Viscount with slipper tanks?

I am a volunteer at Brooklands Museum in Surrey, we have two Viscount slipper tanks that arrived with G-APIM, we did fit them to G-APIM in the early 90s but removed them later as they were never used on this aircraft. The Viscount team have just rescued one of them from deep storage and plan to refurbish it for display.

The two other Viscounts with Shackleton Avn at Baginton at the time were the ex ETPS 700 series aircraft XR801 and ‘802, not to be confused with the ex RAE aircraft mentioned earlier in this thread.

Tim

Viscount 837, OE-LAK, at Baginton in January 1972. Shackleton Aviation at the airfield had a few Viscounts at the time including the two RAE aircraft – without Darts by the time I photographed them!

Spotted this one in my collection and recalled this thread.

A Keith Price photo, taken at Manchester, early 1978, of one of two former Omani Viscounts in storage pending sale on the Fairey hangars Apron.

Slipper tank is evident, but not clear as on some of the links earlier on this thread.

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Here we are then. Hope I’ve done justice to your original picture, Adrian. Incidently the caption in the book gives a different location to the one you mention in your post above, but it makes no difference to me.

Regards, Cabbage

Ah yes, I was thinking about XT661 which is on the rear cover of the book, which also wore slipper tanks. I took XT575 at Fairford on 12th July 1985. Sorry about that.

Here we are then. Hope I’ve done justice to your original picture, Adrian. Incidently the caption in the book gives a different location to the one you mention in your post above, but it makes no difference to me.

Regards, Cabbage

Thanks for the permission to copy and show the picture, ADRIAN.

Will do so the next time I’m off work, Early next week. ( I work permanent nights, 6 on, 3 off ).

Regards, Cabbage

There is a glorious picture of Viscount XT575, in “Rasperry-Ripple” colours, in the book, “TESTING COLOURS” BY ADRIAN BALCH.

It has slipper tanks fitted, and a large radome fitted under its forward fuselage.

I could scan and display the picture, but I’m not sure of the copyright restrictions.

Cabbage

It’s my book and my photo so please go ahead and scan and post the pic which I took at Abingdon in Sept 78 just before a storm broke overhead!

I hold myself up as a shining becon of stupidity that once again proves always google before you post!
Cheers, Dan

I’ve thought to do it – you’ve done it! 😉

http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19771020-1

N55VM.

The Lynyrd Skynyrd crash was a Convair CV-300

there you go, I always thought it was a Viscount… :stupid:

Why do you Poms [guess who came second in the cricket?:love-struck:] always seem to build aircraft without enough internal fuel…? Do the designers think that the needs stop at English Channel?

Thanks for identifying the Duran plane. What an incredible history it has had – http://www.vickersviscount.net/Index/VickersViscount391History.aspx
Sad that it seems to have been left to rot away.

Found it! Photo on here –

http://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2013/dec/10/duranduran-photography#/?picture=424536164&index=5

Guess the “Duran Duran” photo shows N150RC – you can find in the www other photos of the same plane chartered by “Aerosmith”, “Rod Stewart” and “The Police”

Martin

So am I right in saying there were different designs of these tanks? If you compare Scorpion’s picture above of XT661 (in which the tank seems to wrap around the wing) with the one of the Duran Duran tour plane –

http://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2013/dec/10/duranduran-photography#/?picture=424536164&index=5 in which they seem more flush to the top of the wing. Simple progression or a difference between military and civil standards?

Both types on civil used ac
Type I http://www.airliners.net/photo/Philippine-Airlines/Vickers-784D-Viscount/0134499/L/&sid=ab0d6bf23148ec871d8d6b5f3cf2717d
Type II http://www.aussieairliners.org/viscount-inter/dot%20canada/0128.018.html

I’m not sure how generic it was but certainly the NZ NAC Viscounts (type 807) still had the plumbing in place for the tanks to be fitted.

In the case of ZK-BRF both ends of the lines are blanked off but obviously ready to be connected. In the under wing skins one can see the attachments for the tanks blanked off with rubber plugs.

The lines ran from the wing bays aft of the outer engines into the flap bays where they terminated at the under wing skin (in the fwd of these bays they would have interconnected with other plumbing by way, I assume, by replacement of one piece of plumbing which passes through the fwd bay and which the end of the line to the flap bay terminates nearby).

hth

“Much correspondence has flowed regarding slipper tanks on Viscount aircraft recently. In our previous Newsletter the focus was on NZNAC – New Zealand National Airways Corporation having the fittings but in fact the Corporation’s V.807s never had the actual tanks fitted, even during the delivery flights, as indicated on ZK-BRF’s above photo.”
http://www.vickersviscount.net/newsletters/Newsletter1110.aspx

So am I right in saying there were different designs of these tanks? If you compare Scorpion’s picture above of XT661 (in which the tank seems to wrap around the wing) with the one of the Duran Duran tour plane –

http://www.theguardian.com/music/gallery/2013/dec/10/duranduran-photography#/?picture=424536164&index=5 in which they seem more flush to the top of the wing. Simple progression or a difference between military and civil standards?

Here is a nice image of Viscount XT575
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nog59/7973674776/sizes/l/in/photostream/

Lynyrd Skynyrd’s Viscount could have done with a set of those!
I’ll get my coate….
Dan.

The Lynyrd Skynyrd crash was a Convair CV-300