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Description
| Manufacturer: | Vickers | |
| Base model: | 745 | |
| Designation: | 745 | |
| Version: | D | |
| Nickname: | Viscount | |
| Basic role: | Commercial Transport (UK) | |
Specifications
| Length: | 81' 2" | 24.7 m | |
| Height: | 26' 9" | 8.1 m | |
| Wingspan: | 93' 8.5" | 28.5 m | |
| Gross Weight: | 64,500 lb | 29,251 kg | |
Propulsion
| No. of Engines: | 4 | ||
| Powerplant: | Rolls-Royce Dart 506 | ||
| Horsepower (each): | 1400 | ||
Performance
| Cruise Speed: | 276 mph | 444 km/h | 240 kt |
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| Mid-Atlantic Air Museum | Reading | Pennsylvania |
745D on display
Mid-Atlantic Air Museum |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Mark Lincoln , TX | The crew of Ray Charles Viscount were trained by Capital, as were those of US Steel.
My father was a Viscount pilot for Capital, and the story around the airline was that Charles liked to take the controls and did pretty good considering he was blind. 05/12/2008 @ 09:39 [ref: 20851] |
| Lois Kreidler Scranton, PA | I am sorry, my other message I didn't leave my email address
alfie1320@aol.com 05/07/2008 @ 18:29 [ref: 20825] |
| Lois Kreidler Scranton, PA | My sister and her daughter were on that plane. I was 9 years old at the time. My mother died in 1990 and I can still hear her say that she never buried her daughter and granddaugher. Any information anyone can tell me please email me. Thank You. 05/04/2008 @ 12:44 [ref: 20793] |
| Debbie Dzula , VA | I have the newspapers from the 1960 Charles City plane crash. 02/13/2008 @ 18:15 [ref: 19665] |
| Capt.Rick Ft.Lauderdale, FL | As a child I grew up in Nassau Bahamas, I can still hear the sound of the four darts,We lived very near the airport, we traveled on Bahamas Airways Viscounts often to Miami to see my Grandparents.I could always tell a Viscount going over their house in Miami. My Uncle was a First officer on the BAL Viscounts. There is a photo of a BAL Viscount701 on another site shown in Ft.Lauderdale back in the mid 1970's just before it was cut up for scrap, I had the misfortune of driving by that day when then chopped off the tail, when they took a lunch break I was allowed to go inside for a few minutes, the cockpit still had green leater seats from it's original airline Aer Lingus. 11/15/2007 @ 17:02 [ref: 18548] |
| Geoff Blampied Norwich, NC | I am the co-founder of the Vickers Viscount Network a virtual museum dedicated to the VC2 Viscount. We are looking for information and photos to help us complete the history of each and every Viscount built. If you can help please visit www.vickersviscount.net and/or contact us at information@vickersviscount.net
Our organisation has volunteers located all over the world with only one thing in common - the Viscount. 10/18/2007 @ 11:13 [ref: 18229] |
| Laura Key Charles City, VA | My Aunt Lucille Tench lived on the property that the crash took place. I rented her home back in 1999, and 2000. My husband and I went to the site and believe it or not, we found pieces of the plane still in the creek bed. We kept them in the Basement, but when we moved I left them there. It was definately something to see... 10/01/2007 @ 16:05 [ref: 18074] |
| Mark Lincoln Houston, TX | My father, Chester Lincoln, John Meriman, and John Perkins, were all to board the flight from Washington to Norfolk as 'dead heads'. They were all 'bumped' from the flight by paying passengers.
I awoke that morning to the sound of my mother sobbing in the living room. She thought her husband was dead. They are both alive in May of 2007, 47 years later. Do not EVER, doubt just how much chance affects your fate. 05/17/2007 @ 17:54 [ref: 16508] |
| Mark Lincoln Houston, TX | My father, Chester Lincoln, John Meriman, and John Perkins, were all to board the flight from Washington to Norfolk as 'dead heads'. They were all 'bumped' from the flight by paying passengers.
I awoke that morning to the sound of my mother sobbing in the living room. She thought her husband was dead. They are both alive in May of 2007, 47 years later. Do not EVER, doubt just how much chance affects your fate. 05/17/2007 @ 17:54 [ref: 16507] |
| George Haeh Toronto, ON | In the mid '50s our father would take me and my sister from dreary Toronto back out West for the Summer. We came to hate the North Star, a Merlin-powered DC-4. It was noisy and slow.
Our first flight on the Viscount had us hooked. We loved the windows, the quiet and the speed. Somehow I think it was the most comfortable airliner I've ever paxed including the new jets, but maybe when you're smaller, everything's spacious anyway. After getting my Commercial IFR, I discovered that the Toronto Board of Education was running courses on a Viscount simulator that was donated by Air Canada to Ryerson (then a polytech, now a university) and later handed down to the Board. The simulator computer was a maze of gears, wheels, shafts and chains... The simulator itself only had pitch and roll and no visuals. A number of components did not work: such as the nosewheel steering and the glideslope which had no slope and an NDB approach that wanted a 45 degree correction crossing the beacon. It would not trim out on four, but flew quite nicely on three. The instructor had a habit of failing items one after another until you crashed. I usually managed to survive except when he failed my airspeed and I did not hear any complaints about airspeed from the right seat. You sure learned to keep up your scan. I did the sessions for a few years and one night, I was the only one who showed up because of some misunderstanding; so had the beast to myself for two hours flying NDB approaches with 4, 3 or 2 engines. 02/13/2007 @ 18:35 [ref: 15510] |
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