Alan Beardmore has posted this Derbosoft Proboard photo of Loganair V.802 series Viscount G-AOHM operating newspaper flights at Blackpool on 3 March 1984. This Viscount was built for BEA - British European Airways as G-AOHM and first flew on Thursday, 30 May 1957 at Weybridge, Surrey, England powered by Rolls-Royce Dart 510 engines. During its life it was also owned and/or operated by BA - British Airways, BAF - British Air Ferries, Air Algerie, BAF Air Tours, Loganair, Manx Airlines, BWA - British World Airlines, Airwing 2000 Ltd., Interflight, and Transtel. On 19 March 1975 while being operated by BA - British Airways during a touch and go exercise at Dinard Airport, Pleurtuit, Northern France the flaps that were selected for the previous approach and landing would normally have retracted into the takeoff position when the engine throttles were advanced for a go-around but for some reason, in this instance they remained in the landing configuration. The extra drag would have resulted in the aircraft not getting airborne so Base Training Captain Anthony McLauchlan immediately elected to abandon the takeoff and his trainee pilot managed to stop the aircraft within the remaining runway length without any damage. Invaluable training no doubt! After vacating the runway Anthony verified visually from the cabin the incorrect flap position and then cycled the flaps through their full range. He then selected the correct takeoff position which was again verified visually from the cabin. After consulting with the engineers at Jersey they agreed that the aircraft should be flown back to its home base in Jersey, Channel Islands for a full inspection of the flap and throttle interconnect systems. The ferry flight was made without further incident. Unfortunately, Anthony was too busy flying other Viscounts to be able to find out the cause of the malfunction. Its fate:- While being operated by Transtel as 3D-OHM it was damaged beyond repair after an aborted takeoff at Ndjamena, Tchad 24 July 2001. Possibly scrapped in 2003. Peter Coes photo of the same aircraft while being operated by BEA - British European Airways was taken at Barcelona, Spain in 1962. Click on this link to see the history and 58 photos of this Viscount. vickersviscount.net/Index/VickersViscount162History.aspx The Vickers Viscount Network is always on the lookout for more photos and information to help complete the histories of every Viscount built. If you can help please contact us by Facebook, Twitter or email. Your help will be really appreciated with this important historical project.
Posted on: Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:07:38 +0000
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