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From: Ronald van Riet
Date: 2013 Jun 30, 10:02 -0700
The French magazine this month features an article on the Vickers Viking/Valetta/Varsity series of aircraft and two of the photographs sincluded ar of interest to this group.
The first one shows a Vickers 664 Valetta T. Mk. 3 used for training navigators and if you look carefully, you will notice no fewer than six astrodomes. This variant is described in Vickers Aircraft Since 1908 (Putnam, a sister publication tot he Boeing publication I mentioned in an earlier post) where a three view drawing is showsn which I am also including here.
The second photograph shows a Varsity T. Mk. 1 with a bubble sextant clearly visible in the astrodome. Would this be a Mk. IX (A or B)? Or has anyone any idea if the Brits used any of the American post-WWII bubble sextants?
To give proper credit: both photographs have the annotation DR/Coll. Jacques Guillem
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