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The Vickers Viscount is a British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 ... the Vickers Viscount Model 700 appears to be considerably superior to ...
Vickers Viscount variants Viscount 708 Role Airliner. National origin ... Viscount 700. Type 700 The first production version, 1,381 hp (1,030 kW) engines, 287 built ...
The wing of the Vickers Viscount used a single main spar made up of a centre section in the fuselage, two inner sections and two outer sections. The main spar comprised an upper boom, a shear web and a lower boom. The aircraft was designed and type-certificated to the principle of a safe-life. Before a component reaches its safe-life it must be ...
Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 304 [1] was operated by a Vickers Viscount 700 aircraft owned by Trans-Canada Air Lines.On July 9, 1956, the No. 4 propeller of the aircraft tore loose from its engine over Flat Rock, Michigan in the United States, during a flight from Chicago, Illinois, to Toronto, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec; one blade of the propeller sliced through the passenger section of ...
On 22 December 1959, a VASP Vickers Viscount 827 registration PP-SRG while on approach to land at Rio de Janeiro-Galeão was involved in a mid-air collision with the Brazilian Air Force Fokker S-11 (T-21) registration FAB0742 in the vicinity of Manguinhos Airport. All 32 people on board the Viscount were killed, as were a further ten on the ground.
For the first time in U.S. history, military aircraft were used this past week to deport scores of undocumented migrants from the United States. Middle schools, Trump administration officials say ...
Demonstrators gather near the U.S. Capitol on Presidents' Day to protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's actions during his first weeks in office, in Washington, D.C., U.S., February 17, 2025.
(3 Vickers Viscount 700/800 series, 9 Vickers Viking 1/1A/1B 3 Avro 685 York) (as of April 1958) Destinations: British Isles, Continental Europe, Mediterranean, East Africa, Central Africa, Southern Africa, West Africa: Parent company: Hunting-Clan Air Holdings: Headquarters: Bovingdon Airport (1946–1955) London Airport (1955–1960) Key ...