Post by bhk on Jul 7, 2007 3:11:06 GMT -5
In September 1960 the Continental Airlines Vickers Viscount Type 800, N241V was sold to Ansett-ANA as VH-RMK.
It was flown from Omaha, Nebraska, to Melbourne, Victoria, not across the Pacific, as one would expect, but "the long way round"......via Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the United Kingdom, Italy, Greece, down through the Persian Gulf to Bahrein, across to Pakistan, India, Thailand, the Philppines, Indonesia and thence Oz.
This was a 12-day trip, with two rest days en-route plus overnight stop-overs.
If the aircraft had sufficient range it would, naturally, have been brought down here via the Pacific route but the Viscount did not have that capability.
There was a five-man crew aboard....two senior pilots, both Captains, a First Officer, a Navigator and a Flight Engineer.
Cpt. C. Lister was the commander and the Operations Order, #10/60, relating to this flight were amongst his personal aviation memorabilia discovered following his death...which I think was fairly recently, as the scanned document was only provided to me two days ago.
I have recreated this flight for Flightsim and it has been uploaded to both Avsim and Flightsim.com.
Two versions of the saved flight are included....one with the default Cesna 172 and the other with Rick Piper's Viscount 800 in the appropriate livery.
Regards,
Bruce
It was flown from Omaha, Nebraska, to Melbourne, Victoria, not across the Pacific, as one would expect, but "the long way round"......via Canada, Greenland, Iceland, the United Kingdom, Italy, Greece, down through the Persian Gulf to Bahrein, across to Pakistan, India, Thailand, the Philppines, Indonesia and thence Oz.
This was a 12-day trip, with two rest days en-route plus overnight stop-overs.
If the aircraft had sufficient range it would, naturally, have been brought down here via the Pacific route but the Viscount did not have that capability.
There was a five-man crew aboard....two senior pilots, both Captains, a First Officer, a Navigator and a Flight Engineer.
Cpt. C. Lister was the commander and the Operations Order, #10/60, relating to this flight were amongst his personal aviation memorabilia discovered following his death...which I think was fairly recently, as the scanned document was only provided to me two days ago.
I have recreated this flight for Flightsim and it has been uploaded to both Avsim and Flightsim.com.
Two versions of the saved flight are included....one with the default Cesna 172 and the other with Rick Piper's Viscount 800 in the appropriate livery.
Regards,
Bruce