After the last Vickers Viscount passenger flights took place in the England in 1997 was there are interest in keeping one in airworthy condition in the UK? A group like Air Atlantic would have been the perfect home for such fine British propliner.

Quite right, but too late now! The Science Museum had earmarked G-BFZL at Southend when it was retired from British World Airlines and it was planned to go to the collection at Wroughton. Alas, they left it too late to organise it’s last flight and it became unairworthy. In their infinite wisdom, the Science Museum decided it was too costly to transport it by road. Another one lost… 🙁

Could it be one of these stored in Indonesia?

PK-IVU 843 456 Stored at Jakarta by Bouraq.
PK-IVY 843 455 Stored at Jakarta by Bouraq.
PK-IVZ 843 451 Stored at Jakarta by Bouraq.
PK-MVG 828 445 Stored at Jakarta by Merpati.
PK-RVP 832 414 Stored at Jakarta by Mandala.
PK-RVS 816 416 Stored at Jakarta by Mandala.

No afraid not, G-AOHT ended up with British Air Ferries being broken up at Southend in March ’91. 🙁

The aircraft behind the right hand Caravelle looks like a DC-7.

No, it’s an Ilyushin IL-18 of LOT, about the only operator of the type into Heathrow in the ’60s. Behind that appears to be a Packet, or more specifically TWA’s Fairchild C-82 delivering engine spares.

Patience will win the day, as I am gradually acquiring all the ‘sold out’ models I need at reasonable prices.

Albert – you might well find that the length of the Caravelle exhaust in comparison to something like a Hunter is completely different and that affects the noise pattern it generates.

Yes, I’m sure you’re right. I do recall the Caravelles as being rather noisy also!

By coincidence Mark12, I was looking through the old pictures box and found these, taken with my useless Ilford Sporti 4 in the 60’s.
First picture taken at Heathrow 1963, the camera would never point in the right direction, probably aimed at the Vanguard, I like the advert behind the Viscount.
Second picture taken from a different spot, about 4 Viscounts there, trying to identify the aircraft in the background is interesting.
Third picture taken at Jersey 1966, waiting to board the BM Herald in the background, had very hairy flight back to East Midlands Airport through a thunderstorm, preffered the rough ferry crossing.
Fourth picture, taken the same day, no Viscounts but I like the Ambassador in the background.
I’ve got a few more here If anyone is interested, no Viscounts though.
Have some great colour slides taken at Heathrow that day by my brother but can’t reproduce them here.

Great stuff Peter…more…more! 🙂 Guess the BM Herald was G-ASKK, which was the first one they had in 1965.

Viscount photos wanted

I was very lucky to be a passenger on the very last Viscount flight out of Heathrow, British World’s G-APEY. I have such a love for the type that I am trying to obtain a photos of every one built and put them on a CD. If anyone has any official Vickers air-to-air photos of Viscounts they could scan,or any ’50s or ’60s photos, please can you send a PM to me? Would be pleased to send anyone that helps a copy of the CD. 😉

Ah, reading through all your lists, I guess the majority of you are under 40 years old, as there are very few propliners in the lists. There are far too many boring Airbus and Boeing flights recorded, until you come to Interflug 62M’s list which shows he is ‘rather maturer’ than the majority and has flown on some truely wonderful propliners. Like him, I have experienced a good variety of types and here is my list:

Airbus A300 – Thai International, Olympic
Airbus A310 – TAROM
Airbus A320 – Iberia
Douglas DC-10 – British Caledonian
Douglas DC-3 – Sunbird Aviation
Douglas DC-3 – Air Atlantique
Douglas DC-6 – Air Atlantique
DH 84 Dragon – Chrisair, Aer Lingus
Boeing 707 – British Airways, Cathay Pacific Airways
Boeing 727 – Iberia
Boeing 737 – British Airways, TAROM, Olympic, Transaero
Boeing 747 – British Airways
Boeing 757 – Air 2000, Iberia
Boeing 767 – SAS
MD-82 – SAS
Vickers Viscount – British World
BAe 146 – PSA, Royal West, Jersey European

and I know you won’t accept military, so I won’t include all the RAF Britannias, Comets and VC-10s! 😎