The name is on the tip of my….

:very_drunk: Have a beer, close enough.

😀 Hic!

K107 was the prototype Vickers Vimy Commercial, making its first flight on 13th. April 1919 at Joyce Green Airport in Kent. Initially it bore the interim civilian registration K 107. It was then allocated the civilian registration G-EAAV.

This aircraft was used on an attempt on the Cairo to Cape Town record with a prize of £10,000 from the Daily Mail. Flown by Vickers pilots S,Cockerell and F.C.G Broome it crashed at Tabora, Tanganyika on 27th. Feb. 1920

B**ger!

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:very_drunk: Have a beer, close enough.

:rolleyes:Me too!

B**ger!

🙂

Close, but not quite. That’s K-107, the prototype Vickers Vimy Commercial – the only one of the family to have round cabin windows.

Edit:
OK, the Vernon is basically the military version. 😉

For the first time ever in the 10 years I’ve been on this forum I got one right…and first!!! 🙂

TT

Vickers Vernon!

Vickers Vernon?