Whatever happened to Alcock & brown's Vimy? It used to be in the Science Museum in London.

Apparently FedEx and UPS don't go to St. John's. :D

According the Science Museum's site - it's still on display.

Word just in from Newfoundland - the Vimy crew has scheduled a transatlantic departure for tomorrow, July 2, 2005 at 7 p.m. NFLD time - with an approximate arrival in Ireland at 4 or 5 p.m., Ireland time, on July 3, 2005.

This just in......................

For Immediate Release:


Vimy to Depart St. John’s, Newfoundland Saturday, July 2, 2005

July 1, 2005: The Vickers Vimy is scheduled to depart from the IMP Hangar, off Torbay Road, St. John’s International Airport at 7:00 PM Newfoundland time (5:30 pm Eastern), Saturday, July 2, 2005, bound for Clifden Ireland.

Piloted by renowned aviator Steve Fossett, and co-pilot and navigator, Mark Rebholz, the Vimy will re-create the historic first non-stop transatlantic flight by John Alcock and Arthur Whitten Brown in 1919.

The flight is expected to take 18 – 20 hours with the Vimy landing at Connemara Championship Golf Links in Clifden, County Galway, Ireland.

A brief press conference will be held beginning at 6:00 PM Newfoundland time at the IMP Hangar. The general public is invited to attend the press conference and to see the Vimy off on its re-creation of this great event in aviation history. Doors to the hangar will open at 5:00 PM. Media are asked to attend the Press Conference, as no individual interviews will be scheduled prior to departure.

Following its departure from St. John’s Airport, the Vimy will be visible as it flies toward Signal Hill and the Narrows making its way due-east out over the Atlantic Ocean.

Two American adventurers have left Newfoundland in a Vickers Vimy biplane replica, on a long-delayed attempt to recreate the first transatlantic flight.


Millionaire adventurer Steve Fossett, 60, and co-pilot Mark Rebholz, 52, battled high winds as they lifted off from St. John's International Airport shortly after 7 p.m. NDT on Saturday

CBC

They made it!


http://www.clifdenchamber.com/vimywatch.htm


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Saw a nice overhead photo of the Vimy landing on the golf course. I was hoping there would be more information on the details of the flight itself, but I haven't found any. Reserved for the documentary?

Where has the Vimy been this weekend (9/10 July) ?

Just saw it heading west across West Sussex about 6pm.

Amazing sight, just wish I`d got the camera faster

Now based at Dunsfold for at least the next few weeks.,

Original Vimy G-EAOU in Adelaide, South Australia
 

Tucked away in a building in the carpark at Adelaide Airport is the Vickers Vimy flown from England to Australia in 1919 by Capt Ross Smith MC DFC AFC, his brother Lt Keith Smith and mechanics Sgt J M Bennett AFM MSM and Sgt W H Shiers MSM. It's worth a look next time anyone is way down here.

I'm new here - if anyone can tell me how to post a pic on this forum, I'll do so.