Vickers Windsor
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The Vickers Windsor or Type 447 was a four-engined British heavy bomber design of World War Two, designed by Barnes Wallis and R.K. Pierson at Vickers-Armstrongs.
Notable features of the Windsor included its pressurised crew compartment, four mainwheel struts (each extending from one of the engine nacelles and carrying a single balloon-tyred wheel), elliptical planform high aspect ratio wings, and guns mounted in barbettes at the rear of each (outboard) nacelle, which were to be remotely operated by a gunner in the rear turret. The Windsor also used the geodetic body and wing structure that Wallis had employed in the Wellesley and Wellington bombers.
The first prototype flew in October 1943. Only three examples (the original plus successive prototypes Type 457 and Type 461) were built in total due to refinements in the existing Lancaster bomber rendering it suitable for the role for which the Windsor had been designed.
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