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First flight of Britain's Handley Page Victor strategic bomber.
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Handley Page Victor
British strategic bomber and tanker aircraft
The Handley Page Victor was a British jet-powered strategic bomber developed and produced by Handley Page during the Cold War. It was the third and final V bomber to be operated by the Royal Air Force (RAF), the other two being the Vickers Valiant and the Avro Vulcan. Entering…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Strategic bomber
Type of military aircraft
A strategic bomber is a medium-to-long-range penetration bomber aircraft designed to drop large amounts of air-to-ground weaponry onto a distant target for the purposes of debilitating the enemy's capacity to wage war. Unlike tactical bombers, penetrators, fighter-bombers, and…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)