Corgi AA39404 Vickers Valiant B(PR) Mk.I Royal Air Force WZ399 No543 Squadron, Wyton, Cambridgeshire, January 1957.

This item is in immaculate condition throughout.

Designed for use as a high-level strategic bomber, the Vickers Valiant was first flown on May 18, 1951. This four-jet bomber was used in the RAF's V bomber force, first as a bomber and later as a tanker. A Valiant B.1 was the first RAF aircraft to drop an operational British atomic bomb (a test bomb dropped in October 1956). Valiants were originally used for high-level bombing, but increasing SAM threats forced the V bombers to train for low-level bombing-a role that the Valiant could not adjust to. The aluminium alloy used in its construction caused premature fatigue at low altitudes, and the Valiant fleet was grounded in early 1965.

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