Originally Posted by
Judd
I don't know about that Leddie. The RAAF flew two Viscount 832's for a couple of years and as far as I recall we had no problems with them. They were a delight to fly and the soft undercarriage made greasers out of landings that in other types would be hard. The RR Darts were very reliable and I don't recall any in-flight shut down due engine malfunction. Not like the RAAF Convair 440 Metropolitan, where we had engine failures, engine start-up fires and a spate of un-commanded in-flight featherings and in one memorable case a runway propeller after lift off at Canberra.
Judd,
Just add up all the Viscount in AU that were lost, the severe fatigue problems with all of them, but particularly the 700 series, then re-consider your statement.
The RAAF 800s never accumulated enough hours /cycles to start falling apart.
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