Originally Posted by
Airbanda
Vickers Viscount.
Used one twice. Early 1979 from Leeds Bradford to Heathrow on second flight of day on a Sunday. Stand by fare was cheaper than the Standard Class train fare my employer punted up.
Then in 1997 from EMA when G-APEY was doing the farewell flights.
There was a long and enjoyable thread about the Viscount, I can't immediately locate it but it was here in Pax&SLF, and had lots of pix. A more recent one was
Viscount memories . In a thread about 'What was the first aircraft you ever flew in?' the Viscount came up tops. Everyone seemed to have fond memories of the huge windows, the lack of noise and vibration compared with a piston-engined aircraft, but many remembered flying through storms that it couldn't fly above.