Save Our Viscount

Save Our Viscounts!

One, maybe two Lockheed Constellations coming to Australia, several Neptunes and a Squadron of DC-3s already flying the warbird classic aircraft circuit and now the tantalisingly close prospect of Australia regaining one of ‘our’ Vickers Viscount propjets. The heavy metal ofthe airshow scene is on the move as Queensland’s Australian Rying Museum attempts to …

“You come for Mandala Viscounts to go to museum in Australia – you doing good job, no-one else really interested in these old planes. I wish you much success. ” The porter shook hands and disappeared into the milling crowds whence he came. Soon it was an engineer. Then a traffic officer. The same words were echoed by the Customs and Immigration officials at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta Airport as AFM Viscount Project Director Robert Hickling and former TAA LAME Peter Robinson made their way towards the Qantas 767.

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