Old Photograph of 1950s VX 574 - Vickers Valetta RAF Malta

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This aircraft took part in an airshow on 14 September 1957 at RAF Ta’ Qal, Malta where The Malta Communications and Target Towing Squadron put up a flypast of three of its types: a Beaufighter , a Vickers Valetta and a Percival Pembroke The aircraft name Valetta is a corrupted title derived from the name Valletta, the capital city of the Maltese islands. The British had a way to alter a title of a place for their convenience of preferential pronunciation just like they did with the “Ta’Qali airfield” which they altered to “Ta’Kali airfield” to solve the phonetic pronunciation of the letter ‘Q’. How did the title Valetta originate? The origin comes from Gean Parisott de La Vallette.

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Size: 3600px × 2329px
Location: England, UK
Photo credit: © MediaWorldImages / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

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