Thursday, October 16, 2014

aboard an NAC Vickers Viscount, 1959


A Vickers Viscount 807 of the same year. This shows the summer hostess uniform, the winter version was black.  For lots more, see the Paul Sheehan book The Aircraft of Air New Zealand and Affiliates since 1940.

2 comments:

  1. Great to see some interior shots - although not a wide body by any means there looks to be plenty of passenger space. The Viscounts certainly revolutionised travel in New Zealand an you could argue were a big factor in the short lives of the Fiat Railcars.
    The Viscount was an iconic aircraft - could argue the only decent airliner the UK built after WWII. British Airways still had them flying to places like the Shetland Islands in the early 1980s.

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  2. Sorry to burst your bubble(as an ex NAC engineer) but those 2 interior cabin photos are of NAC's Ex-Aer Lingus Fokker Friendship 100 series ZK-NAA,NAB,NAF or NAH

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