Name that Plane XIX

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Name that Plane XIX

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Well, since that last one was so DAMN easy, how's about this one:



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Terminus,

It looks like a Vickers Vimy.
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Not just A Vimy, but the take-off of the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean on 6/14/1919, piloted by British aviators Captain John Alcock and Lieutenant Arthur Whitten Brown. Landed safely in Ireland 16 hours later.
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They got a lot of balls taking off over the Atlantic in that piece of crap. They don't even have floats on the plane [&:] Guess they couldn't handle the weight/drag.
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There was money involved in it, too. A British newspaper had put up £10,000 in reward, which was a lot of money in those days...

And BTW, the Vimy was a bomber.
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