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.
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
The first photo certainly is not the interior of a Viscount as the windows are rectangular and this is more applicable to a Douglas DC6B or a Lockheed Constellation. The second one again is not a Viscount but may be an F27
The first photo is neither a Viscount (as claimed in the heading) nor a Fokker Friendship (as claimed in one of the comments). Both of those aircraft had circular windows. The first photo in fact appears to be the interior of a Douglas DC-3, which was a common aircraft on NAC routes until the early 1970s. The second photo appears to be probably a Fokker Friendship - it is very similar to other online photos of Friendship interiors from that period, but looks a bit different from Viscount interior pics.
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.
ReplyDeleteThe 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.
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
ReplyDeleteThe first photo certainly is not the interior of a Viscount as the windows are rectangular and this is more applicable to a Douglas DC6B or a Lockheed Constellation. The second one again is not a Viscount but may be an F27
ReplyDeleteThe first photo is neither a Viscount (as claimed in the heading) nor a Fokker Friendship (as claimed in one of the comments). Both of those aircraft had circular windows. The first photo in fact appears to be the interior of a Douglas DC-3, which was a common aircraft on NAC routes until the early 1970s. The second photo appears to be probably a Fokker Friendship - it is very similar to other online photos of Friendship interiors from that period, but looks a bit different from Viscount interior pics.
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