Vickers Viscount

Vickers Viscount adalah sebuah pesawat terbang penumpang sipil (airliner) dengan dua baling-baling yang diperkenalkan pada tahun 1953 oleh Vickers-Armstrongs, dan merupakan pesawat pertama macam ini yang masuk dinas pelayanan untuk pertama kalinya di dunia.

Vickers Viscount Model 843 milik Bouraq Indonesia di Bandar Udara Internasional Soekarno-Hatta, Jakarta, 1992

Vickers Viscount Model 802 milik British European Airways di Bandara Internasional Heathrow, London, 1964

Pesawat ini lalu kelak akan menjadi salah satu yang paling sukses sebagai pesawat angkutan pasca Perang Dunia II, dengan 445 jumlah yang dibangun.

Pesawat ini benar-benar disukai oleh penumpang, sebab tidak berisik, bebas getaran, dan mempunyai jendela yang jauh lebih besar daripada yang ditemukan di pesawat penumpang yang lebih modern.

Di Indonesia pesawat ini digunakan sampai dasawarsa 1990-an oleh Bouraq dan Mandala Airlines.

Pesawat serupa

• Ilyushin Il-18
• Lockheed L-188 Electra

Referensi

• Andrews, C.F. and E.B. Morgan. Vickers Aircraft since 1908. London: Putnam, Second Edition, 1988. ISBN 0-85177-815-1.
• Burn, Duncan. The Structure of British Industry, Volume 2. CUP Archive, 1958.
• Cacutt, Len, ed. “Vickers Viscount.” Great Aircraft of the World. London: Marshall Cavendish, 1989. ISBN 1-85435-250-4.
• Dunn, Robin MacRae. Vickers Viscount (AirlinerTech Volume 11). North Branch, Minnesota: Specialty Press, 2004. ISBN 978-1-58007-065-2.
• "England to New Zealand -in 24 hours: Varied Fortunes in the London-Christchurch Race". Flight, 16 October 1953, pp. 521–523.
• Gardner, Robert. From Bouncing Bombs to Concorde: The Authorised Biography of Aviation Pioneer Sir George Edwards OM. Stroud, Gloustershire, UK: Sutton Publishing, 2006. ISBN 0-7509-4389-0.
• Gunn, John. Contested Skies: Trans-Australian Airlines, Australian Airlines, 1946-1992. University of Queensland Press, 1999. ISBN 0-70223-073-1.
• Guttery, Ben. Encyclopedia of African Airlines. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Company, 1998. ISBN 0-78640-485-7.
• Hicks, John. Welded Design: Theory and Practice. New Delhi, India: Woodhead Publishing, 2001. ISBN 0-81551-474-3.
• Hill, Malcolm L. Vickers Viscount and Vanguard. Ramsbury, Wiltshire, UK: Crowood, 2005. ISBN 1-86126-669-3.
• "Introducing the Viscount". Flight, 20 November 1947, pp. 568–571.
• Jackson, A.J. British Civil Aircraft since 1919 (Volume 3). London: Putnam, 1974. ISBN 0-370-10014-X
• Jackson, A.J. British Civil Aircraft 1919-1972: Volume III. London: Putnam, 1988. ISBN 0-85177-818-6.
• Manning, Gerry. Airliners of the 1960s. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Zenith Imprint, 2000. ISBN 0-76030-944-2.
• Márquez-Sterling, Manuel. Cuba 1952-1959: The True story of Castro's Rise to Power. Wintergreen, Virginia: Kleiopatria Digital Press, 2009. ISBN 0-61531-856-8.
• Mitcham, Chad. China's Economic Relations with the West and Japan, 1949-1979 Grain, Trade and Diplomacy. London: Routledge, 2005. ISBN 0-41531-481-X.
• Piggot, Peter. On Canadian Wings: A Century of Flight. Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Dundurn, 2005. ISBN 1-55002-549-X.
• Prins, François. "Birth of a Classic: Conception and Development of the Vickers Viscount". Air Enthusiast, No. 73, January/February 1998, pp. 50–57. ISSN 0143-5450.
• Sutton, John. Technology and Market Structure: Theory and History. MIT Press, 2001. ISBN 0-26269-264-3.
• "The Story of the Viscount: Evolution of an Airliner: The First Ten Years." Flight, 15 July 1955, pp. 83–86, 93.
• Taylor, H.A. "The Viscount ... Vickers Peer Without a Peer". Air Enthusiast, Twenty-five, August–November 1984, pp. 1–17. ISSN 0143-5450.
• Turner, P. St. John. Handbook of the Vickers Viscount. London: Ian Allan, 1968. ISBN 978-0711000520.
• "Viscounts for the World". Flight, 11 July 1958. pp. 42–51.
• Warner, Guy. Orkney by Air. Erskine, Renfrewshire, Scotland: Kea Publishing, 2005. ISBN 0-95189-587-7.

Pranala luar

• Vickers Viscount Network, a virtual museum dedicated to the Vickers-Armstrongs VC2 Viscount
• Home page of G-APIM - Viscount Stephen Piercey
• "Another British First" a 1948 Flight article on the Viscount's first flight
• "Viscount in the Air a 1949 Flight article on flying the Viscount
• "Engineering the Viscount" a 1953 Flight article by Bill Gunston
• "The Viscount is a Dinger ..." a 1955 Flight advertisement for the Viscount
• Routine Flight, a 1955 National Film Board of Canada documentary featuring the Vickers Viscount trial flight with Trans-Canada Airlines