I flew the Viscounts .
Airsupport.
No mate , you are not the only one to remember the Viscounts.
I flew the horrible things as an F/O in 1964.
What an absolute heap of crap they were. Everything that could go wrong with them seemed to do so.
In the short 7 months I was on them I had :
2 Engine failures
Several air conditioning heating problems resulting in lifting the carpet in the cabin and manually operating the system.
Two diversion due to low fuel in bad WX ( they had bugger all endurance )
Tyre shredded on take off
Starboard undercarriage jammed up ( Townsville Airport ) and only managed to extend it after 5 tries and about 3 minutes before a belly landing was to be carried out.
I must say that the poor old Viscounts were being used in an environment they were not really designed for.
It was designed for short to medium hops in Europe's cold / cooler weather but not the longer sectors and hot/ very hot trips we had them do.
When we used to do a tech stop in Mt Isa in summer we had to put a blanket over the controls as most of the cockpit was roasted in the overhead sun at noon. I reckon the temp in the cockpit was about 50C as there was no A/C and the ground blowers were about as effective as a fairies fart.
The day I left to go on to the B727 in 1965 was a huge relief !!