Vickers Viscount
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The Vickers Viscount is a retired British medium-range turboprop airliner first flown in 1948 by Vickers-Armstrongs. A design requirement from the Brabazon Committee, it entered service in 1953 and wa
Cambrian Airways Vickers Viscount
Five-abreast cabin
Front cabin
Cockpit
Rolls-Royce Dart
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The Rolls-Royce RB.53 Dart is a turboprop engine designed and manufactured by Rolls-Royce Limited. First run in 1946, it powered the Vickers Viscount on its maiden flight in 1948. A flight on July 29
Vickers Viscount
…allocated the designation Type 609 and the name Viceroy. Although Vickers' Experimental Department Manager George Edwards had always favoured the 800 hp Rolls-Royce Dart other engines were considered, including the Armstrong Siddeley Mamba, which the government specified for the two prototypes. The choice of the Mamba…
Rolls-Royce Dart RDa. 3 Mk506
A Rolls-Royce Dart mounted on a Fokker F27 Friendship
Rolls-Royce Darts on a Vickers Viscount
Rolls Royce Dart Engine on Display at the Pima Air and Space Museum in Tucson, Arizona