Aircraft Model (Name & Manufacturer)
Vickers Viscount by Vickers-Armstrongs
Aircraft Category
Choose one: A / B / C / D / E / F
Wingspan: 28.55 m to 28.56 m (93 ft 8.5 in)
Purpose or Role in Game
Regional turboprop aircraft designed to be a short fast regional airliner. A response to the 1943 Brabazon Committee’s proposed Type II design for a postwar, small, medium-range, pressurised aircraft to fly less-travelled routes, carrying 24 passengers up to 1,750 mi (2,816 km) at 200 mph (320 km/h).
Why should this aircraft be added?
What does it add to the game in terms of gameplay variety, realism, or strategy?It would add an historic airliner type to the game for use as a player aircraft and as special events, or if old airports appear in the future, as a regular contract at them. It is also a rather special part of British aviation history being a global seller and one that flew from the 1950s until 2009. Originally developed from the Vickers Viking, itself a variant of the iconic WW2 Wellington bomber.
Airlines that use it
List a few major operators (real-world), especially those already in WoA.
Military and government/corporation operators,
Special characteristics or variants
Main variants,List of full here.
Optional: Links or references
Vickers Viscount - WikipediaThe Turboprop World-Beater VISCOUNT
https://www.airliners.net/aircraft-data/vickers-viscount/380?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic
https://heritage.baesystems.com/page/vickers-viscount
A BEA example with a Trident and the Viscounts successor, the Vanguard (Soon to be its own suggestion), in the background,
Cambrian,
National (New Zealand),
British Airways,
At Liverpool,
At Cardiff,
Virgin Atlantic,
Northeast (UK, photo at MAN),
Trans-Canada Air Lines,
United Airlines,
British Midland,
Ansett-ANA,
Turkish Air Force,
PLAAF (China Air Force),
Lufthansa,
Air Inter,
Aer Lingus,
Air Canada,
Parcel Force cargo variant,
And lots more.
