Vickers VIM

Infobox Aircraft
name = VIM


caption =
type = Trainer
national origin = United Kingdom
manufacturer = Vickers
designer =
first flight =
introduction = 1920
retired =
status =
primary user = China
more users =
produced =
number built = 35
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developed from = Royal Aircraft Factory F.E.2
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The VIM or Vickers Instructional Machine was a trainer biplane aircraft built for China by Vickers from war-surplus stocks of F.E.2d parts, powered by a surplus Rolls Royce Eagle engine, but fitted with an entirely new nacelle, providing dual controls for the pupil and instructor. Thirty-five were built and supplied from 1920.

Operators

;China as ROC

pecifications (VIM)

aircraft specifications
plane or copter?=plane
jet or prop?=prop

ref=Vickers Aircraft since 1908 Andrews and Morgan 1988, p.482.]
crew=2
capacity=
payload main=
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length main= 32 ft 4 in
length alt= 9.86 m
span main= 47 ft 8 in
span alt= 14.53 m
height main= 12 ft 4 in Flight, January 6 1921, p.5.]
height alt= 3.76 m
area main= 488 ft²
area alt= 45.3 m²
airfoil=
empty weight main= 2,950 lb
empty weight alt= 1,341 kg
loaded weight main= 3,654 lb
loaded weight alt= 1,661 kg
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engine (prop)= Rolls-Royce Eagle VIII
type of prop=liquid cooled V-12 piston engine
number of props=1
power main= 360 hp
power alt= 269 kW
power original=
propeller or rotor?=propellor
propellers=Four bladed
number of propellers per engine=1
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max speed main= 87 knots
max speed alt= 100 mph, 161 km/h
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never exceed speed main=
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