A Virtual Museum dedicated to the Vickers-Armstrongs Viscount

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Here are a few to get you started.</h3><br /> <div class="BoxOutCenterYellowMasterPage"> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkAA" class="a" title="In the Beginning" href="Pages_History/History.aspx">In the Beginning</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkBB" class="a" title="The Turboprop World-Beater" href="Pages_History/The_Turboprop_World-Beater_VISCOUNT.aspx">The Turboprop World-Beater</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkBB2" class="a" title="Sir George Edwards" href="Pages_History/SirGeorgeEdwards.aspx">Sir George Edwards</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkBB3" class="a" title="The Rolls-Royce Dart" href="Pages_Technical/Rolls-RoyceDart.aspx">The Rolls-Royce Dart</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkCC" class="a" title="The Prototype Viscount" href="Index/VickersViscount001History.aspx">c/n 1 G-AHRF V.630<br />The Prototype Viscount</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkDD" class="a" title="The Tay powered Viscount" href="Index/VickersViscount002History.aspx">c/n 2 VX217 V.663<br />The Tay powered Viscount</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkEE" class="a" title="The V.700 series prototype" href="Index/VickersViscount003History.aspx">c/n 3 G-AMAV V.700<br />The V.700 series prototype</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkFF" class="a" title="The first BEA Viscount" href="Index/VickersViscount004History.aspx">c/n 4 G-ALWE V.701<br />The first BEA Viscount</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkGG" class="a" title="The oldest surviving Viscount" href="Index/VickersViscount005History.aspx">c/n 5 G-ALWF V.701<br />The oldest surviving Viscount</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkHH" class="a" title="The first Air France Viscount" href="Index/VickersViscount008History.aspx">c/n 8 F-BGNK V.708<br />The first Air France Viscount</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkII" class="a" title="The first Aer Lingus Viscount" href="Index/VickersViscount030History.aspx">c/n 30 EI-AFV V.707<br />The first Aer Lingus Viscount</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkJJ" class="a" title="The first TCA Viscount" href="Index/VickersViscount040History.aspx">c/n 40 CF-TGI V.724<br />The first TCA Viscount</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkKK" class="a" title="The first TAA Viscount" href="Index/VickersViscount044History.aspx">c/n 44 VH-TVA V.720<br />The first TAA Viscount</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkLL" class="a" title="The first Iraqi Airways Viscount" href="Index/VickersViscount067History.aspx">c/n 67 YI-ACK V.735<br />The first Iraqi Airways Viscount</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkMM" class="a" title="The first Canadian DoT Viscount" href="Index/VickersViscount070History.aspx">c/n 70 CF-GXK V.737<br />The first Canadian DoT Viscount</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkNN" class="a" title="The first BOAC Associated Companies Viscount" href="Index/VickersViscount071History.aspx">c/n 71 VP-TBK V.702<br />The first BOAC Associated<br />Companies Viscount</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkOO" class="a" title="The first Hunting-Clan Viscount" href="Index/VickersViscount074History.aspx">c/n 74 G-ANRR V.732<br />The first Hunting-Clan Viscount</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkPP" class="a" title="The first Fred Olsen Viscount" href="Index/VickersViscount077History.aspx">c/n 77 LN-FOF V.736<br />The first Fred Olsen Viscount</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkQQ" class="a" title="The first Indian Air Force Viscount" href="Index/VickersViscount079History.aspx">c/n 79 IU-683 V.723<br />The first Indian Air Force Viscount</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkRR" class="a" title="The first Capital Airlines Viscount" href="Index/VickersViscount088History.aspx">c/n 88 N7402 V.744<br />The first Capital Airlines Viscount</a></p> <p><a id="ctl00_HyperLinkSS" class="a" title="The first Butler Air Transport Viscount" href="Index/VickersViscount097History.aspx">c/n 97 VH-BAT V.747<br />The first Butler Air<br />Transport Viscount</a></p> </div> <br /> <h3>This website does not use cookies or capture your details</h3> <br /> </div> </div> <div id="wrapper"> <form name="aspnetForm" method="post" 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href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Newsletters/Brian%20Burrage%20interview%20with%20Airplane%20Geeks.aspx">September 2011 special</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Newsletters/Newsletter1110.aspx">October 2011</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Newsletters/Newsletter1112.aspx">December 2011</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a>2010 newsletter archive</a> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Newsletters/Newsletter1001.aspx">January 2010</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Newsletters/Newsletter1003.aspx">March 2010</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Newsletters/Newsletter1005.aspx">May 2010</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Newsletters/Newsletter1007.aspx">July 2010</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Newsletters/Newsletter1008.aspx">August 2010</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a>2008 newsletter archive</a> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Newsletters/Newsletter0807.aspx">July 2008</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Newsletters/Newsletter0808.aspx">August 2008</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Newsletters/Newsletter0809.aspx">September 2008</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Newsletters/Newsletter0812.aspx">December 2008</a></li> </ul> </li> <li><a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Newsletters/Newsletter Archive.aspx">Pre 2008 'Viscount news' and 'Restoration news'</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <div id="MainContentTop"> <h1>Welcome to our Viscount Museum</h1> <br /> <div class="BoxOutCenterHomePageDavid"> <img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_NickWebImage" src="images/Paintings/David%20Carter%20Butler%20Air%20Transport%20VH-BAT.jpg" style="border-width:0px;" /><br /><br /> <span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_NickWebLabel">Butler Air Transport V.747 Viscount c/n 97 VH-BAT</span> </div><br /><br /> <h2>The Viscount story started in the early 1940s</h2> <div class="BoxOutRightHomePage"> <img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_ConcordeImage" src="images/Photos_Other_Small/Concorde2.jpg" alt="Photo of Concorde" style="border-width:0px;" /> <h5>Concorde</h5> </div> <p> The idea to develop the Viscount (initially known as the Viceroy) was born during World War II at a time when things were going far from well and few people were thinking much about civil aviation. To some people in 1942, it may have seemed strangely unrealistic of the British Government to appoint a group of experts, known as the Brabazon Committee, to examine post-war requirements for transport aircraft. In their recommendations, however, lay the origin of an idea that was to develop into one of the most successful British civil aircraft ever built. </p> <p> The Viscount was designed by George Edwards (later Sir George Edwards), who was for a quarter of a century from 1950, the dominant figure in British aviation, both civil and military. His name is synonymous with the Viscount, the world's first gas turbine-powered aircraft to carry fare-paying passengers on a scheduled service, and Concorde, for which he led the British team throughout its formative period to customer delivery. </p> <p><a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Pages_History/SirGeorgeEdwards.aspx"><img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_Image1" src="images/Photos_Other_Small/VVN%20Button%20Logo.gif" style="border-width:0px;" />Sir George Edwards</a> </p><br /> <p> In its time the Viscount was just as pioneering as Concorde was 20 years later. Indeed, in many respects, the Viscount was a more successful aircraft than Concorde. </p> <div class="BoxOutLeftHomePageYouTube"> <iframe width="640" height="440" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dd-0hrfndg4" frameborder="0" ></iframe><br /><br /> Flight test of British Air Ferries (BAF) V.806 series Viscount G-APEY<br />on the 14 March 1993 at Rochford, Southend, Essex, England </div> <p><a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Pages_Film/F-1993-03-14.aspx"><img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_Image7" src="images/Photos_Other_Small/VVN%20Button%20Logo.gif" style="border-width:0px;" />More Viscount film</a> </p><br /><br /> <h2>The Viscount was designed using cutting edge technology</h2> <div id="AdSenseRolls-RoyceLogo"> <img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_RollsRoyceImage" src="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Rolls-Royce logo 1.png" src="" alt="Rolls-Royce logo Logo" style="border-width:0px;" /> </div><br /> <p> Vickers-Armstrongs developed the Viscount in tandem with Rolls-Royce's development of the Dart, the world’s first commercially successful propeller gas turbine (turbo-prop) engine. Almost certainly neither would have succeeded without the other. </p> <p> <a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Pages_Technical/Rolls-RoyceDart.aspx"><img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_ButtonImage1" src="images/Photos_Other_Small/VVN%20Button%20Logo.gif" style="border-width:0px;" />The Rolls-Royce Dart</a> </p><br /><br /> <p> The 1950s and the 1960s were sensational times in aviation and Britain led the world in commercial aircraft development with pioneering designs like the Vickers-Armstrongs Viscount and the de Havilland Comet. Packed with the latest 1950s cutting edge technology, the Viscount was operated by both large and small airlines throughout the world and was to remain in service for over 50 years. </p> <h2>Preserving the memory of the Viscount</h2> <p> Our virtual museum is dedicated to preserving the memory of this groundbreaking and highly successful British aircraft and consists of over 20,000 pages of information, photos and films that are assessable with just a few clicks from the menu bar at the top of each page. On the information bar on the right-hand side of each page, we have selected a few of these pages to get you started. </p> <div class="BoxOutLeftHomePageLarge"> <img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_RandomImage" title="Photo of Trans-Australia Airlines (TAA) Viscount VH-TVS c/n 436 February 1959" src="images/Photos_Medium/111809.jpg" alt="Photo of Trans-Australia Airlines (TAA) Viscount VH-TVS c/n 436 February 1959" style="border-width:0px;" /> <div id="HomePagePhotoOwner"> <span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_Label1">Trans-Australia Airlines (TAA)</span> </div> <span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_Labelb1">VH-TVS, c/n 436,</span> taken <span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_Labelc1">February 1959</span><br /><br /> <div id="HomePagePhotoText"> <span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_Labeld1">The sale to Trans-Australia Airlines (TAA) named as 'George Evans' was not completed. Taken at Hurn Airport, Hampshire, England in February 1959 on the production line in the Erecting Shop.<br /><br />It was eventually delivered to the Iranian Government <br /><br />Note the integral front 'airsteps' lying on trestles in the foreground.<br /><br />This was the last Viscount to be built at Hurn.<br /><br />Vickers Photo Ref MP12608.</span><br /><br /> </div> <div id="HomePagePhotoCopyRight"> <b><span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_Labele1">Photo source - BAE Systems Heritage Photographic Archive</span></b> </div> </div> <p> Start your visit by finding out how the Viscount was born during World War II at a time when things were going far from well and few people were thinking much about civil aviation. Discover the operational records and photos of the 444 Viscounts built together with film from British Pathe and Viscount history from owners and operators. </p> <p> Read our 'Live Magazine' where stories and photos are added daily by members and non-members located throughout the world. You will never miss a story as you can scroll back to the very first one added when we introduced this popular service. </p> <p> <a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Pages_History/History.aspx"><img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_ButtonLogoImage1" src="images/Photos_Other_Small/VVN%20Button%20Logo.gif" style="border-width:0px;" />'In the Beginning'</a> </p><br /> <br /> <div id="AdSenseFlightLogo"> <img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_FlightLogoImage" src="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Flight logo.png" src="" alt="Flight Logo" style="border-width:0px;" /> <br /></div> <p> Discover the history of the Viscount with contemporary reports from the pages of Flight Magazine. Finish your visit by taking a slide show where you can travel back in time and enjoy yourself revisiting the long and colourful life of the Viscount. No two slide shows will be the same and are illustrated with photos from our archive that dates from 1948 through to today. </p> <p> <a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/FlightMagazineReports/1946-10-17.aspx"><img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_Image4" src="images/Photos_Other_Small/VVN%20Button%20Logo.gif" style="border-width:0px;" />Flight Magazine reports</a> </p><br /><br /> <p> Please enjoy your visit and don't forget to return regularly as new material is being added all the time - check out the 'Latest 60 photos' on the menu bar. </p> <p> <a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Pages_Photos/RandomPhoto.aspx"><img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_ButtonLogoImage2" src="images/Photos_Other_Small/VVN%20Button%20Logo.gif" style="border-width:0px;" />Viscount slide show</a> <a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Live%20Magazine.aspx"><img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_ButtonLogoImage5" src="images/Photos_Other_Small/VVN%20Button%20Logo.gif" style="border-width:0px;" />Live Magazine</a> </p><br /><br /> <h2>The Vickers Viscount Network has a membership and following in over 89 countries</h2> <p> Why not join our friendly, international and free membership where members come from all walks of life - pilots, engineers, artists, authors, model makers, pilots of computer simulators, airline passengers, and plane spotters, just to name some. Whatever their interest our members have one thing in common - the Viscount. </p> <p> <a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/MailList.aspx"><img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_ButtonLogoImage3" src="images/Photos_Other_Small/VVN%20Button%20Logo.gif" style="border-width:0px;" />FREE membership details</a> <a href="http://www.vickersviscount.net/Newsletters/Newsletter1604.aspx"><img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_Image5" src="images/Photos_Other_Small/VVN%20Button%20Logo.gif" style="border-width:0px;" />Newsletters</a> </p><br /> <h3>Preserving the Memory of the Vickers-Armstrongs VC2 Viscount</h3><br /> <h1>Vickers-Armstrongs VC2 Viscount</h1> <h2>1948 - <span id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_ToDateLabel">2024</span></h2> <p> It was during the 1940s that Vickers-Armstrongs and Rolls-Royce proved that the gas-turbine engine was the power plant of the future by developing the world-class Viscount passenger aircraft and Dart engine. </p> <p> 'Commercial flying', an airline passenger of the first half of the 20th Century once observed, 'is 90% boredom and 10% fright'. </p> <p> This is the story of an aircraft that was instrumental in altering this opinion. It is the story of a remarkable aircraft that so shattered the accepted notions of travel comfort and airline economics that its standards became accepted as a yardstick by which other forms of transport were measured. It is the story of the first turbo-prop airliner in the world, and the first transport type ever to break America's monopoly of the commercial aircraft market. </p> <div class="BoxOutLeftHomePageLarge"> <img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_GAHRFImage2" src="images/Photos_Medium/107257.jpg" alt="Prototype Viscount c/n 1 G-AHRF" style="border-width:0px;" /><br /><br /> The prototype Viscount, the sole V.630 series, G-AHRF </div><br /> <div class="separator"></div> <h1>Notable firsts:-</h1><br /> <div class="BoxOutLeftHomePage2"> <img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_CFTGIImage" src="images/Photos_Small/106871.jpg" alt="TCA - Trans-Canada Air Lines Viscount CF-TGI" style="border-width:0px;" /> <h5>Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA)</h5> </div> <p> 29 July 1950 - C/N 1 G-AHRF operated by British European Airways Corporation (BEA) became the first gas turbine-powered aircraft to carry fare-paying passengers on a scheduled service anywhere in the world when it departed Northolt, Middlesex, England as flight number BE392X2 to Le Bourget, Paris, France. </p> <p> 13-17 February 1953 – C/N 3 G-AMAV owned by the Ministry of Supply became the first gas turbine-powered passenger aircraft to cross the North Atlantic. </p> <p> 1 April 1955 – C/N 42 CF-TGK of Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) operated the first gas turbine-powered scheduled revenue service in North America as flight number 265 from Montreal, Province of Quebec to Winnipeg, Manitoba via Toronto, Ontario and Port Arthur, Ontario (known as Thunder Bay since January 1970 when it amalgamated with Fort William), Canada. </p> <p> 4 April 1955 – C/N 42 CF-TGK of Trans-Canada Air Lines (TCA) operated the first international gas turbine-powered scheduled revenue service in North America from Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Idlewild, New York, USA (since 1963 known as JFK - John F Kennedy airport). </p> <div class="separator"></div> <div class="BoxOutRightHomePage"> <img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_GALWFImage" src="images/Photos_Small/100636.jpg" alt="The oldest surviving Viscount G-ALWF" style="border-width:0px;" /> <h5>British European Airways<br />Corporation (BEA)</h5> </div> <p><br /> The Viscount was born of a post World War II belief that the gas-turbine in one form or another was the power plant of the future. A statement of this belief has now become unexceptional and unchallenged, but in 1945 it was none of these things. </p> <p> There were at the time more people willing to prove conclusively that gas turbines would never be economically suited to passenger operations than there were converts to rebut them. </p> <p> In those pioneer days the arguments on both sides were still based on theory, plus on the side of those who supported the gas turbine, a considerable degree of faith. </p> <div class="separator"></div> <div class="BoxOutLeftHomePage2"> <img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_GAOYPImage" src="images/Photos_Small/134371.jpg" alt="The oldest surviving Viscount G-ALWF" style="border-width:0px;" /> <h5>Virgin Atlantic Airways</h5> </div> <p><br /><br /> When the Viscount was in full production, Vickers-Armstrongs won orders from some 60 customers worldwide, amounting to a return of £177 million for the 439 aircraft sold. </p> <p> Later the number of operators greatly increased as examples came onto the second-hand market, usually to play a large part in improving the carriers' financial position. </p> <div class="separator"></div> <div class="BoxOutRightHomePage"> <img id="ctl00_ContentPlaceHolder_PegasusImage" src="images/Photos_Small/758812.jpg" alt="Pegasus Aviation Viscount 3D-PFI" style="border-width:0px;" /> <h5>Pegasus Aviation</h5> </div> <p><br /> The Viscount saw service throughout the world on both passenger and freight services and although the majority had been withdrawn by the start of the 21st century, a few soldiered on. </p> <p> Numerous examples of this classic Vickers-Armstrongs design have been preserved for posterity. 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