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VISUAL DESCRIPTION
This is a vintage advertisement featuring three British military aircraft: the Vickers Valiant, Supermarine Swift, and Supermarine Attacker. At the top of the image, we see the Vickers Valiant in flight—a sleek bomber with swept wings indicative of early jet age design. Below are two fighters; on top is the delta-winged Supermarine Swift followed by the earlier-generation Supermarine Attacker with straight wings and a tailwheel landing gear configuration. The caption below these images reads "DESIGNED AND PRODUCED BY VICKERS POWERED BY ROLLS-ROYCE, " indicating that these aircraft were manufactured by Vickers-Armstrongs Limited's Aircraft Division located in Weybridge, Surrey, and equipped with engines from Rolls-Royce—two giants of British aerospace engineering at that time. The text further emphasizes pride in Britain's aviation heritage by stating "The new generation of British fighters and bombers will uphold the traditions established throughout the free world by the Spitfire, the Seafire and Wellington. " This positions these modern (for their time) aircraft as successors to some of World War II's most renowned British planes—the Spitfire fighter, its naval counterpart Seafire, and Wellington bomber—thereby invoking a legacy of quality and performance.
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