Fascinating RT conversation!

[Adrian Wainer]

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Adrian Wainer

[Col7777]

I worked with a guy who loved all that stuff, funny he called himself 'Red Leader' I wonder if he knew 'Green Leader'

[Adrian Wainer]

Jan 12, 2009 10:35:28 GMT -5 Col7777 said:

I worked with a guy who loved all that stuff, funny he called himself 'Red Leader' I wonder if he knew 'Green Leader'

Hi Col, glad you liked it, here's some info on the Air Rhodesia Viscounts.

home.iprimus.com.au/rob_rickards/viscounts/viscounts.htm

Bye the way, the advertising which the host server site to Cal Classics throws up, is an endless source of amusement to me. Generally it decides I am most interested, in marrying alluring Middle Eastern Maidens in Hijab but for some reason it recently decided that male gays in the military were more to my taste, may be it has got me confused with this guy?



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Adrian Wainer

[Adrian Wainer]

An important milestone had been reached in August 1954 when CAA ordered five Vickers Viscount type 748 aircraft. The cost, including spares and spare engines, was just under 2 million, Pounds which sounds ridiculously cheap by today's standards, but in fact represented a huge outlay for a small airline in those days. The first aircraft, VP-YNA, arrived at Salisbury at 25 April 1956 newyna.jpg (36779 bytes) and was in service by early June, including operating a weekly tourist-class service to London, via Northern Rhodesia, Uganda, the Sudan, Libya, Malta and Italy.

home.iprimus.com.au/rob_rickards/viscounts/history.htm

Now, that would be a fascinating route to fly!

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Adrian Wainer