Originally Posted by
Doctor Cruces
Worked for BMA at MME when we did four LHR rotations a day with the Viscount. Lovely aircraft had several jolleys to LHR, OST and once did a day long "W" MME-JER-CDD-JER-MME. Seemed to fly a lot with Joe Sharps and Jim Smee.
A good book for a really in depth development story is The Handbook of the Vickers Viscount. Can't remember the author but it's a very good read.
Jim Snee still meets up quarterly with the "BMA Old Timers" at my late uncle's former pub near Castle Don. He probably has plenty of Viscount tales.
Joe Sharps did LHR-MME in 38 minutes in a Viscount. I understand that he was rather sporting in the London TMA, though.