39K views · 3.5K reactions | Rapid evolution! 1919 Vickers Vimy the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic, taking off from Newfoundland Canada and crash landing in an Irish peat bog 15 hrs and 57 minutes later. 50 years later 1969 Hawker Siddeley Harrier XV741 takes off vertical from the centre of London and 5 hrs 57 mins later lands vertically in New York. #progress | Jet Art Aviation Ltd | Facebook

In the 1930s, the Vickers Type S Cannon was the best way to shoot down an aircraft💥 🎯Firing at two rounds a second, seven seconds worth of firepower and 40mm rounds 🧐Now one of these weapons sits in a massive collection of airborne artefacts | Forces News

AVRO LANCASTER B.Mk.1 'R5868' was built by Metropolitan-Vickers at its Mosley Road works, Manchester and delivered to No. 83 Squadron, RAF Scampton, Lincs, June 42. Filmed at RAF Museum London, England. | World War II Aircraft