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This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 November 2024. British four-engined medium-range turboprop airliner, 1948 Viscount Cambrian Airways Vickers Viscount General information Type Turboprop airliner National origin United Kingdom Manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs Status Retired Primary users British European Airways Capital Airlines Trans ...
The retirement life of the wing spar of a transport category aeroplane type-certificated to the safe-life principle is based on a safety factor applied to data obtained from flight tests and information about properties of the spar material. The life of 11,400 flights for the Viscount inner lower boom was based on safety factors of 3.5 for the ...
Vickers 773 Viscount in about 1958 Production variant for Iraqi Airways with Dart 506 engines and 48 seats, one built, delivered in November 1957. [4] Type 774 Production variant for Saudi Arabia with Dart 510s, not built. [5] Type 775 Production variant for Yugoslavia with Dart 510s, not built. [5] Type 776
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.
The aircraft was a Vickers Viscount 803 which flew under tail-number EI-AOM and had been in service since 1957 with a total of 18,806 lifetime flight hours. [6] Aer Lingus operated approximately 20 Viscount aircraft in the 1950s and 1960s, of which two others were involved in serious incidents.
on YouTube (British Movietone News, 1957) "No.14. British European Airways Vickers Viscount G-ALWE (Accident Report)" (PDF). ICAO Circular (56–AN/51). International Civil Aviation Organization: 76. 1957. Archived (PDF) from the original on 28 February 2022
The Vickers Vanguard was a short/medium-range turboprop airliner designed and produced by the British aircraft manufacturer Vickers-Armstrongs.. The Vanguard was developed during the mid-to-late 1950s in response to a specification issued by British European Airways (BEA) for a 100-seat airliner; Vickers decided to design such an airliner as a follow-up to the existing Viscount series, the ...
The founder was Richard T. Riding (1942–2019), whose father, E.J. Riding, had been photographer for The Aeroplane magazine of the 1940s. [1] The magazine is now owned by Key Publishing Ltd and headquartered in Stamford, Lincolnshire. [1] The magazine is the successor to an earlier, weekly publication called The Aeroplane, founded in 1911. [2]