Vickers Viscount : Are those engines bent?
Hoping there might be an engineer with intimate knowledge of the Viscount who can help clarify a little confusion around the engine angle.
All the Vickers drawings seem to indicate the engine centrelines are parallel to the fuselage waterline, although they don’t actually specify the angle anywhere.
Looking closely at photos it appears the engines have a negative angle of somewhere around 0.5 to 1.0 degrees on most models. Some later aircraft appear to have the engine parallel to the fuselage waterline, such as V 808 (G-BBDK) and V 806 (G-AOGY).
I can’t work out if this is an optical illusion created by the shape of the cowls, or whether there was an angle to it.
Hoping someone can set me straight.
Juanita