I loved this plane. When I was a kid in the 50's, the Viscount was the closest thing we had to a jet. My Dad worked for Trans Canada Air Lines (TCA, now Air Canada), and all my previous youth flights had been on the North Star (DC-4M), a very loud piston propeller plane. When the Viscount was adopted by TCA, my Dad called it feminine because it was much smoother and quieter; not a "man's" plane. I have no opinion on that; I just loved flying, anything. If you go to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, you can see a DC-7, which is like a slightly bigger DC-4. Here's a Wikipedia link to a TCA DC-4: http://tinyurl.com/hd2ayeu
Glad you liked it. You'd think they could have at least put headers on the Merlins, you know, direct the exhaust away from the passenger cabin, but I suppose speed was the thing.
I loved this plane. When I was a kid in the 50's, the Viscount was the closest thing we had to a jet. My Dad worked for Trans Canada Air Lines (TCA, now Air Canada), and all my previous youth flights had been on the North Star (DC-4M), a very loud piston propeller plane. When the Viscount was adopted by TCA, my Dad called it feminine because it was much smoother and quieter; not a "man's" plane. I have no opinion on that; I just loved flying, anything. If you go to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum, you can see a DC-7, which is like a slightly bigger DC-4. Here's a Wikipedia link to a TCA DC-4: http://tinyurl.com/hd2ayeu
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Chris Doutre
Glad you liked it. You'd think they could have at least put headers on the Merlins, you know, direct the exhaust away from the passenger cabin, but I suppose speed was the thing.
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