Great memories, thanks for posting. My first flight was on a Viscount in 1965, I was 4 years old. Got air sick, lost my teddy bear and I still thought it was the greatest experience ever!
Truly a defining video for me. At age 10 in the late 50s, the screaming whine of Capital Airlines (US) Viscount RR Darts departing the gate at CRW aiport scared me to death. I learned quickly to appreciate the orchestrated mixing of sounds from the Dart gas generator, reduction gears, prop drive, and the blade aero frequencies was a symphony. That, more than anything, led me to a career in military and civil gas turbine propulsion engineering. So glad you captured this footage, Mike.
My father flew them for Continental Airlines in the sixties, until they were replaced by the DC-9. I rode in them. This also brings back memories, particularly the sound.
G-APEY. I used to lay on my back in my parents garden circa 1970 and watch this aeroplane fly directly over head as it was on final approach to Leeds and Bradford Airport. Surprised to find out it was still flying in 2005 in the Republic of Congo. If it could talk😁✈️
Many people love the distinctive sound of the RR-Darts. I myself like the sound of the Darts, but it sounds even better if it's accompanied by the sound of the props. The props themselves make a "Chafe Cutter" or "Box Fan" sound in taxiing, and buzz like the wings of a bumblebee in takeoff and inflight.
Last time I flew on this was in 1974. I was 8 years old. Never forget this sound. Its minted in you, when you hear it, it brings memories of that era. Superb!
On the turboprops that I've known and flown on, the sound of the props was much more audible over the whine of the jet engines that spin the props. In taxiing, the props made a "chafe cutter" or "Box Fan" sound. In takeoff and inflight, the props made a bass hum, what I call the "Bumblebee" sound, that drowned out the whine of the jet engines. That misleads many into believing that the turboprop engine is a turbocharged piston driven propeller engine. But on the Viscount, with the Darts, you can tell it's a jet engine, and it sounds much more like a pure jet engine, like those of a Boeing 707.
@@jackyclaiborne2142 I remember in the 60s in Australia when they flew overhead at altitude, they sounded exactly like a jet ! The screaming whine sound was evident in the ground from outside. But inside they sounded like a deep bass hum. Amazing aircraft!!!
This reminds me of going to jersey with my family in the 1970s I was around 10 yrs and was so excited going on a plane. The best bit was after taxiing on the runway it stops then the engines get louder and off you go fast faster along the runway then up you go. Happy days wish I could relive them
boy do i remember my flights aboard the Continental Airlines Viscounts. This film is from the same seat I was in, front of the cabin. I remember the Rolls-Royce emblem clearly on the engines too. it was very comfortable, and wonderfully British...i loved it. It also had the biggest windows I can remember on a plane- gave you a great view.
Flew in and out of Jersey (CI) more than 200 times in the 1970´s and early 80´s. Nothing like the sound of a Viscount and the smell of the fuel. Amazing British aircraft ahead of it´s time.
What a great sound from those RR Darts! My all time favourite aircraft. Flew in the Viscount 700 with TAA in 1967. So memorable! I was 13 years old. The view from those large windows was magnificent! I loved watching those engines starting up and the sounds of the various speeds. In this video she is taxiing fast! When I flew Pipers we had to taxi slow. Flying in the Viscount was a trigger for me getting a pilots license. I wish I could fly in her or pilot her today! I noticed that she is a really fast plane - notice the speed on take off!
The Uruguayan company "Pluna" operated the Vickers Viscount from year 1958 to 1987. It flew from Montevideo to Buenos Aires and Montevideo yo Rio de Janeiro .... it did its job very well....
I think that those planes were MAJESTIC. and i also think that the best time to be a Pilot was from 1950 to the 80"s. No computers,...just human control and perspective.....thats what a pilot is , the brain of the plane, the love and passion about aviation.
Totally agree, you had Connies, Dc3-DC7, Electras, Vangurds, Heralds, F27s, IL18s, Convairs…..Heaven on earth, today it’s a sadder world, zjets are so boring..
1960 Southend to Rome ...I was 9 and I have never forgotten the view out the window the same as the video just ...exquisite ! Bit frightning cos my first flight but..... well done Tradair !
We lived in Holland throughout the 70s and our UK home and family were in Essex so we regularly flew between Southend and Rotterdam on British Air Ferries - wonderful memories and loads of funny stories.
Nothing like the Vickers Viscount.That name says it all.The different octaves from those turbo-props,WOW!!!!!!! It was 1954 I remember, leaving the DAMP,WET "the dirty-city" (Detroit) from Willow Run Airport.The snow in Milwaukee was clean and powder white.My family and I travelled by steam engines/streamliner (The HIAWATHA) or plane every CHRISTMAS to see my Grandparents in the village of Hartland.They lived on CAPITOL DRIVE. The snow left on Detroit's tarmack:dirty black slush.On the tarmac in front of us, the ever beautiful CAPITOL AIRLINES VICKERS VISCOUNT with that smart RED and WHITE LIVERY and those cutting edge ,sharp, squared off propellers. The smell of the fuel,the smell of the cabin;I loved every second of on the Capitol Airlines VICKERS VISCOUNT. My Mom knew all of its history.She kept repeating that name,VICKERS VISCOUNT and that we were so blessed to be flying CAPITOL AIRLINES.Excellent food,lovely friendly Stewardesses and friendly pilots looking smart in their uniforms. I wish each start-up of each engine would last FOREVER!The taxi from tarmack to runway.MY GOD!!! The different pitch of those whining RR engines!!!! THANK YOU for uploading this video , bringing such wonderful memories back !!!!!!! We flew with CAPITOL AIRLINES from 1954 to l958. Sometimes we flew with Northwest Airlines.They used the clunky,noisy,BUMPY DC-6s.Very UNCOMFORTABLE ,constant vibration.We felt beat up after. flying on those DC-6s.
My Dad flew out of Southend for Channel Air Ferries and British United. He also flew out of Stansted (when it was Nissen huts) and my Mum once saw a Viscount land so heavily (at Stansted) that a wheel came off, bounced down the runway and demolished a small building. I have loads of happy childhood memories of Southend airport.
I love the Vickers Viscount!!! The POWER! THAT WHINE,and yes,that smell of its fuel. My Mother,brothers,and I flew on The Viscount for Capitol Airlines in the early 1950s. At Christmas time we would board the plane at Willow Run Airport.Dirty blackened,slushy snow coverd the ground.We flew during summer months and Chrisltmas from Detroit to Wisconsin to see my Grandparents.They Lived on CAPITOL DRIVE in a little village called HARTLAND.And it was "HEARTLAND"to me ! Leaving dirty Detroit,flying into BILLY MITCHELL AIRPORT in Milwaukee,MY GOD!Clean white snow,blue skies,and THAT VICKERS VISCOUNT!!!!We sat next to Senator Estes Kefaufer on one flight. My heart pounded knowing we'd be flying with Capitol Airlines on The VISCOUNT !!! My Lord!!! Capitol Airlines,Capitol Drive. . . synchronicity at its BEST! The way those planes smelled;everything clean. By contrast,a couple of times we flew with Nortwest Airlines on their DC-6s.What a difference with those piston valve engines.Clunky,slow,vibrato, seemingly not as clean as the Viscounts.Not As Crisp!!!!! Those big picture windows of the VISCOUNT!!!Those engines were an Opera to me.Segments of sound.
I saw one of these crash into a factory by the old Liverpool terminal around 1965 ,there was a big explosion .Lucky it was just a repositioning flight from the Isle of Man with a couple of crew members ,or lots more would have perished in the disaster .There was three Airlines flying the Viscount in & out of Liverpool at the time .Cambrian Airways ,British Eagle & Aer Lingus .The Fokker Friendships also operated by Aer Lingus used two of the same RR Dart ear piercing turbine engines as the Viscount .I reckon they could make your ears bleed if you got too close .
This lovely sound reminds me of the YS-11 I used to work on years ago with their Darts, though with much larger props. Just beautiful. Thanks for posting.
Turbo props never went away, we call them turbofans now. The sound of the 70-80's together with Deltic locos. As 15 year old would plane spot with friend at Brum airport. BMA Viscounts my favorite and the girlies at their check in desks were gorgeous.
The sound is beautiful and amazing! Miss this sound as well as focker f27 sound (same but only two engines) and the RR spey of Focker f28 and bac 111!!!!
I flew on Viscounts between Sydney and Canberra in the mid-1960s. Very nice aircraft. Even got a spell in the cockpit, and while we landed in Canberra. Very exciting for a young lad traveling on his own. The Viscounts had a very different sound to the Lockheed Electras, I think because of the propeller shapes. And of course the Fokker Friendship was a mainstay of rural aviation in Australia for many years.
Queen of the Dart fleet!! Thank you for posting, so miss that warm tone whistling sound here in NZ! Viscounts, HS748s, AW Argosys, even a Gulfstream 1...All gone. We do have a remaining handfull of Freindships but they don't have that 'whistle', just the warm tone.
The first time I saw and HEARD the Viscount was in the 50's in San Salvador. Santa Claus was arriving on a Taca Viscount and my father took me to Ilopango airport for the occasion. In those days the crowd was allowed near the parking stand, in the open air. That strident sound was so exciting and it's still engraved in my mind. I was much more impressed by the Viscount than by Santa Claus!
Oh Boy, I remember seeing them in BA colours at LHR... Then also in BD colours... then when SEN was the base for BAF..ohh, those were the days.. Sometime around 1992/3 I visited British World's hangar in SEN..they had a whack of Viscounts and One-Elevens.. I remember they were prearing an old -200 series for delivery to Nigeria.. Fantastic! I also loved the amrron livery with the leaping silver lion...One of the best fun days in my entire life! Also, aviantion-wise, far happier times..
The song heard in the background before the engines are fired up is "Up On The Roof" by the Drifters. If I watch this video using headphones, and putting on the bass boost, the drone of the props is quite a bit more pronounced over the whine of the RR Darts. It's easy for me to say that the RR Dart engines sound a lot like Hoover engines. To me the RR Dart engines themselves sound a lot like my families Hoover Upright vacuum cleaner that I knew as a child. It's my understanding that there is something about the compressor in the engines that give the Darts their distinctive sound. In full ground idle and taxiing, he props themselves make a chafe cutter sound like that of a box fan. In takeoff and inflight, the props make a low pitched drone like the wings of a Mexican hornet. But however, on other turboprop airliners that I've known and flown on, the LockHeed L-188 Electra, Beechcraft 1900, Shorts 360, DeHaviland Dash 8, and ATR 42, the sound of the props is much more pronounced over the whine of the turbojet engines. The LockHeed Electra had Allison D-35 engines, and the other above mentioned aircraft have Pratt & Whitney engines.
1985 I flew in one of these from Bulawayo to Cape Town where it was to spend the rest of its days as a museum piece and came out on special occasions to fly. Wonderful plane to fly in.
I can remember watching (and hearing!) these planes starting up at Kirkwall Airport many times. They were owned by British Airways, including this one G-APEY, and they were extremely noisy!
This home recording of a Viscount flight is to die for, and I'll go into details if I have to. One, this is a Viscount flight from a long time ago. When this video was recorded on videotape, no one had access to the world wide web. All there was at the time of the recording were countless audiotapes and CDs, none of the discs were capable of playing movies on smaller but versatile digital discs, however there had been an abundance of digital movies playing through a device that spewed an imaginary laser. Many called it a LaserDisc player. The novelty of the obsolete format was so that the consumers could play digital movies, but there was a flaw that caused the format to decline. This does not affect the home recording of a Viscount flight at Southend Airport. Back to the subject about the flight, I am fascinated by the sound the Dart engines make when they are on. I would describe it as a clear but whiny sound of a flying vacuum cleaner. I was familiar with the machine when I was flying but it was on a different aircraft, however the aircraft I boarded from Timmins was a Avro 748. A number of British aircraft of the time used this type of Rolls-Royce power plant engine. Two, while I went on about the Viscount, the world wide web operated differently from what we're used to nowadays. Back then they were operated as test pressings and a bunch of magnetic data machinery. If there was any chance the internet existed then, imagine what it was like to lug a big computer aboard an aircraft and simply plugging them in a socket. One would think that the weight restrictions on luggage in the overhead and the big meal table is enough. Three, this video was recorded on videotape, then stored away with care for years until TH-cam came around, then after more than 30 years, it got uploaded and digitized for generations. This is a breathtaking home recording of a flight. I could never make them that good, but you're a skilled artisan of flight videos. Well done.
I went to southend for an interview at the then world aviation support hangar, they had one half of it full of viscount spares. Shame we cant keep one flying isnt it?
Wow that takes me back you can almost smell the aviation fuel. I flew to Jersey and Amsterdam or Rotterdam on a Channel Airways Viscount in the 60s they referred to the Viscounts as Golden continental prop jet ( I still hold my pink boarding card) I think in the 70s a flight on BAF Viscount possibly to Jersey as others have said the noise was just wonderful. Interesting to see how Southend Airport has changed since this vid was taken.
I so loved the Viscount, it was one of the best and safest aeroplanes in the world. I first travelled on one with my parents in 1958 when I was 11 years old, we flew to jersey and the second time was in 1960. Both occasions were from Heathrow with British European Airways. I will never forget it. Could anyone please tell me which Airline or Airlines operated a Viscount out of Southend in the year 1960 ?. Thank you. Wonderful video!
They made a hell of a bang when they crashed in a ball of flame ,I know I saw one land on a factory in 1965 in Liverpool U.K.at the age of 11 whist riding my bike near the old airport .
@@nigelanthonylc4453 Oh yes still a very good aircraft I have flown on a couple .every type of aircraft I have flown on has been known to crash at some point .Some more than others, the law of averages per miles flown .
If you liked flying and a window seat the Viscount was the plane to fly in. Huge windows that you could stick your head into and almost see whats right under the aircraft. I flew lots in these and Vanguards with Trans Canada Airlines early in my working career. When Vickers sold them to us we stipulated many changes needed to make them suitable for Canadian operations which helped sell the aircraft to North American operators
My first Viscount flight was a BEA aircraft in 1958 from Manchester to Dublin. We were grounded over night because of fog. During this time we learned of the accident that day in Germany killing many of the Man. Utd football team. The airport was silent. I was 8 years old.
I well know that a turboprop engine is a jet engine with a propeller attached. It's called a turboprop because it's turbine powered and not piston powered. I've watched videos of other aircraft fitted with the famous RR Darts, including the Fokker F-27, HS-748 etc. . In those videos, the sound of the props is quite a bit more audible over the distinctive whine of the engines, and sound quite a bit more like the DeHaviland Dash-8. In this video, the prop sound is audible when the engines are spooled up to full idle speed, aproximately 800 RPM. In takeoff and climbing, the prop sound is especially audible revving up to 1,500 RPM in takeoff, and spooled down to 1,200 RPM after the landing gear is retracted. It's nearly inaudible in decent. The props themselves make a 'Chafe Cutter" or "Box Fan" sound in full idle and taxiing. In takeoff, and climbing and most of the flight, they buzz like the wings of a bumblebee, creating the bass hum and vibration that you get inside the cabin of most turboprop airliners. The least noisiest turboprop I've ever flown on was the ATR-42, back in 1992, with American Eagle from Raleigh/Durham to Charlotte Douglas. It appeared to have thicker cabin insulation that somewhat muffled the "Bumblebee" sound, and absorbed most of the vibration.
..strange how both the Dart and the Spey had a shrilling high-pitched tone..although of course it is more noticeable on the dart.. Lovely sound! Music to my ears...
Great video Mike,i have never had the luck to fly aboard a Viscount,but i have had a few trips on a Douglas DC3 when i was younger sadly though i do not have any video footage of that,but i still have great memories.I never knew those Rolls Royce Darts sounded so good from the inside as well 5*****
+John Wood Thanks John, I too have never flown aboard a Viscount, though I did fly on the HS748 and BAC 1-11s (Newcastle to Gatwick) back in the early eighties. The soundrack of the Rolls Royce dart brings back happy memories (as indeed does the start up howl of the RB163 Spey in the 1-11). Best regards, from the other John Wood (AKA Ampex196).
The Viscount is the aircraft used in the 1979 movie, "The Rose". In the scene that shows the aircraft taking off, it sounds much more like a fan jet aircraft, than the turboprops that I have known and flown on, such as the DeHaviland Dash 8, which has Pratt & Whitney engines. I'm guessing that the Darts produce much more jet noise than the Pratts, which virtually drowns out the sound of the props.
Modern turboprops are what's called "free turbine" engines, where the propeller is not hard geared to the turbine inside the engine. The Dart is what's known as a "single shaft" turboprop, where the engine cannot be started without the propeller.
i remember playing in my garden as a very young child in putney and these would be coming in to land at heathrow i still rember the highpiched whine myself like it was yesterday sadly i never got the chance to travel on one but a really great aircraft in the days we made things ourselfs !!!
Sorry if I missed it, but what year was this recorded? Had to be post 1986, because I do the see Vulcan at 5:55. I was on a school break at the time when the Vulcan arrived, I was also used to seeing BAF Viscounts :). Thank you for sharing.
Great memories, thanks for posting. My first flight was on a Viscount in 1965, I was 4 years old. Got air sick, lost my teddy bear and I still thought it was the greatest experience ever!
Truly a defining video for me. At age 10 in the late 50s, the screaming whine of Capital Airlines (US) Viscount RR Darts departing the gate at CRW aiport scared me to death. I learned quickly to appreciate the orchestrated mixing of sounds from the Dart gas generator, reduction gears, prop drive, and the blade aero frequencies was a symphony. That, more than anything, led me to a career in military and civil gas turbine propulsion engineering. So glad you captured this footage, Mike.
Wonderful story. Maybe you know the answer, where exactly the distinctive Dart whine comes from?
Forgotten how many times I've watched this...still the best out the window view from a Viscount...love that Dart chime.
Those windows gave an epic view. When the viscount starts up, boy is it loud….
I flew for British Air Ferries as a first officer from 1984 until 1987 on the Viscount all over Europe. Brings back memories.
A truly great airplane.
My father flew them for Continental Airlines in the sixties, until they were replaced by the DC-9. I rode in them. This also brings back memories, particularly the sound.
The Viscount with the Darts sound much more like a pure jet aircraft, such as a Boeing 707 or DC-9.
Beautiful. Love the startup as each engine is started in turn.
G-APEY. I used to lay on my back in my parents garden circa 1970 and watch this aeroplane fly directly over head as it was on final approach to Leeds and Bradford Airport. Surprised to find out it was still flying in 2005 in the Republic of Congo.
If it could talk😁✈️
Just love the whining of those RR Darts.Unforgettable.
Many people love the distinctive sound of the RR-Darts. I myself like the sound of the Darts, but it sounds even better if it's accompanied by the sound of the props. The props themselves make a "Chafe Cutter" or "Box Fan" sound in taxiing, and buzz like the wings of a bumblebee in takeoff and inflight.
If there is a better sounding turboprop, I haven't heard it yet!
Last time I flew on this was in 1974. I was 8 years old. Never forget this sound. Its minted in you, when you hear it, it brings memories of that era.
Superb!
On the turboprops that I've known and flown on, the sound of the props was much more audible over the whine of the jet engines that spin the props. In taxiing, the props made a "chafe cutter" or "Box Fan" sound. In takeoff and inflight, the props made a bass hum, what I call the "Bumblebee" sound, that drowned out the whine of the jet engines. That misleads many into believing that the turboprop engine is a turbocharged piston driven propeller engine. But on the Viscount, with the Darts, you can tell it's a jet engine, and it sounds much more like a pure jet engine, like those of a Boeing 707.
Oh those OCTAVES !
I've got 1 year on you but we used to go to Guernsey for our holidays and nearly always flew on Viscounts.That sound is something you can never forget
@@jackyclaiborne2142 I remember in the 60s in Australia when they flew overhead at altitude, they sounded exactly like a jet ! The screaming whine sound was evident in the ground from outside. But inside they sounded like a deep bass hum. Amazing aircraft!!!
This reminds me of going to jersey with my family in the 1970s I was around 10 yrs and was so excited going on a plane. The best bit was after taxiing on the runway it stops then the engines get louder and off you go fast faster along the runway then up you go. Happy days wish I could relive them
boy do i remember my flights aboard the Continental Airlines Viscounts. This film is from the same seat I was in, front of the cabin. I remember the Rolls-Royce emblem clearly on the engines too. it was very comfortable, and wonderfully British...i loved it. It also had the biggest windows I can remember on a plane- gave you a great view.
Flew in and out of Jersey (CI) more than 200 times in the 1970´s and early 80´s. Nothing like the sound of a Viscount and the smell of the fuel. Amazing British aircraft ahead of it´s time.
+Dave Gaskell Absolutely mate! also.. the 1-11 could smell in the rear as well! good days indeed.
What a great sound from those RR Darts! My all time favourite aircraft. Flew in the Viscount 700 with TAA in 1967. So memorable! I was 13 years old. The view from those large windows was magnificent!
I loved watching those engines starting up and the sounds of the various speeds. In this video she is taxiing fast! When I flew Pipers we had to taxi slow. Flying in the Viscount was a trigger for me getting a pilots license.
I wish I could fly in her or pilot her today!
I noticed that she is a really fast plane - notice the speed on take off!
Amazing RR Dart engine sound!!
The Uruguayan company "Pluna" operated the Vickers Viscount from year 1958 to 1987. It flew from Montevideo to Buenos Aires and Montevideo yo Rio de Janeiro .... it did its job very well....
I think that those planes were MAJESTIC. and i also think that the best time to be a Pilot was from 1950 to the 80"s. No computers,...just human control and perspective.....thats what a pilot is , the brain of the plane, the love and passion about aviation.
Totally agree, you had Connies, Dc3-DC7, Electras, Vangurds, Heralds, F27s, IL18s, Convairs…..Heaven on earth, today it’s a sadder world, zjets are so boring..
1960 Southend to Rome ...I was 9 and I have never forgotten the view out the window the same as the video just ...exquisite ! Bit frightning cos my
first flight but..... well done Tradair !
We lived in Holland throughout the 70s and our UK home and family were in Essex so we regularly flew between Southend and Rotterdam on British Air Ferries - wonderful memories and loads of funny stories.
Beautiful Rolls Royce Dart engines...what a sound...classic aircraft...flown on them many times ...you can't beat Turbo Prop engines ..
Beautiful....the engine sounds....RR Dart engines very distinctive...music to the ears..flown a few times on the Viscount...classic aircraft...
Nothing like the Vickers Viscount.That name says it all.The different octaves from those turbo-props,WOW!!!!!!! It was 1954
I remember, leaving the DAMP,WET "the dirty-city"
(Detroit) from Willow Run Airport.The snow in Milwaukee was clean and powder white.My family and I travelled by steam engines/streamliner (The HIAWATHA) or plane every CHRISTMAS to see my Grandparents in the village of Hartland.They lived on CAPITOL DRIVE.
The snow left on Detroit's tarmack:dirty black slush.On the tarmac in front of us, the ever beautiful CAPITOL AIRLINES VICKERS VISCOUNT with that smart RED and WHITE LIVERY and those cutting edge ,sharp, squared off propellers.
The smell of the fuel,the smell of the cabin;I loved every second of on the Capitol Airlines VICKERS VISCOUNT. My Mom knew all of its history.She kept repeating that name,VICKERS VISCOUNT and that we were so blessed to be flying CAPITOL AIRLINES.Excellent food,lovely friendly Stewardesses and friendly pilots looking smart in their uniforms.
I wish each start-up of each engine would last FOREVER!The taxi from tarmack to runway.MY GOD!!!
The different pitch of those whining RR engines!!!!
THANK YOU for uploading this video , bringing such wonderful memories back !!!!!!! We flew with
CAPITOL AIRLINES from 1954 to l958.
Sometimes we flew with Northwest Airlines.They used the clunky,noisy,BUMPY DC-6s.Very UNCOMFORTABLE ,constant vibration.We felt beat up after. flying on those DC-6s.
My Dad flew out of Southend for Channel Air Ferries and British United. He also flew out of Stansted (when it was Nissen huts) and my Mum once saw a Viscount land so heavily (at Stansted) that a wheel came off, bounced down the runway and demolished a small building. I have loads of happy childhood memories of Southend airport.
Bloody awesome sound! Brings back memories when I was a small child and my dad used to take me to Liverpool airport and watch these and HS-748's.
that is not sound: is fine music
I love the Vickers Viscount!!! The POWER! THAT WHINE,and yes,that smell of its fuel.
My Mother,brothers,and I flew on The Viscount for Capitol Airlines in the early 1950s. At Christmas time we would board the plane at Willow Run Airport.Dirty blackened,slushy snow coverd the ground.We flew during summer months and Chrisltmas from Detroit to Wisconsin to see my Grandparents.They Lived on CAPITOL DRIVE in a little village called HARTLAND.And it was "HEARTLAND"to me ! Leaving dirty Detroit,flying into BILLY MITCHELL AIRPORT in Milwaukee,MY GOD!Clean white snow,blue skies,and THAT VICKERS VISCOUNT!!!!We sat next to Senator
Estes Kefaufer on one flight.
My heart pounded knowing we'd be flying with Capitol Airlines on The VISCOUNT !!! My Lord!!!
Capitol Airlines,Capitol Drive. . .
synchronicity at its BEST!
The way those planes smelled;everything clean.
By contrast,a couple of times we flew with Nortwest Airlines on their
DC-6s.What a difference with those piston valve engines.Clunky,slow,vibrato,
seemingly not as clean as the Viscounts.Not As Crisp!!!!!
Those big picture windows of the VISCOUNT!!!Those engines were an Opera to me.Segments of sound.
I saw one of these crash into a factory by the old Liverpool terminal around 1965 ,there was a big explosion .Lucky it was just a repositioning flight from the Isle of Man with a couple of crew members ,or lots more would have perished in the disaster .There was three Airlines flying the Viscount in & out of Liverpool at the time .Cambrian Airways ,British Eagle & Aer Lingus .The Fokker Friendships also operated by Aer Lingus used two of the same RR Dart ear piercing turbine engines as the Viscount .I reckon they could make your ears bleed if you got too close .
My very first commercial flight was at age 10 on a Viscount from Southend in 1967 on a school trip to Ostend.
I went on a school trip to Ostend in 1974, flying from Southend on a Carvair I think.
Beautiful...I've flown many times with Dart turbines on F27s, but 4 of them sond even better
This lovely sound reminds me of the YS-11 I used to work on years ago with their Darts, though with much larger props. Just beautiful. Thanks for posting.
Roll Royce Darts! I love those sounds!
Turbo props never went away, we call them turbofans now. The sound of the 70-80's together with Deltic locos. As 15 year old would plane spot with friend at Brum airport. BMA Viscounts my favorite and the girlies at their check in desks were gorgeous.
The sound is beautiful and amazing! Miss this sound as well as focker f27 sound (same but only two engines) and the RR spey of Focker f28 and bac 111!!!!
Flew on Channel Islands G-AOHT back in 1973. Fond memories of that and also flying on KLM Viscounts in the 60s. What a great sound!
Amazing plane and gorgeous sounding RR engines
I saw this a couple of years ago but it is one of those videos that you always remember and go back to. Incredible sight and sounds!
Amazing these Viscounts started in the 50s!
Strange how far ahead of the wing they're slung. Love this!!!!
I flew on Viscounts between Sydney and Canberra in the mid-1960s. Very nice aircraft. Even got a spell in the cockpit, and while we landed in Canberra. Very exciting for a young lad traveling on his own.
The Viscounts had a very different sound to the Lockheed Electras, I think because of the propeller shapes. And of course the Fokker Friendship was a mainstay of rural aviation in Australia for many years.
Queen of the Dart fleet!! Thank you for posting, so miss that warm tone whistling sound here in NZ! Viscounts, HS748s, AW Argosys, even a Gulfstream 1...All gone. We do have a remaining handfull of Freindships but they don't have that 'whistle', just the warm tone.
The first time I saw and HEARD the Viscount was in the 50's in San Salvador. Santa Claus was arriving on a Taca Viscount and my father took me to Ilopango airport for the occasion. In those days the crowd was allowed near the parking stand, in the open air. That strident sound was so exciting and it's still engraved in my mind. I was much more impressed by the Viscount than by Santa Claus!
Oh Boy, I remember seeing them in BA colours at LHR... Then also in BD colours... then when SEN was the base for BAF..ohh, those were the days.. Sometime around 1992/3 I visited British World's hangar in SEN..they had a whack of Viscounts and One-Elevens.. I remember they were prearing an old -200 series for delivery to Nigeria.. Fantastic! I also loved the amrron livery with the leaping silver lion...One of the best fun days in my entire life! Also, aviantion-wise, far happier times..
The song heard in the background before the engines are fired up is "Up On The Roof" by the Drifters.
If I watch this video using headphones, and putting on the bass boost, the drone of the props is quite a bit more pronounced over the whine of the RR Darts. It's easy for me to say that the RR Dart engines sound a lot like Hoover engines. To me the RR Dart engines themselves sound a lot like my families Hoover Upright vacuum cleaner that I knew as a child. It's my understanding that there is something about the compressor in the engines that give the Darts their distinctive sound.
In full ground idle and taxiing, he props themselves make a chafe cutter sound like that of a box fan. In takeoff and inflight, the props make a low pitched drone like the wings of a Mexican hornet.
But however, on other turboprop airliners that I've known and flown on, the LockHeed L-188 Electra, Beechcraft 1900, Shorts 360, DeHaviland Dash 8, and ATR 42, the sound of the props is much more pronounced over the whine of the turbojet engines. The LockHeed Electra had Allison D-35 engines, and the other above mentioned aircraft have Pratt & Whitney engines.
Very interesting video specially for thouse like me that never fle in that kind of aircraft. Nice sound. Thanks for share.
its very powerfull an i like the smooth and fast take off
1985 I flew in one of these from Bulawayo to Cape Town where it was to spend the rest of its days as a museum piece and came out on special occasions to fly. Wonderful plane to fly in.
the highpiched whine set it apart from eny other turboprop I love the sound
Waiting desperately for a cabin shot….😂 either way, very grateful for this footage. Thank you.
That sound.... flew BAF from Aberdeen to Sumburgh and vv when I worked offdhore in the late 80’s and 90’s
My ears have fallen in love with this video
I can remember watching (and hearing!) these planes starting up at Kirkwall Airport many times. They were owned by British Airways, including this one G-APEY, and they were extremely noisy!
This home recording of a Viscount flight is to die for, and I'll go into details if I have to.
One, this is a Viscount flight from a long time ago. When this video was recorded on videotape, no one had access to the world wide web. All there was at the time of the recording were countless audiotapes and CDs, none of the discs were capable of playing movies on smaller but versatile digital discs, however there had been an abundance of digital movies playing through a device that spewed an imaginary laser. Many called it a LaserDisc player. The novelty of the obsolete format was so that the consumers could play digital movies, but there was a flaw that caused the format to decline. This does not affect the home recording of a Viscount flight at Southend Airport.
Back to the subject about the flight, I am fascinated by the sound the Dart engines make when they are on. I would describe it as a clear but whiny sound of a flying vacuum cleaner. I was familiar with the machine when I was flying but it was on a different aircraft, however the aircraft I boarded from Timmins was a Avro 748. A number of British aircraft of the time used this type of Rolls-Royce power plant engine.
Two, while I went on about the Viscount, the world wide web operated differently from what we're used to nowadays. Back then they were operated as test pressings and a bunch of magnetic data machinery. If there was any chance the internet existed then, imagine what it was like to lug a big computer aboard an aircraft and simply plugging them in a socket. One would think that the weight restrictions on luggage in the overhead and the big meal table is enough.
Three, this video was recorded on videotape, then stored away with care for years until TH-cam came around, then after more than 30 years, it got uploaded and digitized for generations. This is a breathtaking home recording of a flight. I could never make them that good, but you're a skilled artisan of flight videos. Well done.
Flew on these to Jersey as a child for my holidays when it was BEA.
First plane I have ever been on. Viscount, 1969. I remember that distinct Viscount sound!
Thanks for the great video, at 14.41 I can see my parents house at mount dale gardens, on flight path on runway zero 6 I think.
superb...what sweet sounds from the RR Darts... unbelievable
Nice filming and *sweet* sound! Thanks for posting:-)
Beautiful airplanes that they do not make any longer !
I’m so turned on right now. Wish I was in the cockpit lol. I’m glad you uploaded this.
I went to southend for an interview at the then world aviation support hangar, they had one half of it full of viscount spares. Shame we cant keep one flying isnt it?
Wow that takes me back you can almost smell the aviation fuel.
I flew to Jersey and Amsterdam or Rotterdam on a Channel Airways Viscount in the 60s they referred to the Viscounts as Golden continental prop jet ( I still hold my pink boarding card) I think in the 70s a flight on BAF Viscount possibly to Jersey as others have said the noise was just wonderful.
Interesting to see how Southend Airport has changed since this vid was taken.
I remember flying between Lanzarote and Tenerife in a LAC Viscount 806 - was in 1986. I think it was an ex. British Air Ferries aircraft.
I so loved the Viscount, it was one of the best and safest aeroplanes in the world. I first travelled on one with my parents in 1958 when I was 11 years old, we flew to jersey and the second time was in 1960. Both occasions were from Heathrow with British European Airways. I will never forget it.
Could anyone please tell me which Airline or Airlines operated a Viscount out of Southend in the year 1960 ?. Thank you. Wonderful video!
They made a hell of a bang when they crashed in a ball of flame ,I know I saw one land on a factory in 1965 in Liverpool U.K.at the age of 11 whist riding my bike near the old airport .
@@maskedavenger2578 A very rare thing, but still one of the best and safest aircraft ever built.
@@nigelanthonylc4453 Oh yes still a very good aircraft I have flown on a couple .every type of aircraft I have flown on has been known to crash at some point .Some more than others, the law of averages per miles flown .
Flew one of these in the late 80s. Luton to Aberdeen I think. Visiting family.
Very catchy music in the background at the beginning.
I am always shit scared when i sit in line with the propeller. Don't even like sitting in line with the compressor fan of a turbofan.
Music to my ears...
If you liked flying and a window seat the Viscount was the plane to fly in. Huge windows that you could stick your head into and almost see whats right under the aircraft. I flew lots in these and Vanguards with Trans Canada Airlines early in my working career. When Vickers sold them to us we stipulated many changes needed to make them suitable for Canadian operations which helped sell the aircraft to North American operators
I know BAF rotated them but GAPEY was quite a regular at ABZ on the Shell oil charter flights in the 80s/90s. Memories of those engines!
My first Viscount flight was a BEA aircraft in 1958 from Manchester to Dublin. We were grounded over night because of fog. During this time we learned of the accident that day in Germany killing many of the Man. Utd football team. The airport was silent. I was 8 years old.
wonderful video ,brought back memories ,thanks
Amazing footage, thanks for sharing!
I well know that a turboprop engine is a jet engine with a propeller attached. It's called a turboprop because it's turbine powered and not piston powered. I've watched videos of other aircraft fitted with the famous RR Darts, including the Fokker F-27, HS-748 etc. . In those videos, the sound of the props is quite a bit more audible over the distinctive whine of the engines, and sound quite a bit more like the DeHaviland Dash-8. In this video, the prop sound is audible when the engines are spooled up to full idle speed, aproximately 800 RPM. In takeoff and climbing, the prop sound is especially audible revving up to 1,500 RPM in takeoff, and spooled down to 1,200 RPM after the landing gear is retracted. It's nearly inaudible in decent.
The props themselves make a 'Chafe Cutter" or "Box Fan" sound in full idle and taxiing. In takeoff, and climbing and most of the flight, they buzz like the wings of a bumblebee, creating the bass hum and vibration that you get inside the cabin of most turboprop airliners. The least noisiest turboprop I've ever flown on was the ATR-42, back in 1992, with American Eagle from Raleigh/Durham to Charlotte Douglas. It appeared to have thicker cabin insulation that somewhat muffled the "Bumblebee" sound, and absorbed most of the vibration.
..strange how both the Dart and the Spey had a shrilling high-pitched tone..although of course it is more noticeable on the dart.. Lovely sound! Music to my ears...
Ace vid - made my heart sing like those engines :)
Good and very ,,nice sound of engines ,,, Which Flight is this and tell me where are you going
Great video Mike,i have never had the luck to fly aboard a Viscount,but i have had a few trips on a Douglas DC3 when i was younger sadly though i do not have any video footage of that,but i still have great memories.I never knew those Rolls Royce Darts sounded so good from the inside as well 5*****
+John Wood Thanks John, I too have never flown aboard a Viscount, though I did fly on the HS748 and BAC 1-11s (Newcastle to Gatwick) back in the early eighties. The soundrack of the Rolls Royce dart brings back happy memories (as indeed does the start up howl of the RB163 Spey in the 1-11).
Best regards, from the other John Wood (AKA Ampex196).
wonderful !!!!!!!
The Viscount is the aircraft used in the 1979 movie, "The Rose". In the scene that shows the aircraft taking off, it sounds much more like a fan jet aircraft, than the turboprops that I have known and flown on, such as the DeHaviland Dash 8, which has Pratt & Whitney engines. I'm guessing that the Darts produce much more jet noise than the Pratts, which virtually drowns out the sound of the props.
Modern turboprops are what's called "free turbine" engines, where the propeller is not hard geared to the turbine inside the engine. The Dart is what's known as a "single shaft" turboprop, where the engine cannot be started without the propeller.
Fantastic thanks 🙂
Is this the flight down to Bournemouth?
Apologies......recognised it as being so courtesy of the beautiful cloudscape!
Those Rolls-Royce Darts spool up to idle real quick
Absolute music from the Darts
That’s the grandpa of all turboprop aircraft
Friend flew these cargo mail flights, showed me around the cockpit. Looked like WW2 bomber. Didn't take jet fuel, just bumble bees.
Some people say what a bloody racket, I say it’s a symphony on three wheels.
Once upon a time in RJNN I met all nippon airways viscount 828
Oh, it's all coming back to me now!
Miss that Powerful beast
i remember playing in my garden as a very young child in putney and these would be
coming in to land at heathrow i still rember the highpiched whine myself like it was yesterday sadly i never got the chance to travel on one but a really great aircraft in
the days we made things ourselfs !!!
I have the same memory but up in Leeds. Around 1970.
Oh the noise. No wonder in my country this was nicknamed the dog slayer
Epic sounds of Rolls-Royce Dart.
In 2018!!!! From 🇧🇷!!!!
My Father in law Captain Tony Lazenby used to fly these machines for Cambrian Airways
excellent
At 4:07 is that a Bristol Britannia at the gate? (The tail with the circular logo).
Thanks. Nice video.
Used Rolls Royce Dart Turboprops engine, the same model used Fokker F-27, NAMC YS-11 ant others models of the years
Sorry if I missed it, but what year was this recorded? Had to be post 1986, because I do the see Vulcan at 5:55. I was on a school break at the time when the Vulcan arrived, I was also used to seeing BAF Viscounts :). Thank you for sharing.
Looove the sound of those darts.. What year is this from?
Landing at Hurn Airport (Bournemouth)
Great. But where to?
And the Best windows :-)
Propjet power!!!
Captain mother is pilot in command
It was many accidents . One broke apart in heavy turbulence, and one lost a propeller killing one of the passengers. Many many more accidents!