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Message of speedbird9468 - Sent 03 Jul 1:57

Well weve had the modern stuff and stuff from the 60's and 70's. But what would you operate if we were in the 50's? Only one rule. You can only use props. Mine would be. Vickers Viscount- medium hall Bristol Britannia 300 series for long haul Armstrong Whitworth Argossy for freight De Havilland Heron for short haul.
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Message of captain bill - Sent 03 Jul 6:43

Well this airline of mine in the 50s has a veriety of types and we are in the process os reducing the types we fly. We have just replaced our DC-3s and Vikings with Viscounts and are also looking at the H.P. Dart Herald or Fokker F-27 to replace our Ambassadors. We have also ordered Vangaurds to give higher capacity to our short to medium routes but these won't be delivered until the 60s. (The Vangaurd was one of the most under-rated airliners of it's day only ordered by B.E.A. and T.C.A.) Our long haul fleet will be reduced to one type until the Comet becomes available in the 60s so we are replacing our Constalations and DC-7s with Britannias. So our fleet will be Herald or F-27 Viscount 700 with 800s on order (Vangaurd to come in 1960) DC-7C Constalation L1049G/H Britannia We may retain some of the DC-7s for charter use as there is a growing demand in the U.K. for Package Holidays to Continental Europe so we will enter this market. Future plans are to look at these new Jet Types but whither they will be the future or not remains to be seen.
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Message of FLX - Sent 03 Jul 9:25

It's the early 50s and the hi-volume biz model was still beyond the tech of this eraa. As a result, my airlines would only do the high margin, medium-long range flights. The only type in the fleet would be Lockheed Contstellation. Arguably the best-looking propliner ever produced. Available much earlier(Right after WWII) than other late 50s propliners that were forced to compete with jets in the same mkt. Later variants(e.g. Super G) eat the more modern Britannia(Any series) for breakfast in terms of range but not much slower. Would hv picked the Boeing Stratocruiser instead due to its amazingly opulent cabin but since it was nick-named <the best 3-engine airliner in the world(Due to also amazingly frequent inflight shutdown of the 4th engine>, I would hv to give it a pass.
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Message of speedbird9468 - Sent 03 Jul 12:54

Are we showing our age. I wasn't even born then!!!! LOL. But, very nice choices. I thought mainly british because those were the days when British avaition was at its peak
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Message of captain bill - Sent 03 Jul 14:23

The Constallation was and indeed is one of the finest airliners ever built. Having spoken with some of the guys that flew them I am a bit envious of them. I remember seeing the Stratocrusers of B.O.A.C. and as you say FLX they used to be always late due to to engines being shut down. The old piston types needed all engines turning to maintain speed unlike some modern types that can maintain speed with one engine shut down.
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Message of Mabel - Sent 03 Jul 15:10

I'd say DC-7C for long range, Connie L1049 for mid-range and F27 for short-range. Hard to decide since I wasn't even born back then. There's a Connie parked at the aerospace museum at Santa Monica Airport near my house and it's a beautiful bird, very technologically advanced for its time.
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