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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 ...
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]
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.
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
The magazine was published by three publishing companies and changed editors once, with William Green and Gordon Swanborough as joint editors for 16 years and Ken Ellis as the sole editor for the final 16 years. [1] The magazine ceased publishing with issue #131 (September/October 2007), becoming part of Air International magazine. [2] [3]
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A report published in the American magazine Time a fortnight later described the incident as "a genuine horror story, calculated to make the most alarming of Rhodesian doomsday prophecies seem true." [ 28 ] The white community in Rhodesia heard the news with fury, and many turned their minds to exacting retribution for what they and many others ...