Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / F.Prins - Birth of a Classic

Series 701 G-ALWF as preserved by the Duxford Aviation Society at Duxford, in the colours of Cambrian Airways. ‘Whisky Fox’ served with Cambrian from 1966 until retirement in 1971.

Aeroplane Monthly 1978-10 / Vickers Viscount 701 /Preservation Profile/ (66)

Мировая Авиация 66

Viscount 708. Самолет F-BGNK - первый Viscount, поставленный на экспорт, - был передан авиакомпании "Air France" 18 мая 1953 года. Кроме того, это один из немногих самолетов данного типа, потерпевших катастрофу, - в 1956 году машина врезалась в землю около Парижа во время тренировочного полета.

Air Enthusiast 1972-10 / ??? - The 40-year-old newcomer: British Caledonian Airways

One of the three Vickers Viscount 732s acquired by Hunting-Clan but used only briefly by that company in own colors.

Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / F.Prins - Birth of a Classic

Series 744 XR801 of the Empire Test Pilots School, Farnborough. Previously with All Nippon Airways, XR801 served with ETPS 1962-1971.

Aviation Historian 24 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (1)

Viscount V.745D N7447 (c/n 203) was delivered to Capital on October 29, 1956, acquiring Fleet No 366. The registration on the fin was relocated in larger type on the rear fuselage in 1958 in line with new FAA regulations.

Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / F.Prins - Birth of a Classic

Series 745D VH-TVO ‘David Lindsay ’ of Trans-Australia Airlines. The aircraft was leased 1959-1959, going on to join Philippine Airlines.

Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / F.Prins - Birth of a Classic

Series 749 YV-C-AMX of Linea Aeropostal Venezolana, Venezuela. It served from 1956 until 1971.

Aviation Historian 26 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (3)

Northeast lost only one Viscount, N6592C (c/n 234), which was written off in a (miraculously non-fatal) accident at Boston on November 15, 1961, when National Airlines DC-6B N8228H smashed into the back of the just-landed Viscount during the DC-6’s uncleared take-off run, shearing off the Viscount’s tailplane and outer wing.

Aviation Historian 25 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (2)

The first of Continental’s 15 V812s was N240V (c/n 353), which made its maiden flight on February 14, 1958, and was delivered to the airline that May, named Los Angeles. It was sold to the Tennessee Gas Transmission Corp in August 1960.

Мировая Авиация 249

Самолет Viscount стал героем одной из главных «историй успеха» британской авиапромышленности и первым серийным пассажирским авиалайнером с турбовинтовыми двигателями. Компания «Lufthansa» эксплуатировала девять Viscount 814, которые летали на европейских авиалиниях в 1958-1971 годах.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-06 / D.Middleton - G.R. "Jock" Bryce /Test Pilot Profile/ (16)

The prototype Vickers Viscount, G-AHRF, in plain metal at the time of its first flight, which took place from Wisley on July 16, 1948 with Bryce acting as second pilot to “Mutt" Summers.

Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / F.Prins - Birth of a Classic

Viscount prototype G-AHRF on July 16 at Wisley just before the first flight. George Edwards is in the centre in front of No.3 engine, right hand to his ear!

Aviation Historian 34 / R.Pegram - BOAC & the Brabazon committee

Although the deliberations and actions undertaken by the Brabazon Committee - and, importantly, the government - are often regarded as representing a loss of precious time and initiative, there was an undoubted success in Vickers’ development of the Viscount turboprop, the prototype of which, G-AHRF, is seen here in 1948.

Aviation Historian 33 / K.Hayward - "A melancholy story of delays, dissapointments and retardations..."

By some margin the most successful of the designs that could trace their heritage back to the Brabazon Committee, the Vickers Viscount turboprop was the result of a mating of state-of-the-art aircraft design and cutting-edge powerplant technology for the Committee’s Type IIB (i) category. The prototype, G-AHRF, made its first flight on July 16, 1948.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - 1. Chronology

Prototype Vickers Viscount (16 July 1948).

Aeroplane Monthly 1986-09 / ??? - At last! the 1948 show

“Mutt” Summers lands G-AHRF, the prototype Viscount.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-09 / Farnborough 1949

One-third the size of the Brabazon, Vickers Type 630 Viscount prototype G-AHRF was the progenitor of a far more successful line. It was flown by G. R. “Jock” Bryce, who displayed it with both port propellers feathered and impressed spectators with the quietness of the two working Rolls-Royce Dart engines.

Aeroplane Monthly 1998-10 / M.Hooks - Farnborough 50th

Vickers’ Viscount was the world’s first turboprop airliner and was destined to achieve worldwide sales. Here, the prototype lands in 1948; the type appeared every year until 1959, and one even flew on a public day in 1988.

Мировая Авиация 8

16 июля 1948г.: прототип пассажирского самолета Vickers-630 Viscount выполнил первый 10-минутный полет с аэродрома Уисли, Суррей. Самолетом управляли летчики Дж. Саммерс и Г. Брайс.

Мировая Авиация 59

Прототип V.630 успел побывать в нескольких вариантах окраски, но после первого полета под обозначением VX211 он все еще нес цвета компании "Vickers". Затем самолет получил эмблему BEA, а к началу 1950 года - полностью окрашен в цвета BEA.

Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / F.Prins - Birth of a Classic

Funded by the Ministry of Supply, the prototype Viscount 630 wore RAF roundels, and the military serial VX211 for some time beyond the first flight.

Мировая Авиация 125

29 июля 1950: капитан Ричард Раймер из BEA на прототипе V.630 Viscount выполнил перелет из Нортхольта (Великобритания) в Ле-Бурже (Франция), первый в истории пассажирский перелет на турбовинтовом лайнере. Эксплуатационные испытания продолжались две недели.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-07 / Personal album. Civil

Vickers Viscount V.701 G-AMOA George Vancouver at Luqa in 1959. Delivered to BEA in 1953, this Viscount was damaged beyond repair in January 1970.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-06 / ??? - On the Rock

Seen here at Gibraltar on August 29, 1952, about to depart for Madrid and Heathrow on a BEA development flight, is the prototype Viscount V.700, G-AMAV. Named Enterprise, 'AV was scrapped at Wisley in 1961.

Aeroplane Monthly 1978-10 / Vickers Viscount 701 /Preservation Profile/ (66)

Early days with BEA as Sir John Franklin.

Air Pictorial 1956-02 / Air Pictorial's photo-review

Revised B.E.A. tail markings on Viscount G-AMOH.

Aeroplane Monthly 1994-04 / 1994 UK Aircraft Collections and Museums Guide

BEA Viscount G-APIM is now in British Air Ferries colours at Brooklands.

Мировая Авиация 59

Первый V.700 (G-AMAV), 1950 год. Он никогда не принадлежал компании BEA, хотя в 1953 году получил имя "Endeavour" - по традиции семейства "Discovery". Неся на хвосте номер "23", самолет принял участие в гонках из Англии в Новую Зеландию.

Aeroplane Monthly 2000-01 / P.Jarrett - Landmarks in the sky /Epoch-making aircraft/

The first Vickers Viscount, G-AHRF, first flown on July 16, 1948, with Bryce acting as second pilot to "Mutt" Summers.
The first commercial turboprop-powered aircraft to fly was the Vickers Type 630 Viscount, G-AHRF/VX211, which took to the air for the first time on July 16, 1948. Designed as a medium-range airliner to meet the Brabazon IIB Specification, it was originally named Viceroy. It was powered by four 1,125 e.h.p. Rolls-Royce Dart 502 turboprops.

Air Pictorial 1956-09

Viscount 700 Series

Air Pictorial 1956-09

Viscount 800 Series

Air Pictorial 1957-02

The new Vickers Viscount 800

Air Pictorial 1957-10

The new Viscount 806-810 demonstrator, G-AOYF, has the airframe of the B.E.A.C. 806 series and the more powerful Dart R.Da 7/1 Mk. 525 engines of the 810 series. It made its first flight at Weybridge on 9/8/57.

Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / F.Prins - Birth of a Classic

Well satisfied with the Series 700s, BEA became a major operator of the enlarged 800. Illustrated is Series 802 G-AOJA ‘RMA Sir Samuel White Baker’. Delivered in February 1957, G-AOJA had a short life, crashing at Belfast’s Nutts Corner airport the following October.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1980 / Encyclopedia of Aviation - Aircraft A-Z - v5

Vickers Viscount 802.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-06 / D.Middleton - G.R. "Jock" Bryce /Test Pilot Profile/ (16)

The prototype Viscount V.700, G-AMAV, was flown in the England - New Zealand Race by a BEA crew. With an overall speed of 311 m.p.h. and an airborne time of just under 41 hr, 'AV was placed second in the Transport Handicap Section.

Air Pictorial 1956-10 / Photos by request

VICKERS VISCOUNT SERIES 800. The Vickers Viscount 800 series was developed as a bigger, more economical development of the famous V-700 series, for operation over relatively short, high-density inter-city routes. The prototype, a V-802 registered G-AOJA, made its first flight at Weybridge on 27th July 1956, and appeared at Farnborough in B.E.A. colours, named R.M .A. Sir Samuel White Baker. Twenty-four 65-seater V-802s have been ordered by B.E.A. and a further fourteen of a later type. The first four, after AOJA, are already on the production line. Other 800 series aircraft have been ordered by Aer Lingus, K.L.M., New Zealand National Airways and Transair. The series will be developed, during 1958 and 1959, into the V-810/840, externally similar, but powered with the R.Da. 7/1 and 8 respectively.
Salient features : The V-800 is complementary to, rather than a replacement for the V-700 series, and differs from the latter in several respects. The fuselage has been increased in length by 3 ft . 10 in., and this, together with a backward movement of the aft pressure bulkhead, has resulted in a cabin 9 ft. 3 in . longer, enabling a maximum of seventy passengers to be accommodated over the fifty-three of the V-700. The doors have been redesigned and are rectangular, rather than oval. The Rolls-Royce R.Da .6 Type 510, which powers the V-800, is a turbo-prop with two-stage turbine and centrifugal compressor, and has been developed from the Dart.

Air Pictorial 1956-09 / J.Stevens - Farnborough 1956

B.E.A.'s first Viscount 802 (G-AOJA) made Its first flight at Hurn on 27th July last.

Air Pictorial 1957-11 / The journal of a roving spotter

The last Viscount 802 for B.E.A., G-AORD, has an experimental pale blue finish on the underside of the fuselage.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-11 / R.Swain - The 1953 England - New Zealand air race

BEA entered Viscount V.700 prototype G-AMAV in the Transport Handicap section of the race.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-11 / R.Swain - The 1953 England - New Zealand air race

Team leader Peter (now Sir Peter) Masefield taking delivery of a film trailer for Conquest of Everest from Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-11 / R.Swain - The 1953 England - New Zealand air race

The BEA Viscount team, with John Profumo and Peter Masefield far right. Raymond Baxter can be seen by the G of the registration letters.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-11 / R.Swain - The 1953 England - New Zealand air race

Line-up of competitors at Heathrow on October 8, 1953, showing the five Canberras, Hastings, DC-6A and Viscount.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Douglas DC-6 / C-118 Liftmaster - СШАUSA - 1946English Electric / BAE Canberra - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1949Handley Page Hastings / H.P.67 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1946

Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / F.Prins - Birth of a Classic

Aer Lingus was an early customer of the Viscount and showed further faith in the turboprop era by being the launch customer for the Fokker F.27 Friendship, taking its first example of that type in 1958. Their first Viscount, Series 707 EI-AFV ‘St Patrick/St Padraig’ was delivered in March 1954.

Air Pictorial 1957-09 / J.Stevens - Farnborough 1957

Vickers Viscount

Мировая Авиация 59

В 1954 году "Aer Lingus" заказала Viscount 707 для замены флота устаревших DC-3 и Wayfarer. Авиалайнер стал первым турбовинтовым самолетом компании, а в 1960 году был размещен заказ еще на пять машин - улучшенных Viscount 808.

Air Pictorial 1956-03 / The journal of a roving spotter

Aer Lingus have introduced a distinctive new colour scheme on their Viscounts (and Dakotas), with a green top and fin, and white flash and rudder.

Мировая Авиация 75

Построенный как Series 808 для авиакомпании "Aer Lingus", этот самолет, позднее получивший регистрационный номер G-BBDK, затем был переделан в вариант Series 808C "Freightmaster" с грузовым люком по левому борту для британской компании "Air Bridge Carriers".

Air Pictorial 1995-01 / T.Walker - Air Malawi - 30 years of African service /Airline Profile/

Formerly VP-YNA of Central African Airways, Viscount 7Q-YDK became the backbone of Air Malawi's fleet from 1967 to 1980.

Мировая Авиация 75

Несколько Viscount, ранее принадлежавших "Capital Airways", в 1963 году были куплены базировавшейся на Гавайях компанией "Aloha Airlines". Эти машины использовались как на местных авиалиниях, так и для полетов на материк вплоть до 1971 года.

Air Pictorial 1961-10 / Photo Review

In Spotter's Notebook for July our colleague 'Aeroscribe' published a photograph of an All Nippon Airways Viscount K800 still carrying its original U.K. registration. We publish here a photograph of the second A.N.A. Viscount with its correct Japanese registration - JA8202 - on the fin.

Aviation Historian 28 / D.Watson - The Highlands, Channel Islands and beyond...

Bearing the badge of The Malta Airlines (with Maltese cross) aft of its open forward door, Viscount 802 G-AOHR (c/n 166) is seen here at Rome-Fiumicino in January 1967. BEA was a shareholder in The Malta Airlines and provided Viscounts for its services from the late 1950s until the island country became a Republic in 1974.

Aviation Historian 28 / D.Watson - The Highlands, Channel Islands and beyond...

Viscount 802 G-AOHK (c/n 160) in the airline’s distinctive "Speedjack" scheme at Manchester in the summer of 1970. In April the following year it was allocated to BEA Channel Island Airways, part of BEA’s Regional Division.

Air International 1996-07 / I.Goold - Heathrow (1)

Transportes Aereos Portugueses (TAP) L-1049H-03 Super Constellation CS-TLD seen at Heathrow around 1958/9 whilst on lease to the airline from Seaboard & Western Airlines. Visible in the background is one of BEA’s first Viscounts, Srs 701 G-ALWF, which is the oldest survivor of the type and is now preserved at the IWM Duxford.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Lockheed Super Constellation L-1049 / C-121C - СШАUSA - 1951

Air Pictorial 1992-02

Saturday, 4 January 1992 marked the final Highland Division HS748 flight from Sumburgh. All 'OE' services to and from Aberdeen are now operated by BATPS. Kim Benson's picture shows a sight no longer to be seen. From left to right: G-BCOF HS748 BAW/BP charter; G-CSZB VC8 BAF/Shell charter; G-AOYN VC8 BAF/Shell charter; and G-BCOE HS748 BAW mainline scheduled flight to Aberdeen. G-BCOE is special as she operated the first HS748 flight of BAW into Shetland on 4 August 1975 and the last "budgie" flight to Aberdeen on 4 January 1992.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Hawker-Siddeley Andover / HS.748 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1960

Aeroplane Monthly 1984-11 / P.Jarrett - Grapevine

As a tribute to Flight photographer and propliner historian Stephen Piercey, whose death in a flying accident was reported in July's Aeroplane, Southend-based British Air Ferries have named Vickers Viscount G-APIM after him. Pictured right at the naming ceremony on August 25, 1984 are his parents Ray and Patsy, his girlfriend Alison Chambers and his brothers Timothy and Hector.

Aeroplane Monthly 1978-10 / Vickers Viscount 701 /Preservation Profile/ (66)

Displaying early Cambrian Airways markings.

Aeroplane Monthly 1978-10 / Vickers Viscount 701 /Preservation Profile/ (66)

Being dismantled at Speke, November 1975, for the move to Duxford.

Aviation Historian 24 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (1)

In early 1960 Capital unveiled a new colour scheme, replacing the elegant "hawk" theme with a more austere scheme incorporating a white fuselage top with a broadening red line aft to a white and red fin carrying a simplified oval logo with upper case Bold Gothic letters; it had been noted that the old identity was not in capitals!

Aviation Historian 24 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (1)

The first of the initial three Viscounts to be delivered to Capital was V.744 N7402 (c/n 88), Fleet No 321, named Capitaliner Viscount Washington, which was handed over to Capital on May 17, 1955. The three V.744s were leased to Capital while its V.745Ds were still under construction. Of the three V.744s, N7402 and N7403 had returned to the UK by February 1958, N7404 having been written off in a landing accident at Chicago-Midway on February 20, 1956.

Мировая Авиация 75

Компания "Capital Airlines" стала крупнейшим зарубежным покупателем Viscount, заказав 60 машин на сумму 67 млн долларов. Никогда ранее зарубежный производитель авиатехники не получал столь крупного заказа от американской авиакомпании. Однако "Capital Airlines" столкнулась с финансовыми проблемами и в 1961 году была поглощена компанией "United".

Air Pictorial 1955-08

First of the sixty Vickers Viscount turboprop airliners on order for Capital Airlines of the United States. The Viscount is the first British airliner ever to go into domestic scheduled airline service in the U.S.

Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / F.Prins - Birth of a Classic

Through the Viscount, great inroads were made into export markets, with the US being the most notable. Capital Airlines Viscount 744 N7402, fleet number ‘321’ was delivered in June 1955.

Aviation Historian 24 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (1)

In the summer of 1954 the prototype Viscount V.700, G-AMAV, which had participated in the London to New Zealand Air Race the previous October, was painted in a Capital scheme to enable the airline to make the promotional film A New Concept in Flight. The scheme ultimately adopted for Capital’s Viscounts had the hawk motif further forward on the fuselage.

Aviation Historian 24 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (1)

Capital Viscount V.745Ds in the factory at Hurn, where an additional Viscount production line was set up in 1953. Leading the line here is N7411, Fleet No 330, which made its first flight on January 20, 1956, and was delivered to Capital on March 8 the same year. Some 279 of the 444 Viscounts built were produced at Hurn.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-07 / Personal album. Civil

Viscount V.812 G-ATUE in Channel Airways livery, photographed at Southend on September 22, 1967. First registered to the American airline Continental Airlines as N244V, 'UE passed from Channel Airways to Alidair Cargo Ltd, based at Baginton, before being broken up in 1977.

Aeroplane Monthly 1978-10 / Vickers Viscount 701 /Preservation Profile/ (66)

In service with Channel Airways, at Newcastle on June 21, 1964.

Мировая Авиация 75

Самолет G-AOYV служил прототипом для последней модификации V.810 и был окрашен в цвета первого покупателя, компании "Continental Airlines". Последняя приобрела 14 машин, эксплуатация которых велась в 1958-1967 годах. Прототип остался в собственности фирмы-изготовителя и был оснащен системой разбрызгивания жидкости и хвостовым оперением лайнера Vanguard для сертификации противообледенительной защиты.

Aviation Historian 25 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (2)

Arguably one of the most attractive Viscount colour schemes, Continental’s three-colour (plus bare-metal) palette complemented the type’s graceful lines, a rather raffish touch being added with the incorporation of a dark blue band around the cockpit, lending the impression the aircraft was wearing a pair of elegant sunglasses! Continental Viscount II N248V is seen here up from Farnborough during the 1958 SBAC show.

Aviation Historian 25 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (2)

A pair of Continental V.812s beside the hangar at Wisley, where they were tested.

Aviation Historian 25 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (2)

Jet power! Continental was keen to differentiate its V812s from Capital’s 700-series Viscounts, each bearing the legend “Viscount II” prominently on its fin.

Aviation Historian 25 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (2)

Continental made sure its customers knew its V.812s were radar-equipped, with a stylish legend on the port door

Aviation Historian 25 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (2)

The AVQ-10 weather radar dish was housed in a tidy fairing in the nosecone, designed for easy maintenance

Aviation Historian 25 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (2)

All 15 of Continental’s V.812s were built on the production line at Weybridge, as seen here in the spring of 1958. The greater power of the Dart 525 fitted to the 810-series meant that the airframe had to be strengthened, with more structure in the wings and a beefing-up of the fuselage, tail and flying controls to absorb the extra power.

Мировая Авиация 75

В начале 1975 года "Cyprus Airways" взяла в аренду несколько Viscount 813 компании "British Midland Airways", чтобы удовлетворить возросший спрос на Средиземноморском рынке летних перевозок. Осенью самолеты были возвращены владельцу.

Air International 1992-10 / G.Endres - Cyprus Airways: From regional carrier to international operator

Vickers Viscounts were leased from the UK to restart limited services following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in July 1974.

Air Pictorial 1958-02

Viscount G-APDW, in its smart Eagle livery, is a welcome compensation for the loss of two familiar and well-liked old-timers.

Air Enthusiast 2001-01 / T.Singfield - The Free Air of Heaven

Viscount 805 VR-BAX flew the first Eagle Airways service in these colours from Bermuda to New York on June 2, 1958. Named 'Enterprise', it also carried the titles 'The Bermuda Airline' on the port side

Air Pictorial 1958-07

The Eagle Viscounts VR-BAX "Enterprise" (ex-G-APDW) and G-APDX photographed together at Blackbushe recently.

Мировая Авиация 75

Одним из первых зарубежных операторов была компания "Misrair-Egyptian Airlines", получившая в декабре 1955 года три новых (на снимке) и два подержанных самолета Series 739. Одна из машин была уничтожена во время налета британских Королевских ВВС на каирский аэропорт Алмаза в 1956 году.

Мировая Авиация 59

Компания "Egyptian Airlines" заказала Viscount одной из первых - в 1955 году. Карьера самолетов оказалась неудачной: один сгорел во время боевых действий за Суэцкий канал, второй - потерян в аварии, а третий - продан в 1965 году.

Air Pictorial 1976-03

Viscount 832 B-2017, ex VH-RMJ, taxi-ing in at Taipeh

Мировая Авиация 75

Три Viscount 838, приобретенных правительством Ганы, осенью 1961 года были переданы авиакомпании "Ghana Airways". Этот самолет, получивший регистрационный номер XT661, в 1965-1989 годах использовался британским Королевским авиационным исследовательским институтом (RAE).

Aeroplane Monthly 1974-03 / B.Martin - Britain's civil aircraft register

Viscount G-BBVH, ex ZK-BRD is now owned by Gibraltar Airways.

Aeroplane Monthly 1987-02

GORDON BAIN's breathtaking photo depicts Guernsey Airlines' Vickers Viscount V 806 G-BLOA, ex-G-AOYJ. outbound from Southend on November 12, 1986. First registered as G-AOYJ in January 1958, this Viscount flew with BEA until leased to Cyprus Airways in 1965

Air Pictorial 1976-03

Huns Air Viscount 779 VT-DOE. ex G-APZP, also at Sharjah 13/1/76

Aviation Historian 6 / A.Waller - A Flying Safari

With sunlight glinting off its polished-metal upper surfaces, Viscount 833 G-APTB shows off its new Hunting-Clan colours in the summer of 1959. Three 833s, fitted with higher-powered Dart engines for hot and high conditions, were introduced on Safari services from July 1959.

Мировая Авиация 75

Компания "Icelandair" купила два Viscount 759D у "Hunting Clan Air Transport" в 1957 году. Самолет на снимке в апреле 1963 года потерпел катастрофу над норвежским островом Несой на подходе к аэропорту Осло. Оставшийся Viscount продолжал исправно нести службу до мая 1970 года, когда он был списан и разделан на металл в Рейкьявике.

Air Pictorial 1957-06

Enforced abandonment of the Hunting-Clan colonial services and an industrial dispute in France have provided London Airport with such unusual creatures as Icelandic Viscounts and Sud Est 2010 Armagnacs.

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-11 / J.Stroud - A million miles flown /A lifetime of flying/

Indian Airlines Corporation’s Vickers-Armstrongs Viscount V.768 VT-DIO on a test flight from Hurn on August 1, 1957, before delivery.

Air Pictorial 1992-02 / P.Myers - Viscount's extended life at Aberdeen

Inter-City Airline's Viscount 708 G-ARGR is pictured on the apron at Sumburgh Airport, Shetland, on a typical winter's day.

Air Pictorial 1961-12 / Spotter's Notebook

K.L.M. have designated Luton Airport as their No. 1 alternate to London, and Viscount PH-VIG was the first diversion there on 30th October

Мировая Авиация 66

Никарагуа приобрела всего два новых Viscount. На снимке: вторая из этих машин, модификации 786D.

Aeroplane Monthly 1976-05 / H.Seabrook-Smith - Lufthansa 1926-76 (2)

The first of Lufthansa’s nine Vickers Viscount 814s, D-ANUN. The airline was the first in Europe to operate the 810 series Viscount.

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Разместив первый заказ в мае 1956 года, германская государственная авиакомпания "Lufthansa" получила с октября 1958 по апрель 1959 годов в общей сложности девять Viscount 814. Еще два самолета были поставлены в 1961 году. Самолет на снимке, первый из поставленных, прожил долгую жизнь в небе и использовался авиакомпаниями Великобритании, Швеции и Гамбии вплоть до снятия с эксплуатации в 1991 году.

Air Pictorial 1999-05

Lufthansa’s Vickers Viscount, D-ANUN is the aircraft selected for Corgi’s latest 1:144th scale die-cast model. Delivered to the German airline in October 1958, the Series 814 moved to the UK register as G-BAPF in early 1972, when it was bought by British Midland. It later flew with Baltic Airlines until withdrawn from use in 1991, ending its days at Moreton-in-the-Marsh for fire training. The model should have enormous appeal depicting, as it does, one of the foremost airliners of the post-war years. It is also appearing in Parcel Force and BEA colours.

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Компания "Middle East Airlines" взяла в аренду четыре Viscount 700 в 1955 году. Успешный опыт эксплуатации заставил оператора обзавестись еще шестью самолетами: три взяты в лизинг у дочерних компаний BOAC и еще три построены.

Aviation Historian 14 / J.Stroud - Beirut: Lebanon's Propliner Paradise /The John Stroud Archive/

By the end of 1955 the turboprop-powered Vickers Viscounts supplied to MEA by MASCO were operating services from Beirut to Europe. Viscount 732 OD-ACF was originally G-ANRR in Hunting-Clan service and operated with MEA from September 1955 to September 1957, when it was returned to Hunting-Clan.

Aviation Historian 4 / J.Forsgren - Keeping the Peace

Another photograph of the ramp at Beirut International Airport in 1958, including a Bell OH-13 and Bird Dog of Unogil, which operated alongside airline “heavy metal”. Note the Jordan International Airlines Douglas DC-4 (JY-ABD), Iranair DC-4 and MEA Vickers Viscount in the background.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Bell H-13 Sioux / Model 47 - СШАUSA - 1945Cessna L-19 / O-1 Bird dog / Model 305 - СШАUSA - 1950Douglas DC-4 / C-54 / R5D Skymaster - СШАUSA - 1942

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Этот самолет Series 807, получивший имя "City of Christchurch", был одним из пяти Viscount, принадлежавших "New Zealand National Airways Corporation". Компания эксплуатировала эти машины в 1959-1975 годах в основном на местных авиалиниях. Случай весьма необычный для истории Viscount, когда самолеты всю свою жизнь прослужили у одного оператора.

Air Pictorial 1958-02

ZK-BRD "City of Wellington", first of three 807s, left London on 1st january, and was due in Auckland on the 10th, flown by Capts. Walker, Harvey and Register. Flying time on the scheduled Christchurch-Auckland run will be cut by nearly half to 1 hour 55 minutes. [New Zealand National Airways Corporation]

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"Northeast Airlines" приобрела часть самолетов, не выкупленных "Capital Airlines", которые получили обозначения 798D. В 1958-1963 годах компания эксплуатировала в общей сложности 10 таких машин.

Aviation Historian 26 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (3)

Hurn-built Viscount N6594C (c/n 284) was delivered to Northeast on September 22, 1958, and is seen here beside a Piedmont Fairchild F-27 Friendship. When Northeast ran into financial trouble, its nine remaining Viscounts were repossessed by Vickers and sold at auction, N6594C being acquired by Alitalia, with which it served as I-LIRG.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Fokker F.27 Friendship - НидерландыNetherlands - 1955

Air Pictorial 1957-06 / The journal of a roving spotter

Newest airline livery seen on a Viscount is that of Philippine Air lines, where two Type 784s will be used on the "Route of the Orient Star".

Air-Britain Archive 1984-03

According to the Air-Britain "Vickers Viscount and Vanguard" monograph only one of P.L.U.N.A.'s first three Viscounts was given a name, this being CX-AQO. However the photo clearly shows the name "Liberatador Gral José de San Martin" worn by CX-AQP

Air-Britain Archive 1984-04

Apache CX-ARM on the apron at Montevideo with Viscount CX-AQN on 28.8.60. Note the lack of hyphen on the fin which also carries what is presumed to be a radio call sign "CX-5 ZAF Aero Mobile". On the nose is the name "Johnnie Walker III" and the trade mark of that well-known brand of Scotch whiskey.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Piper Apache PA-23 / Aztec - СШАUSA - 1952

Air-Britain Archive 1984-03

According to the Air-Britain "Vickers Viscount and Vanguard" monograph only one of P.L.U.N.A.'s first three Viscounts was given a name, this being CX-AQO. However the photo clearly shows CX-AQO at Montevideo on 28.8.60 is nameless.

Air Pictorial 1977-02 / G.Endres - Airlines of the World

Viscount HC-ATV owned by SAN of Ecuador

Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / F.Prins - Birth of a Classic

Roll-out of the first Series 813 for South African Airways, ZS-CDT ‘Blesbok ’ at Hurn. Delivered in October 1958 it gave loyal service until 1972 when it (and the rest of the fleet) were acquired by British Midland Airways.

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"South African Airways" получила в 1958-1959 годах семь Viscount 813, приспособленных для перевозки 56 пассажиров. Представленный на снимке самолет ZS-CDT, названный "Blesbok", был первым в этой партии. Он снят во время испытательного перелета с завода "Vickers-Armstrong" в аэропорт Борнмута.

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"Trans-Australia Airlines" была одним из первых операторов Viscount, заказав самолеты Type 720, оснащенные дополнительными топливными баками, установленными с внешней стороны гондол двигателей. Позднее эта компания приобрела машины Series 810.

Air Pictorial 1955-05 / Photos by request

Sixth Viscount for T.A.A., VH-TVF, has "slipper" tanks outboard of the engines. Each holds 145 gallons and together they increase range by 255 miles.

Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / F.Prins - Birth of a Classic

Close-up of the superbly neat cowling and installation of the Darts and of the optional slipper fuel tank on the leading edge. The aircraft is VH-TVF for Trans-Australian Airlines, a Series 720 delivered in January 1955. It served all of its life in Australia, being retired in 1967.

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Данный V.794 (№431) был одним из последних построенных базовых Viscount с коротким фюзеляжем. В октябре 1958 года самолет был передан турецкой компании THY, а впоследствии передан турецким ВВС и использовался как штабной самолет.

Air Enthusiast 1971-10 / Airscene

Recent additions to the inventory of the Turkish Air Forces, the Turk Hava Kuvvetleri (THK), have included 10 Bell UH-1D Iroquois helicopters; sufficient Northrop RF-5A photographic aircraft to equip one squadron of the THK's 3rd Tactical Air Force, and three ex-THY Vickers Viscount 794s (shown) which are being used exclusively as VIP transports.

Air Pictorial 1976-10

Turkish A.F. Viscount "430", ex TC-SEL, which arrived Stansted 26/7/76 for Aviation Traders overhaul with "246" and "431";

Air International 1993-02 / G.Jones - Swallow to Airbus

Following the purchase of Capital Airlines, Vickers Viscounts' donned UAL colours and became an important type with the airline.

Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / F.Prins - Birth of a Classic

Series 782D EP-AHA in United Iranian Airlines colours. One of three ordered, it was delivered in March 1958 and served the airline until 1966.

Air International 1994-10 / G.Jones - Branson's Beauty - Virgin Atlantic Airways

Viscount G-AOYP in full Virgin colours operated the Maastricht to Gatwick service until terminated in early 1989.

Air Pictorial 1957-03

A Viscount Type 764D, and is one of three for the U.S. Steel Co. Note nose radar and slipper fuel tank on wing.

Air Enthusiast 1973-03 / ??? - Winged springbok: ... then South African Air Force today

Elderly types still operated by the SAAF in the transport role and on general duties include a single Vickers Viscount 781.

Jane's All the World Aircraft 1964 / 01 - Aircraft

Vickers Viscount 744 used by the Empire Test Pilots School, Farnborough, as a staff transport and to give students experience of performance measurement and handling assessment on a modern turboprop aircraft

Air Enthusiast 1972-09 / ??? - Supporting a 'Sensitive' War

One of the SOAF's three 800 series Viscounts that operate the Muscat-Salalah service. Note the auxillary wing tanks.

Air Pictorial 1956-12

The 150th Vickers Viscount production model a Series 742 V.I.P. version, one of two (FAB-2100 and FAB-2101) destined for the Brazilian air force .

Air Pictorial 1956-02 / Air Pictorial's photo-review

Revised colour scheme: Viscount 737 CF-GXK at Dorval, the temporary T.C.A. markings now replaced by those of the owners, the Canadian Department of Transport.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-07 / 1988 UK Aircraft Collections and Museums Guide

Viscount G-AMOG at Cosford.

Aviation Historian 6 / A.Waller - A Flying Safari

Angela Waller (at left) awaits the next group of passengers with a colleague. When the Viscounts entered Hunting-Clan service in 1957 a second air hostess was added to the crew - although, being a veteran of the single-hostess Viking and York Safari Services, Angela was regarded as a senior air hostess.

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Angela Waller is seen, smiling from the steps of British United Airways Vickers Viscount G-APTD at Entebbe in February 1961.

Aviation Historian 18 / J.Stroud - Arctic Assignment: Propliner proliferation in Finland /The John Stroud Archive/

A shared interest: John and Patricia Stroud beside a Viscount at Wisley, circa 1955-56. Patricia filed numerous reports for Flight during her career.

Aviation Historian 24 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (1)

Capital’s President, J.H. "Slim" Carmichael (right) discusses the merits of the Viscount and its Dart engines with Vickers-Armstrongs Aircraft Division’s Managing Director George Edwards at Weybridge during Carmichael’s fact-finding mission to the UK in 1953.

Aeroplane Monthly 1974-11 / B.Martin - Britain's civil aircraft register

A Viscount used as a crew trainer by Cambrian Airways at Rhoose, with the spurious registration G-WHIZ.

Air Pictorial 1998-03

Paul Howard sent this view of a propeller mounted at the entrance to the Real Aero Club le Gran Canaria. He believes it comes from a Viscount, possibly ex-G-AOYM or ’OYO, which languished at Tenerife for some years.

Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / F.Prins - Birth of a Classic

A view of the production line at Hurn, Bournemouth. In the foreground are two Series 749s for LAV of Venezuela, YV-C-AMV and ’X. Delivered in February and March 1956 respectively, they both served only LAV and both were written off, in January 1971 and August 1974 respectively.

Air Pictorial 1957-11

All 800 Series Viscounts are now assembled at Weybridge and all 700 Series on the Hurn production line shown above. Second and fifth machines in the line are the 754s G-APCD and 'CE (c/n. 243 and 244) ordered by B.O.A.C. for Cyprus Airways.

Air Pictorial 1958-03

Over 4,000,000 HOURS have been flown by ROLLS-ROYCE DART PROP-JETS powering Vickers Viscounts in regular service on the air routes of six continents

Aeroplane Monthly 1974-08 / News Spotlight

Ex-Air Canada Viscount testbed for the UACL PT6A-50 engine intended to power the de Havilland Canada DHC-7 "quiet STOL" transport

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С февраля 1982 года фирма "Pratt & Whitney" использовала этот Viscount 757 для испытаний нового ТВД PW100. Двигатель разместили в носовой части самолета для обеспечения работы в невозмущенном потоке воздуха.

Air International 1985-04

Flight testing has begun of the six-blade advanced technology propeller under development by British Aerospace and United Technologies’ Hamilton Standard Division for the BAe ATP (Advanced Turboprop) airliner. A PW124 engine of the type which will power the ATP has been installed in the nose of a Viscount used by Pratt & Whitney of Canada for engine development, and more than 35 hrs of operating time have been logged by this engine/propeller combination to date. A second propeller has completed 1,000 hrs of ground test running on a PW 124.

Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / F.Prins - Birth of a Classic

The prototype Series 810, G-AOYV, in the colours of Continental Airlines for promotional purposes was used for Vanguard development work. It is seen here in a low level ‘beat-up’ with a mock-up of its bigger brother’s tailfin fabricated over its own leading edge. The spray rig in front of the fin was used to test the Napier-developed Spraymat de-icing system. Note also the mast-mounted probes above the cockpit.

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Послевоенные попытки британцев использовать турбореактивные двигатели Nene и Tay окончились неудачей. Последний установили только на втором прототипе Viscount (V.663). Как и оснащенный Nene авиалайнер Viking, он имел четыре тележки основной опоры шасси, размещенные по обеим сторонам гондол двигателей.

Air Enthusiast 2003-11 / A.Brew - Proud heritage

The Tay-powered Viscount, the world's first fly-by-wire aircraft at Seighford in 1957.

Aeroplane Monthly 1988-06 / D.Middleton - G.R. "Jock" Bryce /Test Pilot Profile/ (16)

Viscount VX217 was converted into a flying testbed for Rolls-Royce’s Tay turbojet engine.

Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / F.Prins - Birth of a Classic

Series 663 Tay Viscount is put through its paces at the 1950 SBAC display at Farnborough. It the background is the unique shape of a spectacularly unsuccessful Brabazon committee airliner - the awesome Bristol Brabazon.

Другие самолёты на фотографии: Another planes on the photo: Bristol Brabazon / Type 167 - ВеликобританияUnited Kingdom - 1949

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-05 / B.Jones - Perfecting the power /Airborne engine testbeds/

The Tay Viscount flies its display at the 1950 SBAC Show at Farnborough.

Aeroplane Monthly 1984-08 / D.Middleton - Brian Trubshaw /Test Pilot Profile/ (11)

The Rolls-Royce Tay powered Vickers Viscount 663, VX217/G-AHRG being demonstrated at the 1950 SBAC show at Farnborough. Later it was used to develop the power controls for the Vickers Valiant.

Air International 2020-02 / D.Unwin - Pilot Shortages - myth or reality? /Talking Point/

While the principles of flight remain the same, flight deck architecture has changed massively over the past half-century.

Aviation Historian 6 / A.Waller - A Flying Safari

The ‘‘stew’s view” - passengers await a demonstration flight from Eastleigh Airport, Nairobi, aboard Viscount G-ANRR in 1957. The first of Hunting-Clan’s Viscounts, this aircraft crashed at Frimley in Surrey during a test flight on December 2, 1958, killing all five crew members aboard.

Aviation Historian 6 / A.Waller - A Flying Safari

Hunting-Clan hostess Joyce Darbyshire, who joined the airline the same day as the author, serves refreshments aboard a Viscount. Safari services initially operated with only one hardworking hostess.

Aviation Historian 6 / A.Waller - A Flying Safari

Fully adjustable, the seats of Hunting-Clan’s coach service Viscount afforded unsurpassed views from the type’s much-celebrated generously-proportioned oval windows. Note the company’s crest above the seats.

Aviation Historian 25 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (2)

Continental’s V.812s were initially configured in an all-first-class 52-passenger layout with an ingeniously designed interior with specially commissioned trim and decor, which provided the airline’s Viscounts with an extra 4in (10cm) in width

Aeroplane Monthly 1999-11 / J.Stroud - A million miles flown /A lifetime of flying/

Mont Blanc (15,781ft), the highest mountain in Europe, framed in the window of a Middle East Airlines Vickers-Armstrongs Viscount.

Air International 2007-03 / News: Headline, Military, Civil, Airshow

EARLY PRODUCTION Vickers V.708 Viscount F-BGNR (c/n 35) Victoria Lynne, which has been in open storage in Bedfordshire since 1998, has been purchased from current owners SkySport Engineering Ltd by Martin Garrett and Rob-Mac Skimming for restoration to live ground running condition.

Aeroplane Monthly 1997-12 / M.Oakey - Vintage news

Vickers Viscount 816 VH-TVR, once Cuban leader Fidel Castro’s personal transport, is now being restored for static display at the Moorabbin Air Museum.

Aeroplane Monthly 1976-04 / News Spotlight

The world’s oldest surviving Vickers Viscount arrives at Duxford on February 2, 1976 on a Crane Fruehauf telescopic trailer. The first production aircraft, Viscount 701 G-ALWF first flew in 1952 and made its last passenger flight on December 24, 1971 with Cambrian Airways. It was purchased by the Viscount Preservation Trust and exhibited at Speke until security precautions made this impossible. The Duxford Aviation Society then offered the aircraft a home at Duxford where it will be re-assembled for public exhibition.

Aeroplane Monthly 1990-04 / M.Oakey - Grapevine

British Air Ferries Vickers Viscount G-APIM Stephen Piercey, named after the Flight photographer and renowned propliner specialist who died in a flying accident at Hanover in 1984, returned to its birthplace at Brooklands in mid-February 1990 for refurbishment and exhibition at the Brooklands Museum.

Авиация и Космонавтика 2018-10 / В.Морозов - В желтой, жаркой Африке: Авиация Родезии и Зимбабве (2)

Фото с места падения «Вайкаунта» (борт VP-WAS «Ханьяни») авиакомпании «Air Rhodesia», сбитого ПЗРК 3 сентября 1978 г.

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“Hot toddy, Sir?” - this TWA Lockheed Super Constellation advert evokes the convivial effect for which stewardess Angela Waller was aiming. Note how the artist has added cabin headroom for enhanced marketing value.

Aviation Historian 24 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (1)

Capital’s 1955 brochure, also called A New Concept in Flight, drew attention to the Viscount’s 26in (66cm)-high by 19in (48cm)-wide windows, which offered splendid views for the passengers. The brochure also challenged passengers to “balance a quarter on your table at 25,000ft... a true symbol of the Viscount’s smooth, vibrationless flight”.

Air Pictorial 1957-03

Air Pictorial 1957-01

Aviation Historian 25 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (2)

It s coming soon! Providing vibration-free, velvet-smooth Jet-Prop air travel’’, the Viscount II was heavily promoted by Continental on its introduction into service in May 1958 - although nowhere near as extensively as Capital’s V.745s had been back in 1955.

Aviation Historian 25 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (2)

“How long since you’ve been hailed as a conquering hero?” Thus runs the copy in this classic 1959 Continental advertisement for its Viscount and DC-7B “Gold Carpet” service. “You’re always a Caesar to us. Unless, of course, you’re Cleopatra!”

Aviation Historian 26 / D.Stringer - The Viscount comes to America (3)

Although Northeast did not quite “go to town” to the same extent in promotional terms that its fellow Viscount operator, Capital Airlines, did, the airline nevertheless extolled the virtues of the “jet-prop Viscount” on its lucrative services between Boston, Washington DC, New York, Philadelphia and Montreal.

Air Enthusiast 1998-01 / F.Prins - Birth of a Classic

Viscount variants.

Air Pictorial 1955-08 / The journal of a roving spotter

The Vickers-Armstrongs VC-2 project with four Darts of June 1945. The "double-bubble" hull and the wing design are noteworthy.

Air Pictorial 1956-10 / Photos by request

ViCKERS VISCOUNT SERIES 800. Data : Manufacturer : Vickers Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd., Weybridge. Powerplant : four Rolls-Royce Dart R.Da.6 Type 510, giving 1,600 s.h.p. plus 370-lb. thrust, totalling 1,780 e .h.p. at 14,500 r .p.m. Accommodation : fifty-two-seventy passengers. Dimensions: span 94 ft.; length 85 ft .; height 26 ft. 9 in . Weights : loaded 62,000 lb .; max. payload 12,700 lb . Performance: cruises at 320 m.p.h . with maximum payload. Range : 620 miles under conditions given.

Aeroplane Monthly 1978-10 / Vickers Viscount 701 /Preservation Profile/ (66)

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