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This is the Handley Page Victor, the famous British Cold War Strategic Bomber/Tanker that I made with LEGO bricks.

After I built the Vickers Valiant (the first of the “V-Bombers”) in Micro-scale, I decided to build the Handley Page Victor as well which was the last Strategic Bomber developed by the United Kingdom during the Cold War to enter service.

While the Valiant used a slightly swept wing to achieve high speeds, the Victor used a revolutionary crescent-shaped swept wing, based on the ideas developed by German scientists during the Second World War.

For a short period of time, the Victor was able to fly higher and faster than many first generation fighters.

However, with the development of Surface to Air Missiles like the SA-2 Guideline, it became a suicide mission to fly over Soviet territory (even at high altitudes), so the Victor started to perform low altitude missions to evade radar detection.
This however led to extensive metal fatigue, which forced the Victor´s removal from the Strategic Bombing role. The airframes were then converted into Strategic Tankers and reconnaissance planes, a role that it performed extremely well until 1993.

During it´s long service as a tanker, it was used to refuel the Avro Vulcan bomber that performed the Black Buck raids against the Falklands as well as refuel Tornado Strike Planes during the First Gulf War.

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Eínon

Taken on: March 2, 2020

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ISO:	100
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Flash:	Off, Did not fire
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