Vickers Vimy
The Vickers Vimy is a British twin-engined biplane heavy bomber designed by Rex Pierson and first flown on 30 November 1917. Built to bomb targets in Germany, it reached the RAF too late to fight in the First World War, but became the service's main heavy bomber of the early 1920s and found lasting fame in 1919, when Vimys made the first non-stop crossing of the Atlantic and the first flight from England to Australia. Wartime orders ran past 1,000 aircraft, though only a fraction of that total was ever completed, and the last examples left use in the 1930s.