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Rex Pierson
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<p>Reginald Kirshaw "Rex" Pierson <a href="/facts/Order_of_the_British_Empire/HlY9buuN">CBE</a> (9 February 1891 – 10 January 1948) was an <a href="/facts/English_people/IeI9c7BK">English</a> aircraft designer and chief designer at <a href="/facts/Vickers_Limited/aWsG6Aso">Vickers Limited</a> later <a href="/facts/Vickers-Armstrongs/Xb6osoo8">Vickers-Armstrongs</a> Aircraft Ltd. He was responsible for the <a href="/facts/Vickers_Vimy/m6PYItSL">Vickers Vimy</a>, a heavy bomber designed during World War I and the first aircraft to cross the Atlantic non-stop. He was the chief designer of the <a href="/facts/Vickers_Wellington/LU8KTDm0">Vickers Wellington</a> bomber of World War II. </p>