Vickers Type C

The Vickers Type C was a proposed British bomber for the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. Vickers put forward two versions of the design. The first proposal, from late 1942, placed vertical stabilizers at the wingtips, but those were rejected because the arrangement actually made the aircraft unstable. The second proposal, from early 1943, used a single fin instead. The specifications given for the type describe a very large machine with a wingspan of 210 feet and six Bristol Centaurus engines, intended to carry one 56,000 lb bomb. The aircraft never entered production and survives only as a design proposal.