Shot down and burning, the Wellington bomber seemed doomed—until Pilot James Allen Ward risked everything to fight the fire ...

At its peak the factory, run by Vickers Armstrong for the Ministry of Aircraft Production, was churning out 28 Wellington bombers a week. Today, it makes the giant wings of the Airbus A380.

The 1944 Wellington, one of only two remaining, will form the focal point of a new Bomber Command exhibition at RAF Museum Midlands in Cosford, Shropshire, next week.

The Vickers Wellington was quite advanced for the time but was quickly outdated as newer aircraft were introduced. It was powered by twin 1050hp Bristol Pegasus XVIII engines, which gave the ...

Vickers created the Wellington Bomber, which served throughout WWII, using a pioneering lattice-structure design. The crew of the restored plane had to ditch the aircraft because of engine failure ...

On August 29 1941, Reynolds and his crew took off from Oakington, near Cambridge, in their Wellington bomber of 101 Squadron to attack Hamburg. It was Reynolds’s first operation as the aircraft ...

Wellington production line circa 1943 (Image: Airbus). By pre-assembling certain parts of the aircraft, Broughton workers built the Wellington in just 23 hours and 48 minutes, smashing through a ...

Geodetic design was subsequently applied to the Wellington Bomber. Though this construction method took longer than monocoque techniques, they resulted in robust aircraft.

Such was life aboard a Wellington bomber hunting for the elusive U-boats in the Atlantic Ocean in 1945 during World War ... a Beaufort Bomber aircraft took off from Busselton's air force base in WA.

At its peak the factory, run by Vickers Armstrong for the Ministry of Aircraft Production, was churning out 28 Wellington bombers a week. Today, it makes the giant wings of the Airbus A380.

The Vickers Wellington (LN514) was a long range, twin-engine bomber produced by Vickers-Armstrong Limited during the Second World War. Known for its superior durability, it was the most mass ...

In the midst of World War II, workers at a Welsh aircraft factory gave up their weekend off to build a Wellington bomber from scratch in just 24 hours. Why? To set a new world record. With the ...