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==In popular culture== * The Wellington was nicknamed the ''Wimpy'' by RAF personnel, after the portly [[J. Wellington Wimpy]] character from the ''[[Popeye the Sailor (film series)|Popeye]]'' cartoons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wellingtonaviation.org/docs/wimpy.htm|title=Wellington Aviation Museum: The Vickers Wellington|access-date=28 May 2018|archive-date=28 July 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728173842/http://www.wellingtonaviation.org/docs/wimpy.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref> * ''[[Nebeští jezdci]]'' ("Riders in the Sky") (1968), about a [[Czechoslovakia]]n bomber crew in the RAF, based on the real operations of [[No. 311 Squadron RAF]].<ref>Kucera, Pawel. "Recreating a Wimpy". ''Aeroplane Monthly'', September 2001. pp. 72–75.</ref> * ''[[Pastoral (1944 novel)|Pastoral]]'', a 1944 novel by the author [[Nevil Shute]] about the crew of a Wellington * ''[[Target for Tonight]]'' (1941), a documentary about a Wellington on a raid over Germany. * ''Worker's Week-End'' (1943), a documentary [[newsreel]] about the construction of [[Vickers Wellington LN514]] in record time. * ''[[One of Our Aircraft is Missing]]'', a 1942 British [[war film]] about the crew of a Wellington forced down in the Netherlands. * A straight on the [[Silverstone Circuit]] is named the Wellington Straight in reference to the type being based at what was then named [[RAF Silverstone]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.formula1.com/en/latest/features/2015/7/what_s-in-a-name--the-history-behind-silverstones-iconic-corners.html|title=What's in a name? The history behind Silverstone's iconic corners|date=3 July 2015|access-date=6 August 2022|publisher= Formula One World Championship Limited}}</ref> * ''G – for Genevieve'' and ''L for Lucy,'' both about fictional Polish bomber crews in the RAF during World War II, by [[Janusz Meissner]]
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