>Type<\/dt>\n<dd>Heavy bomber (biplane); long-distance pioneer<\/dd>\n<dt>Origin<\/dt>\n<dd>United Kingdom &middot; Vickers Ltd<\/dd>\n<dt>Designer<\/dt>\n<dd>Rex Pierson (company designation F.B.27)<\/dd>\n<dt>First flight<\/dt>\n<dd>30 November 1917<\/dd>\n<dt>Crew<\/dt>\n<dd>Typically 3 (sources vary; 2&ndash;3)<\/dd>\n<dt>Length<\/dt>\n<dd>~13.3 m (43 ft 6.5 in)<\/dd>\n<dt>Wingspan<\/dt>\n<dd>~20.75 m (68 ft 1 in)<\/dd>\n<dt>Height<\/dt>\n<dd>~4.6 m (15 ft 3 in)<\/dd>\n<dt>Engines<\/dt>\n<dd>2 &times; Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII V-12<\/dd>\n<dt>Power<\/dt>\n<dd>~360 hp (268 kW) each<\/dd>\n<dt>Max speed<\/dt>\n<dd>~160 km\/h (~100 mph)<\/dd>\n<dt>Service ceiling<\/dt>\n<dd>~2,100 m (~7,000 ft)<\/dd>\n<dt>Range<\/dt>\n<dd>~1,450 km (~900 miles) as bomber<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<dl class=\"spectable\">\n<h4>Armament, production &amp; cost<\/h4>\n<dt>Bomb load<\/dt>\n<dd>Up to ~1,120 kg (~2,476 lb)<\/dd>\n<dt>Defensive guns<\/dt>\n<dd>Up to 2&ndash;4 &times; .303 in Lewis guns<\/dd>\n<dt>Wartime combat<\/dt>\n<dd>None &mdash; entered service after the Armistice<\/dd>\n<dt>Number built<\/dt>\n<dd>Commonly cited as ~200&ndash;240 (figures vary)<\/dd>\n<dt>Main operators<\/dt>\n<dd>RAF; record flights civil-registered<\/dd>\n<dt>Famous firsts<\/dt>\n<dd>1st non-stop Atlantic; 1st England&ndash;Australia (1919)<\/dd>\n<dt>Derivatives<\/dt>\n<dd>Vimy Commercial airliner; Vernon transport<\/dd>\n<dt>Unit cost<\/dt>\n<dd>Not reliably recorded (WWI\/early 1920s)<\/dd>\n<dt>Cost per flight hour<\/dt>\n<dd>Not applicable &mdash; no commercial operation<\/dd>\n<dt>Retired (RAF)<\/dt>\n<dd>Frontline ~1925; training use to ~1929<\/dd>\n<dt>Survivors<\/dt>\n<dd>2 originals preserved + airworthy replica<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Go Deeper<\/div>\n<h2>The Vickers Vimy&#8217;s record flights, service and legacy<\/h2>\n<div class=\"deepset\">\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">04<\/span><span class=\"t\">The Vickers Vimy and the first non-stop transatlantic flight: Alcock and Brown, 1919<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>The London newspaper the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> had offered a &pound;10,000 prize for the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic. In the spring of 1919 several teams gathered in Newfoundland to try. Vickers entered a modified Vimy, its bomb gear removed and extra fuel tanks fitted, flown by pilot Captain John Alcock and navigator Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown.<\/p>\n<p>They took off from Lester&#8217;s Field near St. John&#8217;s on the afternoon of 14 June 1919. The crossing was brutal: fog that hid the horizon, a failed electrical generator, ice, and at one point a spin from which Alcock recovered only just above the waves. Brown reportedly had to climb out onto the wings to clear ice from the engine intakes. After roughly sixteen hours in the air they crossed the Irish coast and, spotting what looked like a green field near Clifden in County Galway, put down &mdash; only for the &#8220;field&#8221; to be Derrygimlagh bog. The Vimy tipped onto its nose in the soft ground, but both men climbed out unhurt.<\/p>\n<h5>The reward<\/h5>\n<p>It was the first non-stop aerial crossing of the Atlantic in history, covering about 1,890 miles in a little under sixteen hours of flying. Alcock and Brown collected the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> prize and were both knighted by King George V within days. (Exact timings and the flight distance vary slightly between sources.) Tragically, Sir John Alcock was killed in a flying accident in France only six months later.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">05<\/span><span class=\"t\">The Vickers Vimy&#8217;s first England-to-Australia flight: the Smith brothers, 1919<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>The Australian government offered a &pound;10,000 prize for the first flight from England to Australia by Australians in a British aircraft, to be completed within 30 days. Brothers Captain Ross Macpherson Smith and Lieutenant Keith Macpherson Smith, with mechanics Sergeants Jim (Wally) Bennett and Wally Shiers, entered a standard Vimy registered G-EAOU &mdash; a registration the crew joked stood for &#8220;God &#8216;Elp All Of Us&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>They left Hounslow Heath, west of London, on 12 November 1919 and flew east in stages: across France and Italy, over the Mediterranean to Crete and Cairo, on through Damascus, Baghdad and Persia to Karachi, across India to Calcutta, then Rangoon, Bangkok, Singapore and the Dutch East Indies, before the final island-hops to Timor and the crossing to Darwin. They landed at Darwin on 10 December 1919, inside the time limit, having flown roughly 11,000 miles (about 18,000 km) in some 28 days.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first flight from England to Australia, and one of the epic journeys of early aviation &mdash; a route that would later become an arterial airline path. The Smith brothers were both knighted and the crew shared the prize. Their Vimy, G-EAOU, still exists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">06<\/span><span class=\"t\">The Vickers Vimy and the England-to-South-Africa attempt: &#8220;Silver Queen&#8221;, 1920<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>The third of the great 1919&ndash;20 route-proving flights was the attempt to fly from England to Cape Town. In February 1920 the South African airmen Lieutenant Colonel Pierre van Ryneveld and Squadron Leader Christopher Quintin Brand set off from Brooklands in a Vimy named &#8220;Silver Queen&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike the Atlantic and Australia flights, this one did not end in a Vimy. &#8220;Silver Queen&#8221; was forced down and wrecked in Egypt, near Wadi Halfa, after an engine problem. The crew continued in a second borrowed Vimy, &#8220;Silver Queen II&#8221;, which was in turn wrecked on take-off near Bulawayo in Southern Rhodesia (today Zimbabwe). Van Ryneveld and Brand finished the journey to Cape Town in a substitute aircraft &mdash; a de Havilland D.H.9 &mdash; arriving on 20 March 1920. They too were knighted for the achievement.<\/p>\n<p>So while the Vimy&#8217;s name is attached to the first England&ndash;South Africa flight, strictly speaking <strong>no Vimy completed it<\/strong>: the record was finished on a different aeroplane after both Vimys were lost. It is a detail often glossed over, and worth stating plainly.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">07<\/span><span class=\"t\">The Vickers Vimy in RAF service in the 1920s<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>Away from the headlines, the Vimy did become the standard RAF heavy bomber of the early post-war years &mdash; the role it had been designed for, arriving just too late to fight. It equipped home-based bomber squadrons in Britain from 1919 and served overseas, including in Egypt and the Middle East, where the RAF used air power to police its new mandates.<\/p>\n<p>As newer bombers such as the Vickers Virginia arrived, the Vimy was steadily relegated to second-line duties. It found a long and useful afterlife as a training aircraft &mdash; particularly for night flying and, notably, as one of the RAF&#8217;s early parachute-training aircraft, from which trainee parachutists jumped. In these roles some Vimys soldiered on until around 1929, a decade after the type first flew.<\/p>\n<p>It was an unglamorous career, but a solid one, and it means the Vimy was a familiar sight in British skies throughout the 1920s &mdash; not merely a one-off record-breaker but a genuine service aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">08<\/span><span class=\"t\">From bomber to airliner: the Vimy Commercial and the Vernon<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>The Vimy&#8217;s roomy design lent itself to conversion, and Vickers developed a dedicated civil version, the Vimy Commercial, with a much larger, deeper fuselage of monocoque construction able to carry around ten passengers. It first flew in 1919 and saw service with early airlines; a number were exported, including to China.<\/p>\n<p>From the Vimy Commercial the RAF derived the Vernon, generally regarded as the service&#8217;s first purpose-built troop-transport aircraft. Vernons flew the desert air-route across Iraq in the early 1920s, carrying troops and mail and even mounting one of the first strategic air-lifts of soldiers. The Vimy family therefore sits at the root of both military and civil air transport in Britain.<\/p>\n<h5>A wider family<\/h5>\n<p>Taken together &mdash; bomber, record-breaker, airliner and transport &mdash; the Vimy line shows how directly the heavy aircraft of 1918 fed into the civil aviation and air-transport networks of the 1920s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">09<\/span><span class=\"t\">The Vickers Vimy&#8217;s operating costs: what a 1919 record-breaker cost<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>No reliable unit price or hourly operating cost survives for the Vimy in a form worth quoting. It was a wartime and early-1920s military aircraft, procured under conditions and accounting utterly unlike those of a modern machine, and the surviving records do not translate into a meaningful &#8220;cost per flight hour&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>What can be said is that the Vimy was expensive in the terms that mattered then: it needed two of the scarce, costly Rolls-Royce Eagle engines, a skilled crew and a great deal of fuel. The record flights were underwritten by newspaper and government prize money precisely because such long-distance flying was hugely expensive and risky. Because <strong>no Vimy is operated commercially today<\/strong> &mdash; the survivors are museum pieces and the airworthy machine is a replica &mdash; there is no genuine modern per-hour cost to quote, and any figure presented as one is not grounded in a real, flyable original.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details class=\"deep\">\n<summary><span class=\"no\">10<\/span><span class=\"t\">Surviving Vickers Vimys: the originals and the airworthy replica<\/span><\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>Remarkably for an aircraft of its age, more than one genuine Vimy survives. Alcock and Brown&#8217;s actual transatlantic Vimy was preserved and is displayed at the <strong>Science Museum in London<\/strong>. The Smith brothers&#8217; England-to-Australia Vimy, G-EAOU, is preserved in a purpose-built memorial hall at <strong>Adelaide Airport in South Australia<\/strong>. There is also a full-scale non-flying replica of a Vimy bomber in RAF markings on display in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>On top of the originals, a modern <strong>airworthy replica<\/strong> was built in the 1990s by a team led by Peter McMillan and Lang Kidby. This flying Vimy re-created all three of the type&#8217;s pioneering routes: England to Australia in 1994, England to South Africa in 1999, and the transatlantic crossing in 2005. After its flying career the replica was retired to Brooklands Museum, on the very site where Vickers built the original Vimys.<\/p>\n<p>Between the two preserved originals and the record-repeating replica, the Vimy is far better represented today than most of its contemporaries &mdash; you really can go and stand in front of the aircraft that first crossed the Atlantic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Timeline<\/div>\n<h2>The Vickers Vimy from drawing board to record book<\/h2>\n<div class=\"tl\">\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1917<\/div>\n<h3>Specification and design<\/h3>\n<p>The British Air Board calls for a heavy bomber to strike Germany. Vickers&#8217; Rex Pierson designs the F.B.27, named &#8220;Vimy&#8221; after the Battle of Vimy Ridge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">30 Nov 1917<\/div>\n<h3>First flight<\/h3>\n<p>The prototype Vimy flies for the first time, piloted by Captain Gordon Bell. Further prototypes test a range of engines.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">Nov 1918<\/div>\n<h3>Too late for the war<\/h3>\n<p>Only a handful of Vimys reach France by the Armistice of 11 November 1918; the type never flies a combat mission in the First World War.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">14&ndash;15 Jun 1919<\/div>\n<h3>First across the Atlantic<\/h3>\n<p>Alcock and Brown fly a modified Vimy non-stop from Newfoundland to Clifden, Ireland &mdash; the first non-stop transatlantic flight &mdash; winning the &pound;10,000 Daily Mail prize and knighthoods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">Nov&ndash;Dec 1919<\/div>\n<h3>First to Australia<\/h3>\n<p>Ross and Keith Smith, with Bennett and Shiers, fly the Vimy G-EAOU from England to Darwin in about 28 days &mdash; the first England-to-Australia flight.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">Feb&ndash;Mar 1920<\/div>\n<h3>The South Africa attempt<\/h3>\n<p>Van Ryneveld and Brand set out for Cape Town in the Vimy &#8220;Silver Queen&#8221;; after both Vimys are lost they finish in a substitute aircraft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1919&ndash;1925<\/div>\n<h3>RAF heavy bomber<\/h3>\n<p>The Vimy equips post-war RAF bomber squadrons at home and in the Middle East, while the Vimy Commercial and Vernon derivatives pioneer air transport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">to ~1929<\/div>\n<h3>Trainer and parachute aircraft<\/h3>\n<p>Relegated to second-line duties, Vimys serve as night-flying trainers and early parachute-training aircraft into the late 1920s.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tl-item\">\n<div class=\"yr\">1994&ndash;2005<\/div>\n<h3>The replica re-flies the routes<\/h3>\n<p>A modern airworthy Vimy replica re-creates all three pioneering flights &mdash; Australia, South Africa and the Atlantic &mdash; before retiring to Brooklands Museum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Stories &amp; Eyewitnesses<\/div>\n<h2>The Vickers Vimy in twelve stories: from Vimy Ridge to the Atlantic<\/h2>\n<div class=\"car\"><button class=\"cbtn p\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('stcar').scrollBy({left:-712,behavior:'smooth'})\" aria-label=\"Previous\">&#8249;<\/button><button class=\"cbtn n\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('stcar').scrollBy({left:712,behavior:'smooth'})\" aria-label=\"Next\">&#8250;<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"track\" id=\"stcar\">\n<div class=\"mscard\"><span class=\"tag\">1917 \u00b7 The name<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Named for a battle<\/h4>\n<p>The new Vickers bomber takes its name from the 1917 Battle of Vimy Ridge.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>Vickers gave its F.B.27 bomber the name &#8220;Vimy&#8221; in honour of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, the hard-fought Canadian-led victory of April 1917. It was a fashionable way of the time to link a new weapon to a recent feat of arms. The name would outlast the battle in public memory, because the aircraft that carried it went on to do things no battle honour could have predicted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\"><span class=\"tag\">30 Nov 1917 \u00b7 First flight<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>The prototype takes off<\/h4>\n<p>Captain Gordon Bell lifts the first Vimy off the ground.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>The first Vimy flew on 30 November 1917 in the hands of test pilot Captain Gordon Bell. It was a clean, well-proportioned biplane, and it flew well. Over the following months several prototypes explored different engine fits as Vickers hunted for a reliable powerplant; the Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII eventually became the standard, and with it the Vimy became the aircraft history remembers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\"><span class=\"tag\">Nov 1918 \u00b7 Too late<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>The war ends first<\/h4>\n<p>The Armistice arrives before the Vimy can go to war.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>The Vimy was meant to be the spearhead of a 1919 bombing campaign against Germany. But building and perfecting a large aircraft took time, and by the Armistice of 11 November 1918 only a very small number had reached France. None flew a combat mission. In an instant the Vimy went from being tomorrow&#8217;s war-winner to a superb bomber with no war to fight &mdash; a fact that would shape its entire legend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\"><span class=\"tag\">Spring 1919 \u00b7 The prize<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>The Atlantic beckons<\/h4>\n<p>The Daily Mail&#8217;s \u00a310,000 prize draws teams to Newfoundland.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>The London Daily Mail had offered \u00a310,000 to the first aviators to cross the Atlantic non-stop by air. With the war over, several teams shipped their aircraft to Newfoundland, the closest jumping-off point, and set about clearing fields to fly from. Vickers entered a Vimy, stripped of military gear and packed with extra fuel, and sent it out with pilot John Alcock and navigator Arthur Whitten Brown.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\"><span class=\"tag\">14 Jun 1919 \u00b7 Departure<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Wheels up from Newfoundland<\/h4>\n<p>Alcock and Brown launch into the Atlantic weather.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>On the afternoon of 14 June 1919, heavily loaded with fuel, the Vimy lifted off from Lester&#8217;s Field near St. John&#8217;s and turned east over the ocean. Ahead lay nearly two thousand miles of open water with no possibility of rescue if anything failed. Almost at once they flew into cloud and fog that would hide the horizon for most of the crossing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\"><span class=\"tag\">15 Jun 1919 \u00b7 Landfall<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Down in an Irish bog<\/h4>\n<p>After ~16 hours the Vimy reaches Ireland &mdash; nose-first.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>Through fog, ice and a near-fatal spin, the two men flew on by dead reckoning. Brown reportedly climbed out to clear ice from the engines. At last, after roughly sixteen hours, they crossed the Irish coast near Clifden and put down on what looked like a green field &mdash; Derrygimlagh bog. The Vimy sank in and tipped onto its nose, but both crew stepped out unhurt, the first men to fly the Atlantic non-stop.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\"><span class=\"tag\">Jun 1919 \u00b7 Knighthoods<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Heroes overnight<\/h4>\n<p>Alcock and Brown are knighted; the Vimy is world-famous.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>The flight was a sensation. Alcock and Brown collected the Daily Mail prize and were knighted by King George V within days. The transatlantic Vimy was preserved for the nation and is displayed today at the Science Museum in London. Tragedy followed the triumph: Sir John Alcock was killed in a flying accident in France only six months later, at the age of 27.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\"><span class=\"tag\">12 Nov 1919 \u00b7 To Australia<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>The Smith brothers set off<\/h4>\n<p>A Vimy leaves London bound for Darwin, half a world away.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>Barely five months after the Atlantic flight, another Vimy set out on an even longer journey. The Australian brothers Ross and Keith Smith, with mechanics Jim Bennett and Wally Shiers, took off from Hounslow Heath on 12 November 1919 to try for the Australian government&#8217;s \u00a310,000 prize for the first England-to-Australia flight, aiming to cover some eleven thousand miles within 30 days.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\"><span class=\"tag\">Nov\u2013Dec 1919 \u00b7 The long haul<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>Across the world in stages<\/h4>\n<p>France, Egypt, India, Singapore, the East Indies &mdash; then Australia.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>The Vimy G-EAOU &mdash; the crew joked the registration meant &#8220;God &#8216;Elp All Of Us&#8221; &mdash; flew east in short, punishing hops: across Europe to Cairo, on through Baghdad and Persia to India, then Burma, Siam, Singapore and the Dutch East Indies, fighting monsoon weather, rough fields and constant mechanical work. It was as much a feat of the two mechanics as of the pilots.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\"><span class=\"tag\">10 Dec 1919 \u00b7 Darwin<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>First to Australia<\/h4>\n<p>G-EAOU lands at Darwin inside the time limit.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>On 10 December 1919 the Vimy touched down at Darwin, completing the first flight from England to Australia within the 30-day limit. Ross and Keith Smith were both knighted and the crew shared the prize. Their aircraft, G-EAOU, survives to this day, preserved in a purpose-built hall at Adelaide Airport &mdash; a genuine original of one of aviation&#8217;s epic journeys.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\"><span class=\"tag\">1920 \u00b7 Silver Queen<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>The South Africa try<\/h4>\n<p>Two Vimys are lost on the way to Cape Town.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>The last of the great route-proving flights was the 1920 attempt to fly from England to South Africa. Van Ryneveld and Brand set out in the Vimy &#8220;Silver Queen&#8221;, but it was wrecked in Egypt; a second Vimy was wrecked near Bulawayo. They finished the journey to Cape Town in a substitute aircraft &mdash; so the Vimy&#8217;s name is attached to the flight even though no Vimy actually completed it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mscard\"><span class=\"tag\">1994\u20132005 \u00b7 The replica<\/span><\/p>\n<h4>History flown again<\/h4>\n<p>A modern Vimy replica re-flies all three routes.<\/p>\n<details>\n<summary>Read the full account<\/summary>\n<div class=\"full\">\n<p>In the 1990s a team led by Peter McMillan and Lang Kidby built an airworthy Vimy replica and set out to re-create the type&#8217;s pioneering journeys. They flew England to Australia in 1994, England to South Africa in 1999, and crossed the Atlantic in 2005 &mdash; repeating, in a faithful reproduction, the very flights that made the Vimy famous. The replica now rests at Brooklands Museum, where the originals were built.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Photo Gallery<\/div>\n<h2>The Vickers Vimy in photographs<\/h2>\n<div class=\"car\"><button class=\"cbtn p\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('gal').scrollBy({left:-712,behavior:'smooth'})\" aria-label=\"Previous\">&#8249;<\/button><button class=\"cbtn n\" onclick=\"document.getElementById('gal').scrollBy({left:712,behavior:'smooth'})\" aria-label=\"Next\">&#8250;<\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"track gal\" id=\"gal\">\n<figure class=\"ph\"><img data-opt-id=1470637066  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vickers-vimy-fb27-heavy-bomber-side-view-1918.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vickers-vimy-fb27-heavy-bomber-side-view-1918.jpg\" alt=\"Vickers Vimy F.B.27 heavy bomber, side view, circa 1918\"><figcaption>The Vickers Vimy (company designation F.B.27), Britain&#8217;s new twin-engine heavy bomber of 1917-18.<span>Photo: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"ph\"><img data-opt-id=22318824  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/john-alcock-vickers-vimy-newfoundland-1919.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/john-alcock-vickers-vimy-newfoundland-1919.jpg\" alt=\"Captain John Alcock stowing provisions aboard the Vickers Vimy, Newfoundland, June 1919\"><figcaption>Captain John Alcock stows provisions aboard the transatlantic Vimy at St. John&#8217;s, Newfoundland, 14 June 1919.<span>Photo: Elsie Holloway, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"ph\"><img data-opt-id=85214841  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vickers-vimy-alcock-brown-transatlantic-1919.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vickers-vimy-alcock-brown-transatlantic-1919.jpg\" alt=\"The Vickers Vimy used by Alcock and Brown for the first non-stop transatlantic flight\"><figcaption>The modified Vickers Vimy in which Alcock and Brown crossed the Atlantic non-stop in June 1919.<span>Photo: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"ph\"><img data-opt-id=1201939260  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/alcock-brown-vickers-vimy-clifden-bog-landing-1919.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/alcock-brown-vickers-vimy-clifden-bog-landing-1919.jpg\" alt=\"Alcock and Brown's Vickers Vimy nose-down in the bog at Clifden, Ireland, June 1919\"><figcaption>Alcock and Brown&#8217;s Vimy nose-down in Derrygimlagh bog near Clifden, Ireland, at the end of the first non-stop transatlantic flight, 15 June 1919.<span>Photo: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"ph\"><img data-opt-id=1967091276  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ross-keith-smith-vickers-vimy-g-eaou-england-australia-1919.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/ross-keith-smith-vickers-vimy-g-eaou-england-australia-1919.jpg\" alt=\"Ross and Keith Smith's Vickers Vimy G-EAOU, first England to Australia flight, 1919\"><figcaption>The Vickers Vimy G-EAOU flown by Ross and Keith Smith on the first England-to-Australia flight, November-December 1919.<span>Photo: State Library of Queensland, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"ph\"><img data-opt-id=1423571169  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vickers-vimy-g-eaou-preserved-adelaide-airport.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vickers-vimy-g-eaou-preserved-adelaide-airport.jpg\" alt=\"Ross Smith's Vickers Vimy G-EAOU preserved at Adelaide Airport, Australia\"><figcaption>The original Ross Smith Vimy G-EAOU, preserved in its memorial hall at Adelaide Airport, South Australia.<span>Photo: Alec Wilson, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"ph\"><img data-opt-id=700114410  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/alcock-brown-vickers-vimy-science-museum-london.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/alcock-brown-vickers-vimy-science-museum-london.jpg\" alt=\"Alcock and Brown's transatlantic Vickers Vimy preserved at the Science Museum, London\"><figcaption>Alcock and Brown&#8217;s actual transatlantic Vimy, preserved at the Science Museum, London.<span>Photo: In Vitrio, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"ph\"><img data-opt-id=177325062  data-opt-src=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vickers-vimy-commercial-airliner-1920.jpg\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20viewBox%3D%220%200%20100%%20100%%22%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20xmlns%3D%22http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%22%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%22100%%22%20height%3D%22100%%22%20fill%3D%22transparent%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-full=\"https:\/\/ml5psubhxdln.i.optimole.com\/cb:78--.b845\/w:auto\/h:auto\/q:96\/f:best\/https:\/\/migflug.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vickers-vimy-commercial-airliner-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Vickers Vimy Commercial airliner of 1920 at the Science Museum, London\"><figcaption>The Vickers Vimy Commercial, the enlarged airliner derivative of the bomber (1920).<span>Photo: Andrea Boano, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">On Film<\/div>\n<h2>The Vickers Vimy on film: the bomber that conquered the Atlantic<\/h2>\n<div class=\"vidwrap\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/h6WC2l48BDU\" title=\"The Aircraft That Conquered The Atlantic | Vickers Vimy (Rex's Hangar)\" loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p class=\"credit\">&#8220;The Aircraft That Conquered The Atlantic &mdash; Vickers Vimy&#8221;, Rex&#8217;s Hangar (aviation-history documentary channel), roughly 121,000 views at the time of writing. Chosen as a dedicated, well-researched account of the type.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Operations Map<\/div>\n<h2>Where the Vickers Vimy was built, flew and survives<\/h2>\n<p>Britain designed and built it; then, stripped of its guns, it traced the first great long-distance air-routes of the world &mdash; across the Atlantic, out to Australia, and towards South Africa &mdash; before serving the RAF and, finally, coming to rest in museums. 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Vimy flight anywhere. Two genuine Vimys survive as museum exhibits &mdash; Alcock and Brown&#8217;s transatlantic aircraft in London and the Smith brothers&#8217; G-EAOU in Adelaide &mdash; and a modern airworthy replica flew for years before retiring to a museum. None of them is available for passenger flights, and MiGFlug does not operate Vimy flights.<\/p>\n<p>What you <strong>can<\/strong> do is experience real military flight in aircraft that still fly. MiGFlug puts civilians in the cockpit of genuine jets &mdash; from the L-39 Albatros to supersonic fighters &mdash; for aerobatics, high-g manoeuvres and edge-of-space flights. If the Vimy&#8217;s story sparked your interest in aviation, start here: <a href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">migflug.com\/flights-prices<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What was the Vickers Vimy?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>It was a British twin-engined heavy bomber designed by Vickers late in the First World War. It is most famous not for bombing but for pioneering long-distance flights &mdash; in 1919 Vimys made the first non-stop transatlantic flight and the first flight from England to Australia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Did the Vickers Vimy fight in World War I?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>No. Although it was designed as a bomber to strike Germany, the Vimy entered service too late. Only a handful had reached France by the Armistice of November 1918, and the type never flew a combat mission in the war. Its fame rests almost entirely on its post-war record flights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Who flew the first non-stop transatlantic flight in a Vickers Vimy?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>Captain John Alcock (pilot) and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown (navigator) flew a modified Vimy non-stop from St. John&#8217;s, Newfoundland, to a bog near Clifden, Ireland, on 14&ndash;15 June 1919 &mdash; about sixteen hours in the air. They won the &pound;10,000 Daily Mail prize and were both knighted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Which Vickers Vimy flew from England to Australia?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>A standard Vimy registered G-EAOU, flown by the Australian brothers Ross and Keith Smith with mechanics Jim Bennett and Wally Shiers. They left London on 12 November 1919 and reached Darwin on 10 December 1919, flying about 11,000 miles in roughly 28 days &mdash; the first England-to-Australia flight. That aircraft is preserved in Adelaide.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Did a Vickers Vimy fly from England to South Africa?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>Not all the way. In 1920 Van Ryneveld and Brand set out for Cape Town in the Vimy &#8220;Silver Queen&#8221;, but both it and a replacement Vimy were wrecked en route. They completed the journey in a substitute aircraft, so strictly speaking no Vimy finished the England-to-South-Africa flight, even though the attempt is part of the type&#8217;s story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>What engines did the Vickers Vimy use?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>Production Vimys used two Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII V-12 engines of about 360 hp each. Some prototypes and variants tested other engines &mdash; Hispano-Suiza, Sunbeam Maori, Salmson, Fiat and the American Liberty &mdash; but the reliable Eagle became standard, and its dependability was key to the record flights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How many Vickers Vimys were built?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>Figures vary between sources, but the total is commonly cited as somewhere around 200 to 240 aircraft across bomber and derivative versions. The Vimy also spawned the enlarged Vimy Commercial airliner and the Vernon military transport.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>Do any Vickers Vimys survive?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>Yes &mdash; unusually for an aircraft of its age. Alcock and Brown&#8217;s transatlantic Vimy is at the Science Museum in London, and the Smith brothers&#8217; G-EAOU is preserved at Adelaide Airport in Australia. A full-scale replica bomber is also displayed in Britain, and a separate airworthy replica re-flew all three pioneering routes in the 1990s and 2000s before retiring to Brooklands Museum.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/details>\n<details>\n<summary>How fast was the Vickers Vimy, and how big?<\/summary>\n<div class=\"a\">\n<p>It was a load-carrier, not a racer: top speed around 160 km\/h (about 100 mph), a wingspan of roughly 20.75 m (68 ft) and a crew of about three. 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alt=\"Lockheed F-104 Starfighter side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the F-104 Starfighter<\/b><span>\u201cThe missile with a man in it\u201d<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/mig-21-launch\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21 side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the MiG-21<\/b><span>The Cold War\u2019s most-produced jet<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/t-33-in-canada\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the T-33 Shooting Star<\/b><span>America\u2019s first jet trainer<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/vampire-flight-near-london\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"de Havilland Vampire side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the DH Vampire<\/b><span>A piece of early jet history<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/s-211-jet-flight-munich\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"SIAI-Marchetti S.211 side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the S.211<\/b><span>Agile Italian jet trainer<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/l-39-mb-326-jet-provost-in-italy\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"Aermacchi MB-326 side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the MB-326<\/b><span>The classic Aermacchi jet<\/span><\/a><a class=\"flycard\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/mig-15-fagot-czech-republic\/\"><span class=\"fico\"><img data-opt-id=791639987  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alt=\"Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 side profile\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\"><\/span><b>Fly the MiG-15<\/b><span>The Soviet legend of the Korean War<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"btn\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/flights-prices\/\">See all fighter jet flights<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Related Aircraft<\/div>\n<h2>Explore more of the Book of Beasts<\/h2>\n<div class=\"relgrid\"><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/handley-page-o-400\/\"><span class=\"rk\">British bomber, WWI<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Handley Page O\/400<\/span><span class=\"rp\">Britain&#8217;s principal heavy night bomber of WWI &mdash; the older giant the Vimy was built to replace.<\/span><span class=\"go\">View aircraft<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/gotha-g-v\/\"><span class=\"rk\">German bomber, WWI<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Gotha G.V<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The German heavy bomber that raided London &mdash; the aircraft the Vimy&#8217;s bombing role was meant to answer.<\/span><span class=\"go\">View aircraft<\/span><\/a><a class=\"rel\" href=\"https:\/\/migflug.com\/aircraft\/se-5a\/\"><span class=\"rk\">British fighter, WWI<\/span><span class=\"rh\">Royal Aircraft Factory S.E.5a<\/span><span class=\"rp\">The fast, steady British scout that helped win command of the daylight sky over the Western Front.<\/span><span class=\"go\">View aircraft<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"divider\"><\/div>\n<section class=\"wrap\">\n<div class=\"kicker\">Sources &amp; Further Reading<\/div>\n<h2>Where these Vickers Vimy facts come from<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"srclist\">\n<li>Science Museum, London &mdash; Alcock and Brown&#8217;s Vickers Vimy.<span>Holds and documents the actual first-transatlantic aircraft.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Royal Air Force Museum &mdash; Vickers Vimy type history.<span>National museum of the RAF; Vimy service and derivatives.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Imperial War Museums (IWM) &mdash; Alcock and Brown, 1919.<span>Photographs and records of the transatlantic flight.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>State Library of South Australia \/ History Trust of South Australia &mdash; Ross Smith&#8217;s Vimy G-EAOU.<span>The preserved England&ndash;Australia aircraft in Adelaide.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Australian War Memorial &mdash; the 1919 England-to-Australia flight.<span>Records of the Smith brothers&#8217; journey.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Brooklands Museum &mdash; Vickers and the airworthy Vimy replica.<span>On the site where the Vimy was built; home of the replica.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>National Museum of Flight (Scotland) &mdash; Vimy and early aviation.<span>Reference on the type and its record flights.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum &mdash; early long-distance flight.<span>Context on the 1919&ndash;20 pioneering flights.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Flight archive (contemporary reporting).<span>Period coverage of the Vimy and its record flights.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Rex&#8217;s Hangar &mdash; &#8220;The Aircraft That Conquered The Atlantic: Vickers Vimy&#8221; (video).<span>Dedicated documentary overview of the type.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"finenote\">Specifications, production totals, dates, crew figures and flight distances vary between sources; contested and estimated values are flagged in the text. In particular, the Vimy saw no First World War combat, and no Vimy completed the 1920 England&ndash;South Africa flight. Images are public domain or freely licensed via Wikimedia Commons, credited individually. 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