My very first flight was on a Viscount from either Teesside or Newcastle to Heathrow in 1968, then we got a taxi to Gatwick to catch a BUA VC10 to start a new life in Zambia. I must confess that I’m not sure the Viscount made a big impression on me, but the VC10 certainly did. It fired a strong drive to become a pilot.
Maybe someone could shed some light on which airline the Viscount would have belonged to, possibly BMA which I’m guessing flew from both Newcastle and Teesside?