Originally Posted by
RodH
In 1964 I was an F/O on the V720 & V832 models and hated every minute of it.
Whilst it was way ahead of it's time it did not have a very good safety record at all and being a single spar did not help the feeling of dread when flying it.
It was not all all comforting nor nice to fly in it , was always apprehensive.
The happiest day of my aviation career was leaving the Viscount to fly the B727.
RodH as a real small kid my dad and I watched aircraft from the observation deck at Essendon. May have seen you start up those darts
or JT8Ds and do a full lock tiller turn to get that wiff of kero. Your generation inspired me as with the black & white adds, Up up and away with TAA
and Ansett's Leonardo Da Vinci/marvel swan T/O.
How ironic last night watched The Beatles in Oz -Live remastered and the first 5min shows them landing in VH-RMK, disembarking, traveling around the
airport in a flat bed truck.