The Vickers-Wibault construction method was based on the patents of Michel Wibault, who began working with Vickers in 1922. It was a way of producing an all-metal aircraft with an airframe built up from simple, non-machined metal shapes, covered by very thin (0.4 mm or 0.016 in) corrugated light alloy sheets. On the wings the corrugations were aligned along the chord and longitudinally on he fuselage. The resulting fuselage was not a monocoque, but was internally braced, and the skin on the wings was not stressed. Panels were riveted to each other and to the underlying structure. Vickers first experience of the method was with the licence built Wibault Scout. The first Vickers design using this construction was the Vireo.