Was it the engines or the props that we so noisy on the Vanguard ? The engines are twice the power of the Darts on the Viscount, the props had much more power to handle.
Originally Posted by SpringHeeledJack
As an aside is that a Vanguard to be heard in the background of the Beatle's song "Back in the USSR" ? I always held it to be such, but then again maybe it was a Viscount
Well, BEA Vanguards never served Moscow, although a Merchantman freigher converion made it later when Chi-Chi the London Zoo panda was taken to the USSR for a naughty weekend with An-An, the Moscow zoo panda
. Moscow was Comets from its inception until the time of the song. A real geek at the studios would have got a recording of an Ilyushin 18.