#Vickers Viscount

[nocternalrandomness]

1958 Vickers Viscount Airliner on static display at the Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, Pennsylvania

[stairnaheireann]

#OTD in 1968 – An Aer Lingus plane, the St Phelim, crashed into the sea near Tuskar Rock, Co Wexford, killing all 61 passengers and crew.

The plane, a Vickers Viscount, was on a flight from Cork to London Heathrow when it crashed into the sea near Tuskar Rock without warning. There were no survivors. St Phelim was an 11-year old Viscount with the Vickers aircraft very popular with Aer Lingus for short and medium haul flights. A total of 20 were in service over almost two decades with the carrier. The passengers and crew were from…

[airmanisr]

G-AOJE, Vickers V.802 Viscount, Heathrow, c. June 1975 by Gordon Riley Via Flickr: With Trident 3B G-AWYZ behind

[frimleyblogger]

Murder In Vienna

A late Robert Macdonald novel from E C R Lorac which gives a fascinating insight into 1950s air travel and #Vienna #CrimeFiction #amreading

A review of Murder in Vienna by E C R Lorac – 230313 The last time I was in Vienna, the city centre was knee deep in snow which made an enchanting backdrop to the stunning architecture that graces the Austrian capital. One of Lorac’s strengths as a writer is her sense of place, her ability to convey an impression of the grandeur of the buildings, the delightful expanses of the parks in a few…

[bigglesworld]

Vickers 739A Viscount 'City of Glasgow'. With a BEA Vickers Vanguard in the background. At LHR EGLL in 1965

[nimbushobby]

Vickers Viscount - New Zealand National Airways Corporation

[meta-holott]

1977 Indonesia, Borneo, East Kalimantan, Balikpapan. Flight with an old Vickers Viscount from the Merpati company — From Java (Surabaya) to Borneo (Balikpapan)

[brianfrench1995]

Pearl Air Vickers Viscount Postcard

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[airsllides]

airsLLide No. 9665: Z-YNB, Vickers Viscount 748, Air Zimbabwe, Harare, December 7, 1993.

Although retired in December 1990 already, the old Visocunt still looks pretty good and is in remarkable shape after three years of inactivity. The reason is fairly simple, as it is parked on the ramp in front of the airline's mechanics training school where it served as instructional airframe.

[pix4japan]

Boarding Stairs to Turboprop Airliner

Location: Warehouse Terrada G1 Building, Tennozu Isle, Tokyo, Japan Timestamp: 14:47 May 9, 2023

At the main entrance of the Accidentally Wes Anderson (AWA) exhibition in Tokyo, the first thing you'll notice is a snapshot featuring boarding stairs to a Vickers Viscount turboprop airliner from around 1948 taken by Paul Fuentes, a photographer based in London.

The photographer behind this composition is Paul Fuentes who is  based in London. His signature style revolves around pastel-colored compositions that draw inspiration from the vibrant urbanscape of Palm Springs, California. Fuentes' work seamlessly aligns with the essence of the AWA exhibition.

One notable aspect of the AWA exhibition is its departure from the usual art exhibition norms. Rather than discouraging photography, it openly encourages visitors to take snapshots and share their experiences on social media. This interactive approach adds to the unique charm of the exhibition.

Located on Tennozu Isle in Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo, the AWA exhibition will be open until May 26th, allowing visitors ample time to immerse themselves in this captivating world of accidental Wes Anderson-esque aesthetics.

Fujifilm X100V (23 mm) with 5% diffusion filter ISO 640 for 1/250 sec. at ƒ/2.0 Provia/Standard film simulation

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 11.17 (after 1950)

1950 – Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama. 1950 – United Nations Security Council Resolution 89 relating to the Palestine Question is adopted. 1953 – The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland. 1957 – Vickers Viscount G-AOHP of British European Airways crashes at Ballerup after the failure of three engines on approach to Copenhagen Airport. The cause is a malfunction of the anti-icing system on the aircraft. There are no fatalities. 1962 – President John F. Kennedy dedicates Washington Dulles International Airport, serving the Washington, D.C., region. 1967 – Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports that he had been given on November 13, U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson tells the nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking…We are making progress." 1968 – British European Airways introduces the BAC One-Eleven into commercial service. 1968 – Viewers of the Raiders–Jets football game in the eastern United States are denied the opportunity to watch its exciting finish when NBC broadcasts Heidi instead, prompting changes to sports broadcasting in the U.S. 1969 – Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki, Finland to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides. 1970 – Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre. 1970 – Luna programme: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and is released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft. 1973 – Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook." 1973 – The Athens Polytechnic uprising against the military regime ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. 1983 – The Zapatista Army of National Liberation is founded in Mexico. 1986 – The flight crew of Japan Airlines Flight 1628 are involved in a UFO sighting incident while flying over Alaska. 1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakia, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeds on December 29). 1990 – Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan, becomes active again and erupts. 1993 – United States House of Representatives passes a resolution to establish the North American Free Trade Agreement. 1993 – In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup. 1997 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by six Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre. 2000 – A catastrophic landslide in Log pod Mangartom, Slovenia, kills seven, and causes millions of SIT of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in Slovenia in the past 100 years. 2000 – Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru. 2003 – Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s tenure as the governor of California began. 2012 – At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt. 2013 – Fifty people are killed when Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashes at Kazan Airport, Russia. 2013 – A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes. 2019 – The first known case of COVID-19 is traced to a 55-year-old man who had visited a market in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China.

[real-boeing-757]

Vickers V.803 Viscount

a plane I haven’t heard of?? impossible

[crazygadgetshere]

3 yıl önce bitenlerden 1/200 ölçek custom THY Vickers Viscount 794D TC-SEV 17 ...

[bigglesworld]

Vickers 815 Viscount. This particular aircraft suffered a fatal crash in 1969. Photographed with a departing BAC 111. At Ringway in 1968

[the-man-in-the-wind]

The utterly beautiful Lockheed constellation. Seeing these alongside Vickers Viscounts, Boeing Strato Cruisers and Douglas DC-6s on the apron at Speke Airport when I was a small boy, is what got me into aviation.

Bataan VC-121 A - Lockheed Constellation

[philwriter-blog]

Manufacturing timeline by decade post 1951

In the fifties, factories, shipyards and textile mills were busy places striving to sell exports to balance the nations books, so much so that we had never had it so good. The Vickers Viscount graced the skies. The sixties was a time for change, for the white heat of technology. The motor industry produced the Mini and the Jaguar E-type. The QE2 was launched. GEC joined with English Electric and…