Viscount

I’m still flying 727 every week.

Chris

I agree….one really should be kept in shape for the occasional flight in the UK.

Say what you will about maintaining a flying Vulcan, the Viscount is an equally important part of UK aviation heritage…if not more so.

Amazing how such an icon could just disappear from the skies.

Likewise the 707, 727 (I thought they’d be around forever…it’s been years since I’ve seen one fly) Concoords and Comets.
As an author wrote upon seeing airliners in a boneyard….
“…how strange we outlive these marvelous modern machines, and so quickly, too.”

Cheers Mark and Mark. I was reading the Datafile in the latest A*******e and it made me wonder. Amazing how such an icon could just disappear from the skies.

There are one or two potential flyers in Africa – in Congo. Don’t believe the reports that they’ve all been scrapped. G-APEY definitely still exists.

A massively significant aircraft – needs bringing back as a flyer!

Hello Jim,

I dont believe there are any Viscounts now operating, but the people best to ask are over at http://www.vickersviscount.net/

regards

Mark Pilkington