Emeritus.
The RAAF had two VIP Viscounts in 34 Sqn when I was a boggie there in 1967.
One was purchased from Union Carbide Corporation and the other was from the Shah of Persia. Both were nice a/c and very resplendent in interior furnishings, and both had slipper tanks as I remember. The extended range was not great.
Centauraus is your man as he was 34 Sqn at about that time, hey John.
There is a great story about two F/O’s flying one to Parabadoo or Newman with all the press for the opening of the the first iron ore mine in Hammersley. This was because the two VIP Captains, Warwick Addison and Ray Drury, on the new BAC-111 insisted on flying the Prime Minister, Harold Holt, who opened the mine. All those years ago.
The Viscount, although a success, was a pilots ergonomic nightmare. The Normalair air conditioning system and the dump valve, were something else.Best at the time I guess.
JO.