I don’t think revolutionary is the word, especially since the day of the pusher fighter had come and gone, while Vickers continued trying to sell them long after they had become obsolete. Indeed, Vickers, as a massive arms manufacturer for whom aircraft were a minor sideline, never did anything even remotely revolutionary, and all of their efforts went into trying to sell obsolete designs. The closest they ever came was with the Barnes’ geodesic construction, and even that was too late for anyone to want to copy it.
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