But what was Virgin Atlantic doing with this aircraft, and why Maastricht, of all places? Back when Virgin Atlantic acquired the Vickers Viscount, low-cost carriers were not nearly as widespread ...

From the early innovation of the Vickers Viscount to the unique features of ... life in 1983 as one of Airbus' earliest commercial aircraft. It was a big, economical passenger jet that featured ...

At 11:19 p.m., on April 6, 1958, the four-engine Vickers Viscount 745D was on its final ... then an explosion as the aircraft struck the ground. A number of secondary explosions followed as ...

(“Slim”) Carmichael, tall, tanned and smiling, snipped the symbolic ribbon fastening Capital’s first Vickers Viscount turboprop airliner to the runway. Minutes later, loaded with paying ...

study the bomb-loading guidelines in a P-3 Orion and step into the fuselage of a Vickers Viscount turboprop. It isn’t a pretty display. These are aircraft that no longer carry troops ...

An example of the smooth flying of the Vickers Viscount was given by one of the crew during the flight A cigarette was placed on its end on one of the aircraft’s attachable seat trays and ...

Sixty years ago today a Vickers Viscount aircraft - the star of the British European Airways fleet - crashed a short distance from Manchester Airport runway. But no memorial plaque has ever been ...

Minutes before landing in Naples, where it was scheduled for a stopover, the Vickers Viscount aircraft was involved in a mid-air collision with an Italian air force jet, crashing into a small ...

Pictures: Patrick Browne Wreckage of the Vickers Viscount aircraft being brought ashore at Rosslare in 1968 A man who lost his brother in the Tuskar Rock air tragedy 50 years ago has said that ...

Tuskar Rock Photos: Patrick Browne Wreckage from the Vickers Viscount aircraft is brought ashore at Rosslare in 1968 Photos: Patrick Browne Wreckage from the Vickers Viscount aircraft is brought ...