VICKERS VISCOUNT CLASSIC AIRLINES SERIES 1950s 1960s | JETFLIX

VICKERS VISCOUNT CLASSIC AIRLINES SERIES 1950s 1960s
Join Henry Tenby on a classic airline journey down memory lane to the 1950s and 1960s with the revolutionary Vickers Viscount and airlines that made the British type a legend.
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[@JetFlix]

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[@speedtwin5t]

I flew on a Viscount as a child. We flew from London to Shannon Ireland then on to Boston USA on a Boeing 707. Aer Lingus ! 1968

[@JetFlix]

Great memories for sure!

[@willyboy3581]

Philippine Airlines. (I'm not carping; I realize you're just presenting a sampling of the carriers that flew the Viscounts --- and fascinating it is to see those beautiful planes in all the colorful liveries.) Back to PAL; by the mid-/late-50s, almost all of their international routes (ex., trans-Pacific) were in abeyance: the one exception was Hong Kong. The PAL fleet at that time was mostly the DC-3, the Convair, and the Viscount, the cream of the crop. These were used on the Manila-Hong Kong route. What a pleasure it was (then) to have flown on them; what a privilege it is (now) to have these memories. Thanks so much for shoring this with us.

[@JetFlix]

My pleasure thank you for telling us about the PAL Viscount operation to HK.

[@willyboy3581]

@@JetFlix You're welcome, JetFlix. If memory serves, the Manila-Hong Kong run was a busy one; not only PAL but Pan American, Cathay Pacific, and - briefly - Hong Kong Airways flew that route (this last-named also using the Viscount), But as I remember, PAL had the most flights.

[@mxyzptlyk]

Great nostalgic photos for me. As an eleven-year-old in 1966 I flew BEA Viscounts and Vanguards from Manchester (MAN) to Zurich (ZRH), often returning on SE.210 Caravelles and Convair CV-990 Coronados of Swissair. My dad was working on Bloodhound missiles for the Swiss at the time at their base in Meggen near Lucerne.

[@JetFlix]

Fantastic memories you have. I was born in 1964 and have childhood memories of Air Canada Viscount and Vanguard flights, and as a result I am obsessed with these types as an adult lifelong enthusiast.

[@mig882001]

Correction India .The airline was set up under the Air Corporations Act, 1953 . 2 separate companies Air India took over international routes and Indian Airlines Corporation took over the domestic and regional routes.On 26 F.ebruary 2011, Indian Airlines ceased operating under its own brand and codes and completed its merger with Air India.4 Viscount 1st regtd VT-DIG It first flew on Friday, 11 October 1957

[@JetFlix]

Thank you kindly for the historical records on Air India and Indian Airlines, very much appreciated.

[@feathermerchant]

I flew on a Viscount in 1971 traveling from Israel to England. Nice aircraft.

[@JetFlix]

Must have been BEA’s Viscount service from TLV to Heathrow. Sometimes it stopped in Cyprus and Athens, and perhaps other locations as well as I’m not sure it was always a direct service.

[@oneavgeekgirl]

Fantastic!!!! I want to see more of these "take me back to 50s, 60s, 70s era" projects :)

[@JetFlix]

Thank you for the encouragement ... we will do some more of these classic airline series videos soon. Which types would people like I wonder .. Boeing 707, Boeing 720, Lockheed Electra, early Boeing 747s??

[@dfirth224]

@@JetFlix What about Convair? They were popular by regional airlines in the 1950s and 60s.

[@bernhardecklin7005]

Fantastic! Thank you very much. Of everything that has propellers, the Viscount is my favourite. On September 5th, 1964 I flew from Ilopango to New Orleans on a TACA Viscount 700. Unforgettable!

[@JetFlix]

I agree Bernhard, the Vickers Viscount is my favourite too! I had many Air Canada Viscount flights as a kid in the late 60s and early 70s. Thank you for sharing your wonderful memories.

[@waynedavies8130]

I remember fitting a fuel bag tank in the wing of a Cambrian Airways Viscount in about 1977!!!

[@JetFlix]

I did not even realize fuel tanks were lined with rubber/plastic to create a leak proof cell.

[@zjcasey6119]

I missed them!!

[@JetFlix]

Me too!

[@RuiPlaneSpotter]

Fantastic video, congratulations!

[@JetFlix]

Thank you, the Vickers Viscount is my favourite airliner so I thought I would try to make something different than my usual video.

[@RuiPlaneSpotter]

JetFlix ❤️✈️🇵🇹

[@GrenvilleMelonseedSkiff496]

Very cool … thanks for the memories! I flew on a Viscount from London to Paris in 1979 to see the Paris air show. At the time I was a graduate apprentice at Rolls-Royce in Derby. The crew kindly let me stand in the cockpit, elbows resting on the pilot chair seat backs for the approach and landing in Paris! The college I attended in Toronto had acquired Air Canada’s Viscount simulator so I had a chance to fly that sim. Little did I know that some 15 years later I would find myself teaching the Dart engine maintenance course for RR in Montreal. Finally, it was great to see the BWIA Viscount since I was the RR engine rep in Port of Spain for a time in the 80’s supporting the L1011 engines! How about those mighty Dart turboprops … they pioneered the use of a single interconnected power and propeller power lever. PS: Really liked the TCA Viscount photo as I was also a RR tech rep at Air Canada on the L1011 … incredibly, Montreal was my home town where I grew up plane spotting at YUL in the 60’s and 70’s!

[@JetFlix]

Fabulous memories you have thank you so much for sharing them with us.

[@Ben-xe8ps]

I have flown on Viscounts on several occasions. I have travelled on the BEA/BA Channel Islands Viscount aircraft between LHR and JER/GCI. One airline not included in your video is GibAir (subsequently GB Airways) who operated the Viscount until well into the 1980's on the world's shortest intercontinental flight - GIB to TNG. I have flown on this aircraft several times. Very last time I flew on a viscount was in 1985 when the early AM Saturday morning British Caledonian Airways flight from LGW to BRU was regularly operated by British Air Ferries on behalf of BCAL using a Viscount instead of the normal BCAL BAC-1-11 which operated all other BCAL flights on this route. The 2 X 2 seating configuration shown at 2.32 is very nice. Every Viscount that I have ever travelled on has been in a 2 X 3 Y class configuration. Concerning Cyprys Airways. I recall that following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus and the destruction of Nicosia airport and all of Cyprus Airways own aircraft, Cyprys Airways resumed flights from the new airport at Larnaca using a Viscount leased from somewhere configured in a 2 class FY configuration and operated to/from Athens. I always liked the Viscount. Compared to modern day propeller aircraft they always felt sturdy and safe.

[@JetFlix]

Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful Viscount memories I very much appreciate it.

[@louisesylviawood1256]

ThAnkyou Henry for showing us this

[@JetFlix]

Thank you for your comments here Louise 🙏🙏👍👍 good to see you finding this video. Amazing your dad worked on the Viscount. It was a great airplane and it’s my all-time favourite with the Vanguard. I think you know that.

[@louisesylviawood1256]

@@JetFlix ThAnkyou henry he also worked on Concorde too along with many other men

[@merc340sr]

Viscount is the first plane I've flown on, late 60s, Air Canada. I always thought that the sound of the Rolls Royce engines was very unique.

[@JetFlix]

Yes, I totally agree. I just love Vickers Viscount for all these reasons.

[@brianmarak9689]

A plethora of smart liveries. Those Rolls Royce Dart turbo props were piercing loud.

[@JetFlix]

I am a massive fan of the Viscount .. as well as the Vangaurd.

[@grahambuckerfield4640]

You know the jet noise at the start of the Beatles song 'Back In The USSR'? That's actually a Viscount landing at Heathrow recorded and taken back to the studio to be amplified.

[@user-or8lw6fy1l]

I flew to the Philippines from Windsor, Canada in 1967.

[@waltermachado4356]

JetFlix, very good congratulations to your video.

[@JetFlix]

Thanks a lot!

[@josephagnello9335]

I hear you and AGREE 💯

[@benwilson6145]

Up to about 1995 Shell charted several British Air Ferries Viscounts to fly Aberdeen to Sumburgh to shuttle offshore worker's . They were wonderful and very comfortable aircraft, totally reliable. I especially liked the large windows.

[@redtag501]

United V.745 at the 7:00 mark was taken at Atlanta GA, not Chicago.

[@jamesmcdonnell6702]

First airliner I ever flew on in 1965 London to Dublin return as a 5 year old with my family precious memory so long ago, great aircraft got the ordinary person into the air, thanks for a great video Henry

[@JetFlix]

My pleasure James, Aer Lungus had wonderful schemes on their Viscounts, I love them specially the 1950s green crowned Viscount 700 scheme.

[@eamonryan2198]

The Viscount was far from a great aircraft. When you consider the over 1600 people who lost their lives in the many Viscount crashes, the title of flying coffin was well earned.

[@user-GazarooGuy]

I so enjoyed your video . Seeing the Viscount again , the nostalgia , it was the 1st airplane I flew on , was 6yrs of age , I flew ( my Parents + I ) to Victoria Falls from Salisbury,Rhodesia , on Air Rhodesia. There was a picture of the 700 series in Air Rhodesia Iivery. The anticipation and excitement of flying in the morning , I never slept that night. It wasn't the only time I flew on the Viscount, did fly a few times after that. I still remember the high pitch sound of the RR Dart turbo props . A great airplane, it was successful with airlines around the globe. Great memories. Thanks for the great video .

[@JetFlix]

Hi Gary, I am thrilled to hear you liked my video and it brought back such wonderful memories of your first flight on an Air Rhodesia Viscount 700. Great stuff!!

[@user-GazarooGuy]

Thank you for yr reply Do you have other video postings? I look forward to new postings that you have in the making. 👍

[@r12004rewy]

Also worthy of a mention was independent UK airline Channel Airways who operated a fleet of Viscounts mainly from Southend Airport in Essex , many were ex BEA but some were ex Continental and Channel retained the majority of the Continental livery they were known as 'Continental Golden prop jets ' my first flight was on one of these in circa 1968/69 to Amsterdam or Rotterdam.

[@JetFlix]

It wasn’t so much that I failed to mention them. I just couldn’t mention every single Viscount operator on the planet. This is just a selection of images that I had to present here.

[@r12004rewy]

@@JetFlix didn't mean to try and catch you out just thought I would mention it.

[@rEdf196]

I was a very young kid in the late 60's to early 70's when I saw many Air Canada Viscounts at Vancouver Airport and a closeup view and full powerup of a Air Canada Viscount at Sydney airport near Victoria BC when I was age a 7 year old in 1971. The last year of service with AC

[@JetFlix]

Actually, Air Canada retired their Viscount fleet in May 1974. Sounds like you’re about the same age as me, but the similar memories of the Viscounts here at YVR.

[@royalanania3306]

I am Venezuelan ,and the first time I flew was on an Aeropostal Viscount from Maiquetia to Maracaibo Grano de Oro,it was a great airplane will never forget.

[@JetFlix]

Fantastic to hear this Royal, I guess that was in the late 60s or early 70s. The Aeropostal Viscounts were delivered in the late 50s, so by today’s standards they did not remain in service too long .. only about 15 years or so.

[@royalanania3306]

@@JetFlix I was 7 years old 1966, and I was sent to US in the early Seventies ,and I can remember at least 6 on the tarmac Aeropostal Viscount,and Avro turbo props .my Father always took me to the airport with him when he needed to receive any US Embassy delegates ,They had a particular sound when taxiing,as the the Avro. I wanted to become a pilot,but destiny had other plans.

[@jgeldart7393]

worked with the Viscount as an TCA/Air Canada rampie back in the 60's, great aircraft!

[@JetFlix]

Did you take any 35mm colour slides of the aircraft back then, what airport did you work at?

[@Zoydian]

Lovely aircraft! Was thrilled to see a PLUNA example!

[@keithmills778]

When I was a little kid in the 1960s, the family flew from Calgary to Vancouver and back a few times on Vickers Vanguards and Viscounts. The first flight or two might have been on Trans-Canada Air Lines, and then Air Canada. Even at an early age, I was kind of a dick. Family lore says that on one flight, I asked a flight attendant (“stewardess,” in that era) how high the plane was. When she replied 30,000 feet (or whatever), I followed up with, “I see, and how wide is it?” I would have been about five or six at the time.

[@JetFlix]

I have similar memories Keith .. I was born in 1964 and did lots of Air Canada Viscount flights as a kid in the 1960s.

[@AidanEyewitness]

Great selection of photos. I often saw the Viscount at Manchester Airport in the 1960s, operated by Aer Lingus and others. I think the Aer Lingus shot is Amsterdam, but it's just a guess! Many thanks and thanks also for your fantastic work on Airliners LIve! I only just stumbled on your channel

[@JetFlix]

I too think the Lingus Viscount shot is Amsterdam. Welcome to my channel and I am always happy to meet a fellow Viscount fan.

[@CMan-rt9in]

Thanks for the video. I remember the first time I saw a T.C.A. viscount at the airport in Saint John, NB, Canada, I was about 10 years old. Had to cover my ears from those screaming engines ( but yet today they were a beautiful sound). The first Air Canada paint job I saw was on the Viscount and also my first commercial trip was on one also. Like #100.

[@JetFlix]

Your life experiences with the Air Canada Viscount are exactly the same as mine, I was born in 1964. Except I am in Vancouver.

[@CMan-rt9in]

@@JetFlix Forgot to mention when seeing your model collection, my Mom had a cousin in-law who was one of the first pilots trained to fly the R.C.A.F. Comet 1-A and my Dad was a private pilot, I remember flying with him in his SeaBees, CF-DLP and CF-DLS.

[@jeremyoshanohun4067]

Middle East Airlines (MEA) operated Viscounts around the Mediterranean and Middle East from Beirut with their famous cedar tree on the tail

[@JetFlix]

Yes indeed the MEA Viscount 700s were lovely😃😃.

[@donhayward9825]

My first plane ride, an hour circle tour out of Toronto International Airport (not Pearson then; he was still Prime Minister) on a geography field trip from U of T. We circled Lake Simcoe to look at the Cardin Plain. At times we were flying below the ducks in a four engine Viscount.

[@JetFlix]

Wow amazing Don!!! They did similar flights here in Vancouver with the Air Canada Viscounts. I was born in 1964 so flights on Air Canada Viscounts and Vanguards were the catalyst for my life long passion for aviation.

[@rickrockefeller1367]

Great video.. thanks. As a kid I remember looking forward to the Air Canada Vanguards at TPA... they were larger and looked so cool... had they own airstairs built-in.

[@MrPeterthepilot]

Rode the British Midland Viscounts from time to time. They were a big UK independent operating mainly domestic routes from the midlands area of England. Smooth with lovely big windows. Great vid, thanks...

[@JetFlix]

Thank you for the comment. As a child I grew up with Air Canada Viscount flights and memories in the 60s and early 1970s. Wonderful aeroplane the Viscount👏👏👏🇬🇧✈️

[@ramblerclassic400]

I recall hearing years ago that singer Ray Charles had a Viscount and I believe it was involved in an accident.

[@JetFlix]

Yes, this is true. He operated numerous examples over his career and one did end up in a cornfield I believe.

[@blue47er]

In the late 1950s I flew regularly in British European Airways Viscounts between Dusseldorf to Birmingham and then on to Manchester. I was in the Royal Air Force at the time. The fare - Dusseldorf to Manchester - was £15 sterling, an absolute bargain, and saved nearly 48 hours of travelling by rail and boat.

[@JetFlix]

You were lucky to have been able to experience this, right age at the right time. By any chance did you ever take 35mm colour slides of the airliners back then?

[@blue47er]

@@JetFlix As I didn't own a camera the answer is, sadly no. I have had the experience that, when the plane was less than a 3rd full, the first officer came down the aisle before we took off, to ask passengers to move so as to equalise the weight. Nowadays that never happens. Also, on one flight the pilot announced he was going down to 10,000 feet so that we could enjoy great views of the Dutch tulip fields - quite unforgettable that one.

[@torgeirbrandsnes1916]

I love it! Thank you very much! The last pic of the LH Vic at ca. 7 mins looks to like it is taken at ARN, Stockholm Sweden. Do you have any pics of the F-27?

[@JetFlix]

Glad you liked my video sorry no F27 pics handy.

[@nicholaswoodward8191]

SAA flew themtoo. My first flight as a 6 year old was in a VV

[@JetFlix]

Very nice memories

[@leoferreyra8606]

2:48... I'm surprised to see the CX-BJA... fortunately that magnificent Viscount was sent to the uruguayan air museum located at Carrasco airport (SUMU), awaiting for its restoration :).Thanks Henry for such an amazing video !.

[@JetFlix]

Thank you Leo. I saw the Viscount at Montevideo in the early 1990s painted in the 80s scheme as a display piece. I believe the Viscount was retired sometime in the late 70s.

[@leoferreyra8606]

@@JetFlix ...you are absolutely right Henry ! I'm glad that you have had the chance to visit my home airport and see the Viscount. Thanks for your great videos !! :)

[@leoferreyra8606]

@@JetFlix... minutes ago, I got some info about the CX-BJA from a friend in the Uruguayan air museum, and a couple of actual pictures (can send them to you if you are interested)... sadly the plane spent many years abandoned in the airport surroundings gathering a lot of dirt and corrosion. A couple of years ago it was rescued and cleaned up by them... it got a little better shape but needs some serious corrosion removal and obviously a new paint job... as far as they mentioned, they will switch to the correct 70's scheme as the one depicted on your video. Regards Henry !

[@JetFlix]

Hello Leo, yes I would love to see the photos. My email is henry at jetflix dot tv so please send them. Thank you!

[@jdnly9716]

You missed the Australian Viscounts.

[@louisesylviawood1256]

Vicount 800 had a fleet a Bournemouth boac my dad worked on it

[@semsemeini7905]

Flew on KLM, Alitalia, BEA, Air France Vickers Viscounts. Loved them.

[@JetFlix]

You are super lucky!!😀😀👍👍👍

[@javierjosechavezbenitez3707]

Beautiful !!! In addition to that Amazing, Irresistibly Evocative compilation I would like to add one of AeroSierra Durango (as in the Mexican state of Durango where I saw it, blue-on-white livery with those lovely roundy doors) and another of Arkia Israel Airlines that I saw on a British book. Thanks a lot, Friend!

[@keithseniuk514]

As a kid, I used to fly on Air Canada Viscounts to visit my grandmother in northern Ontario. I loved the huge windows.

[@JetFlix]

They were awesome all right .. and unique!

[@williamkrass6603]

Flew on a Capitol Airlines Viscount in 1957 from Pittsburgh to Atlanta, smooth flight.

[@JetFlix]

Great aircraft ahead of its time😄👍👍✈️✈️

[@igesravi]

SAN Servicios Aereos Nacionales was an Ecuatorian Airline, not a Colombian Airline

[@JetFlix]

You are right, I mispoke in saying SAN was Colombian as they were indeed an Ecuador based Viscount of the 1970s era. Thank you for clarifying this important historical fact.

[@freddielaker2707]

I flew on a few in my life and it was really quiet, I used to go to our local airshow and have a few flights at $2.50 each.

[@JetFlix]

$2.50 for a Vickers Viscount flight .. what a price! Was that in the 1950s?

[@freddielaker2707]

@@JetFlix it was the price for minors at the airshow I was at in 1972 and I went around 4 times, The aircraft was owned by Cambrian airways and was one of the first in service - G-ALWF it is now at the Duxford museum.

[@louisesylviawood1256]

So vicount something I’m interested in

[@stevek8829]

My first flight was in one, from Philadelphia to Dulles in ‘57. I was only 6 so had no idea it was turbine…nor what a turbine was.

[@JetFlix]

Thank you for sharing this Steve. I appreciate it. The Viscount was many of our first flights for those of us that were born in the 50s and 60s here in North America. My first flight was an Air Canada Viscount.

[@Alawi1964]

Great video. Iraqi airways had 5 aircrafts as well from the 50's till the mid 1970's. I was 6 when I flew with them in the early '70s from Baghdad to Beirut and Damascus. Also, Iran Air had few of these beautiful birds as well.

[@JetFlix]

You are indeed right, the Viscount was popular throughtout the Middle East serving with most of the carriers in the region. Photos are not so common except for the Iraq machines which came back to the UK frequently for servicing.

[@Alawi1964]

@@JetFlix That is correct. The IA and the KU birds were flying to the UK for the regular passenger service. The IR did not and was used regionally as I know.

[@peterlatty4187]

You missed Ansett-ANA and Trans Australia Airlines, both had substantial 700 and 800's fleets...

[@JetFlix]

My video was not meant to be an exhaustive survey of every single Viscount operator but thanks for the heads up.

[@estebancrespo3746]

SAN Servicios Aéreos Nacionales was an Ecuadorian airline based in Cuenca Ecuador, is not a Colombian airline

[@JetFlix]

Thank you for the correction

[@TheDaffygluk]

Question ? Is the Lockheed Electra a copy of the viscount

[@JetFlix]

Not at all, they’re two different sizes of aircaft serving different route lengths. The Viscount was a 50 passenger aircraft and serve short haul routes, such as a Vancouver Victoria, Toronto to Ottawa, etc. whilst the Electra was a 100 passenger aircraft serving much longer stage lengths.

[@davidjones8680]

There is, or was a Vickers Viscount at Tenerife North Airport the last time I was there in late 2019. I think they use it for emergency training. It can still be seen on gloogle earth. It's parked just past the right hand side of the apron. It was originally supplied to Aer Lingus I believe.

[@JetFlix]

I wonder if it is a former LAC Lineas Areas Canarias Viscount 800 as that would make sense.

[@davidjones8680]

@@JetFlix Yes i believe it is the Viscount you mention. If you go on google earth street view you can actually see the plane from the road. It still has its engines and propellers.

[@arturo3138]

Falta los de Saeta de Ecuador, uno de ellos se estrelló en el chimborazo en 1976.

[@javierjosechavezbenitez3707]

@@arturo3138 Aquí está el Saeta: 4:08 está hermoso.

[@redwineripple]

Mate i did not notice australian TAA or ANSETT ANA airlines viscounts

[@JetFlix]

Unfortunately, I didn’t have any photos of these airlines when I made the video but yes, they certainly existed. My video is not a documentation of every single Viscount that was ever made. It’s just a sampling including images that I had in my archive.

[@jdnly9716]

There are plenty of photos of Australian Viscounts online.

[@Marc-y9k]

You did not mention the French Companies (Air France, Air Inter, UTA, etc...). Is it voluntary ?

[@JetFlix]

This was not meant as a detailed expose of every single world operator of the Vickers Viscount, it is merely a sampling. Those not included should not be taken as on offence.

[@atatexan]

Austrian also a pretty livery

[@JetFlix]

Absolutely, very crisp and elegant👍👍

[@atatexan]

You could pinch a video of an Austrian Viscount from “Day of the Jackal”. Movie also has great scenes of a BEA Vanguard.

[@donaldsalkovick396]

That has the be the most upright windshield I've seen on a plane

[@JetFlix]

Vickers Vanguard also had a huge series of cockpit windows.

[@donaldsalkovick396]

@@JetFlix thanks Henry I'll check that one out

[@hoversurvey7468]

Channel Airways , the UK independent had a couple in 60's and 70's

[@JetFlix]

Thanks for the facts there

[@jkdm7653]

Capitol operated at least 40 Srs700s, which were perfect for that airline's congested midwest to east and northeast route structure. United acquired all of them when it absorbed Capitol in 1961.

You should consider that SAN was not a Colombian airline... It was from Ecuador.

[@JetFlix]

Thank you

[@eamonryan2198]

Henry, your knowledge of the tragic history of the Viscount is sadly lacking. Over one third of all Viscounts built were lost in crashes. Over 1600 people died in those crashes. The Australian grounded all Viscounts in the country in 1969 on safety grounds following a crash caused by a large section of wing and an engine falling off the aircraft. Most of those grounded planes were sold off to, mainly African airlines who's owners weren't aware of the plane's deadly reputation. The three ex KLM Viscounts that Aer Lingus acquired crashed, one at Tuskar Rock, after losing a horizontal stabilser. Please do a little more research on the Viscount.

[@JetFlix]

I never had a clue that Viscount was a dangerous airplane and that a third of the entire production run were involved in aircraft related crashes. This is completely new data for me if it is in fact, correct. If what you’re saying is correct there were over 150 fatal crashes, a Vickers Viscount that were the cause of the aircraft and I do not believe this to be true but if you have data to support it, I certainly can’t argue . .. it’s just news to me.

[@Wilhelm5381]

Central African Airways, predecessor to Zambia Airways,, Air Malawi and Air Rhodesia.

[@JetFlix]

Indeed .. great classic original factory Viscount operators.

[@josemaalouf4851]

Hi, just wanted to say that middle east airlines also had a fleet of vicounts

[@JetFlix]

Yes Jose you are right! MEA had a beautiful fleet of Viscount 700s. I am well aware but just did not have a nice image for my presentation.

[@ianbell8701]

Pratt & Whitney Canada operated a Viscount (CF-TID) as a flying test bed. She was originally used for PT6-50 development and later for PW117 and PW120 development. The aircraft was my first introduction to propulsion flight test. I believe that she is still in one piece and on display. If anyone knows where, please let us know.

[@JetFlix]

I did not know you started on the Viscount Ian. Wow!!! No video exists of it anywhere I supose.

[@ianbell8701]

@@JetFlix I don’t know of any videos Henry. I have photos of various configurations…incarnations as it were. Back in 1981 I was the stress engineer on the structural adapter between the Embraer EMB120 nacelle and the nose of the Viscount. I remember helping the fabricator, Leon Oligny, buck rivets on the adapter during Christmas of 1981. First flight of the PT7 (PW115) on CF-TID was in February 1982. There is a published photo showing the installation in “Power - The Pratt & Whitney Canada Story”, Sullivan & Milberry (page 264).

[@JetFlix]

Great memories Ian. Yes Inhave seen plenty of still images but movies or video of this Viscount probably do not exist, sadly.

[@hagadi1]

Israel " ARKIA AIR LINE" had a small fleet of the Viscount and Herald as well

[@JetFlix]

Also they had the 737-200 I flew on of Arkia between Eilat and Tel Aviv in 1993. It was leased from Aer Lingus and was in the Aer Lingus colour scheme.

[@redwineripple]

mate have you ever heard of australia they had many viscounts , ansett ana , taa,

[@JetFlix]

I was unaware thanks for telling me

[@warrenchinn4114]

😂

[@iandeans8709]

Great video of one of my favourite airliners...what a pity you ignored the sizeable fleets of Australian operators - TAA and Ansett-ANA. TAA (Trans-Australia Airline) was one of the earliest operators of the Viscount in 1954, and did, to some degree, have input into the design of the aircraft.

[@JetFlix]

Unfortunately I did not have high quality slide scans of these to include in my presentation.

[@paulfrancis5728]

yes I remember them at Kingsford Smith when I was a kid, there is a prop mounted on a post in remembrance to one that crashed in Botany Bay.

[@predatorec]

3:04 San was from Ecuador, not Colombia.... Great shots though

[@JetFlix]

rodolfo estrella you are right ... it is San Ecuador. I was doing the narration straight shot, and my mind had a glitch with that one. I also called the Eagle Viscount at New York as British Eagle. I think the two companies were associated to some extent. There could be a few other memory lapses that can be corrected, but for the most correct the information is pretty accurate.

[@rosssmith6205]

Please do your research before you produce your videos. No mention of TAA, the first airline outside of Europe to operate the Viscount. TAA, (Trans Australia Airlines.) operated the Viscount from the mid 1950's, a mixture of 700's & 800's. It was that popular in Oz that their competitor airline, Ansett, was given 3 of TAA's 700's in exchange for 3 DC-6's on the demand of the Australian government. One of them, VH-TVC broke up and crashed in Botany Bay after leaving Sydney and flying into a massive storm. Soon after that, radar was made mandatory for all passenger aircraft in Oz. (Airline A/C). I should know, I was a TAA apprentice and worked on all the Viscounts in the fleet. We had a saying:- "If you can see it with one eye, or feel it with one hand, but not necessarily at the same time, that component was perfectly accessible." Beautiful A/C to fly in. Also, one A/C, VH-TVR, an 800, was ordered by the Oz government to be the Prime ministers A/C. But as usual in government matters, order was changed to a BAC-111. TAA got the Viscount. There are still some A/C in museums in Oz to this day. PS. I later worked on BAE-146 A/C with Ansett. All of oldies referred to it as the Viscount 900. Same logic still being used in the 90's.

[@JetFlix]

Give me a frggin’ break dude .. I never said this is a video with each and every single Viscount operator!! Please tell me where I claim that! It is a celebration of a great airliner which I used the photos I had access to. It has nothing to do with “lack of research” ..

[@user-ce7ri3yn9c]

Perhaps nice to look at photos, but that misses the short comings of dreadful propeller whine, limited range and payload, and unforgetable dreadful smell on entering cabin with nearly all of them. Only it's early availability was in its favor and that didn't last long.

[@JetFlix]

Yes there was a smell you are right. Was it a mixture of lubricants I wonder?

[@schanche1965]

Wot no Dan Air London Viscount?

[@JetFlix]

This is not an exhaustive presentation of every single Viscount operator on the planet. It’s just a selection of operators, based on the images that I had when I prepared the video..

[@alimaliki3660]

what about iraki air line

[@JetFlix]

Yes they had Viscounts to about 1977/78.

[@DAVIDnBOSTON]

No Brittish Air Ferries viscount shots?

[@JetFlix]

British Air Ferries was a 1980s and 1990s era Viscount operator. This video was focused on the 1950s to early 1970s Viscount operators.

[@javierjosechavezbenitez3707]

@DAVIDnBOSTON I saw photos of those BAF British Air Ferries Viscounts You mention. And God Bless Boston - Great City and Great People !

[@plinkplanky]

No Channel Airways either but I suppose they just used a version of Continental's great shots though!

[@2201Duluth]

Northeast?

[@zulfione]

I protest. Pakistan 🇵🇰 International Airlines also operated Vickers Viscount.

[@zulfione]

Pakistan 🇵🇰 International Airlines purchased 5 these aircrafts in 1956

[@JetFlix]

Their Viscounts were wonderful but I had access to no such image from our archive to include it in this vidro.

[@philipdormer9434]

British airways finally retired their Viscounts in 1984. I am sure the BAC Engineers couls have encineered out that whine, that they made, if hey had wanted.

[@JetFlix]

I guess so!! I could listen to that sound all day long! I guess the volunteers at the Weybridge museum must love it too!

[@RayhanAhmed-qr3vz]

PIA viscount has not been included ? Why ?

[@JetFlix]

Give me a break dude there’s been so many people that have pointed out Viscounts that aren’t in this video. I never suggested that this was a video about every single Vickers Viscount ever delivered on planet Earth. You guys are busting my balls and I hate it.