English heavy bomber Vickers “Vimy” IV
The first Vickers FB27 Vimi bomber prototype took to the sky on November 30, 1917. In 1918, it was decided to start its mass production, and in October one aircraft was transferred to France to participate in hostilities. However, the “Vimi” fame brought extra-long flights after the end of the First World War. So, in July 1919, Captain Sir John William Alcock and Lieutenant Sir Arthur Whitten Brown on a modernized Vimy for the first time in the world made a non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.
FROG released a kit for assembling a large-scale Vimi model of Alcock and Brown in 1964, and a kit for assembling a model of a Vimi bomber in 1973. In 1978, the latter appeared on sale in NOVO packaging.