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Old 25th Dec 2001, 06:57
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[quote]They were terribly proud of the 'double bubbble' fuselage on the Guard's Van, as it made
rooom for a lot of freight.<hr></blockquote>That would explain why AC hung onto them as freighters for a few years after they took them out of pax service around 1971. They kept the Viscounts until '74, whe they went all-jet for passenger traffic.
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