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[25] Viscount cabin windows were huge ellipses, 19 by 26 inches. [N 2] [27] Viscount operational costs were lower than many rival aircraft; [28] Vickers projected a 700 could carry a 13,000-lb payload from Chicago to New York in 2 hours 45 minutes against a 10-mph headwind, burning 6395 lb of fuel. [29]
Production variant for South African Air Force with Dart 510 engines, a VIP interior and slipper tanks, one built, delivered in June 1958. [4] Type 782 Production variant for Iranian Airways with Dart 510s and 48 seats, three built with the first delivery in March 1958. Were convertible to VIP interior for the Shah of Persia. [4] Type 783
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 ...
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 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 ...
An airline passenger posted a photo of his unique seat assignment on social media, which prompted other travelers to react. The flyer said his seat put him "halfway into the aisle."
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.
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