6/7/2023 0 Comments Calair airplanes![]() Noted at Blackbushe Airport, Hampshire, England due to a London Airport (Heathrow) weather diversion. It was flown by Captain Orbell and his crew. VP-YND (C/N 101) had operated the first service on the previous day. This new airport replaced the old Kumalo Airport. Operated CE843 service from Salisbury International Airport, Rhodesia to Kumalo Airport, Bulawayo, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland with the Mayor and Mayoress of Bulawayo on board for the official opening of the new airport. Returned from Kuwait Airways lease to replace crashed Viscount VP-YNE (C/N 102). Weather radar installed by Marshall's at Teversham Airport, Cambridge, England. It was then flown to Livingstone, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland for one more local publicity flight flown by CAA Captain Beck. He and his co-pilot flew skyward to 17,000 feet where they bumped and banked the plane around but when they got down again, the bees were still happily humming inside the wing.īy the end of the week the airline officials decided that there was nothing to do but wheel their brand-new plane into a hangar and take the wing apart.ĭeparted from Lusaka, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland for three local publicity flights flown by CAA Captain Beck. The airlines chief pilot decided on more drastic action. ![]() A local housewife urged the airline to give the bees a good whiff of bruised lemon tree leaves. 'Bees', he wrote, 'don't like the smell of horses, but wrap him carefully so he won't get stung'. A Londoner suggested tying a horse under the wing. 'No' said the airline engineers: 'formic acid from the dead bees might damage the metal or the rubber in the fuel tanks'.Ī man from Durban thought that garlic might help. Blow smoke or gas into the wing, he advised. They were not, in fact, aircraft-type bugs at all, but a swarm of bees estimated at 75,000 which came out of nowhere soon after the plane had landed at Kentucky Airport, Salisbury, Rhodesia to take up happy residence inside one of its wings.ĬAA mechanics scattered, and to remove them, the airline called in a local beekeeper, Jack Garrett. The trouble with a new Vickers Viscount propjet was that the bugs would not go away. 'Getting the bugs out' is standard procedure whenever anything as complex as a brand new aircraft is delivered. Matopos is near Bulawayo with a large National Park known as Matobo. Rear fuselage section assembly commenced at Hurn Airport, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England.įront fuselage section assembly commenced at Hurn Airport, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England.įuselage section assembly commenced at Hurn Airport, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England.įuselage to Erecting Shop 'E' at Hurn Airport, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England.įirst flight from Hurn Airport, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England.ĭelivered to Central African Airways Corporation (CAA) named as 'R M A 'Matopos', Was the 74th Viscount fuselage assembled at Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England,Īnd the 77th Viscount assembled at Hurn, Bournemouth, Hampshire, England. 115 - the 115th production Type 700 series Viscount built, They were also fitted with de Havilland propellers, which was the first application to a production Viscount. They were powered by Rolls-Royce Dart RDa6 Mark 510 engines with a 47 seat high-density cabin. Pre 2008 'Viscount news' and 'Restoration news'Ĭentral African Airways Corporation (CAA) placed an order for five Type 748 Viscounts.Join the Vickers Viscount Network for FREE.Organisations with Rolls-Royce Dart engines.Viscount V.700 series specification 1952 - 54.The Illustrated history of New Zealand National Airways Corporation.The delivery of New Zealand's first Viscount.NAC - New Zealand National Airways Corporation.Books about BEA - British European Airways.Letter to the first Viscount passengers.Sir George Edwards - the father of the Viscount. ![]() Jet! When Britain ruled the skies - from the BBC. ![]() Fund raising Viscount flight to Basel-Mulhouse, France.The world’s first turbo prop airline service 40th anniversary.Viscount Stephen Piercey comes home to Brooklands.A Virtual Museum dedicated to the Vickers-Armstrongs VC2 Viscount
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