Originally Posted by
thetimesreader84
2 engines, well, you'd get turned out of the way of pretty much everything else on the airway, you were so slow. 240kt TAS in the cruise, if you were lucky.
I think it was in Propliner magazine where a writer had managed to get a flight deck ride in one of the very last Viscounts around, and found they were slowly overhauling a new ATP as they went along !