Vickers Armstrong VA-3
Vickers VA-3 Service Memorabilia, First Day Certificates and Trials
Images kindly sent by Nick Gurney
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Stop Press! Not for publication please, until July 20th 1962. Hovercraft uses TV as "Rear mirror"; from the Pye Group, Cambridge. |
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Preparing for the first flights Note to Editors and Journalists from Vickers-Armstrong Ltd., 18th July 1962 |
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Congratulations! A certificate signed by the captain of the first flight out by VA-3 from Rhyl to Wallasey; certifying Mr. Harry Parry, chairman of Tourism at Rhyl UDC, as having travelled by VA-3 "Hovercoach" across the Dee estuary. |
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Welcome to Rhyl! A group of officials including Mr. Harry Parry (in white) greet the crew of VA3-001 upon its arrival at Rhyl in 1962. |
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Ready Prepared for trial at Itchen, one of the bases of Vickers-Armstrong Ltd. |
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Full speed ahead High-speed trials on the Solent |
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Cross-waves The VA.3 on choppy seas undergoing cross-tide trials |
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Cruising Cruising off Netley Beach |
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Amphibian The VA-3 proves its true amphibian nature using its two turbo-props to get it onto land |
Page updated: Monday, August 29, 2011