Airspeed Viceroy

Airspeed A.S.8 Viceroy G-ACMU Colours

If you are interested in the colour scheme of the Airspeed A.S.8 Viceroy G-ACMU, look no further than Flight magazine dated 11 October 1934.
The colour scheme is red and white. Judging by the tone of contemporary photographs it appears to be close to post office red.

I know its an old thread but just in case you’re still looking for info on Thomas Neville Stack try this link.

http://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1949/1949%20-%200385.html

Ian

Putnam’s ‘British Racing and Record Breaking Aircraft’ has a photograph of Airspeed A.S.5A Courier G-ACJL that took part in the 1934 Mac.Robertson race. The colour scheme is described as being light and dark blue. There is a photograph of the Viceroy (which also took part) a few pages on, and the tonal shades look similiar – is it not feasible that Airspeed shopped both aircraft out in the same scheme for the race?

If anyone’s got a copy of Neville Shute’s autobiography ‘Sliderule’ to hand, I’m sure there are references to the Viceroy in there. (His ‘day jobs’ included founding Airspeed!)

If there’s no luck before the end of the day, I’ll dig out my copy when I get back home tonight.

(I’m trying to find the full names and history of the pilots -N.Stack and S.L.Turner[/QUOTE]
Probably Neville Stack. His son T.N. Stack (Tom Neville Stack) rose to Air Rank in the R.A.F.
He is actually referred to in the Putnam Airspeed book in the entry on the Viceroy ( Capt. T. Neville Stack) and in a lot of contemporary acounts. (E.g. Penrose’s British Aviation – Widening Horizons)

There is a Spanish Civil War rendition of the Airspeed Viceroy on this page http://www.zi.ku.dk/personal/drnash/model/spain/did.html
I know this is an old thread but I picked up on it after finding that my father put the Viceroy through its C of A at Martlesham October 6-8 1934 in order for it to compete in the McRobertson race on October 20. You might pick up a colour scheme from material about the race. (I’m trying to find the full names and history of the pilots -N.Stack and S.L.Turner).
Cheers – if you completed the model I’d love a pic!

Cheers for that JDK, I’ll have a hunt about for those magazines. I wonder if “The Aeroplane” and “Flight” published annual indexes in the 1930s?

Best wishes
Steve P

Hi Steve,
Acording to British Civil Aircraft, Vol 1, Jackson, the only Airspeed AS8 Viceroy G-ACMU appears in a two colour scheme, but there are no notes as to what they are in the book.

The photo in the book, credited to Aeroplane, at Mildenhall 1934 shows a light coloured fuselage with a very dark top and bottom, scalloped around the nose, light wings underside and tail plane undersude dark tops to the engine naiceles and tail and tailplane and egine cowlings. ’58’ for the race on the tail in a light box and dark registration on the fuselage and underwing.

Could be any number of coulours, but black and cream or dark blue and white seem to suit the tonal range.

If you get hold of contemporary issues of Flight or The Aeroplane there may well be colour notes there.

HTH