Channel Airways
Also my favourite aircraft hence my log in.Many happy days handling Viscounts in Guernsey. Start up was interesting with GPU behind the wing. You would stand under fuselage behind wing until all 4 engines running then disconnet cable and walk under fuselage to take nose wheel chocks away (all without ear defenders). On 1 occasion when I was about 17 gave a big tug to disconnect cable aircraft went on to Bournemouth. An hour later Bournemouth ring to say who disconnected ground power as you took out aircraft electrics. On looking at GPU plug we found a couple of pins from aircraft. Was not popular, aircraft had to do battery starts for the rest of the day.
In Channel we used to get up to 84 in the 800 series where other companies str.etched to 78, could mean interesting time doing the loadsheet when a/c was full.
Shortest sectors flown Gci-Jer and Bhx-Ema whilst longest 4 hrs Ema-Bgo