VICKERS VISCOUNT CLASSIC AIRLINES SERIES 1950s 1960s | JETFLIX

Video from the channel JetFlix about Vickers, linked on its Above Ten Thousand entry. Duration: 8:38. Language: English. Video type: Documentary.

A narrated tour through period photographs of the Vickers Viscount in the liveries of the airlines that operated it between the 1950s and 1970s. The narrator gives each image a brief comment on the operator, the aircraft series (700 or 800) and the approximate place and date of the shot.

The video presents the Viscount as a British airliner with four Rolls-Royce Dart turboprops, developed in the late 1940s and early 1950s, whose turbine propulsion marked a leap in comfort, speed and range over the piston aircraft it replaced.

Among the operators featured are BEA, with a large fleet of 700 and 800 series aircraft that later passed to British Airways; Lufthansa and its charter subsidiary Condor; Aer Lingus, KLM, Alitalia, Air Canada and Trans-Canada Air Lines; Capital Airlines, which merged with United in the early 1960s; Continental, VASP, Cubana, Aeropostal de Venezuela, South African Airways, Air Rhodesia, New Zealand National Airways and Merpati in Indonesia, as well as British independents such as British Midland, Cambrian, British Eagle and British United. Much of the footage comes from an online photo archive which the author thanks.