Originally Posted by
Rutan16
The Viscount had charisma charm beautifully tuned Darts and passengers who weren’t afraid to place their luggage where its MENT to go and that’s not in the cabin !
Air travel was still a pleasure and flying for many had a sense of adventure through the seventies .
By the way the London - RAF ST Mawgan route was maintained by the even more esoteric Herald both BMA and Byrmon for many years.
Yes... indeed... I totally agree.... I grew up with the Viscounts in the 60s and 70s... the only beast in the sky that could better them was the Vanguard. Mind you, I flew a flew times on the Blue Islands ATRs flights from Jersey to Geneva or Zurich, every time in the front row left hand side, and that was also beautiful ! Last night was on G-ECOK and it was shaking like a tumble dryer but, once again it was so nice flying in a small turboprop from Heathrow !