The Vickers Swallow was a supersonic aircraft project led by the engineer Barnes Wallis at Vickers-Armstrongs. It was a wing-controlled aerodyne, steered in flight by moving the whole variable-geometry delta wing instead of using a fin and rudder, and was the supersonic successor to the Wild Goose project. Several remotely piloted research vehicles were built and flown, alongside ground tests of static models. The full-size aircraft was imagined first as a very long range airliner able to fly non-stop from Britain to Australia, then as a supersonic successor to the Vickers Valiant bomber under Specification OR.330. Government funding was withdrawn in June 1957 and the project was cancelled.
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