Registration / Serial: | VP-WAT |
Aircraft Original Type: | Vickers Viscount |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Vickers Viscount |
Aircraft Version: | Vickers 782D Viscount |
C/n (msn): | 298 |
Operator Titles: | Air Rhodesia |
Aircraft Name: | Lundi |
City / Airport: | Bulawayo - Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo (FVJN / BUQ)Map |
Country: | Zimbabwe |
Photo Date: | September 1979 |
Photo from: | Kjell O Granlund Collection |
Photo ID: | 386248Submit Correction |
View count: | 1455 |
Seen at Bulawayo Airport twelve months after sister ship VP-WAS Hunyani was shot down by a heat-seeking missile on depature from Kariba operating RH825 on 3 September 1978. Following the second shoot down of an Air Rhodesia Viscount, VP-YND Umniati, on 12 February 1979, the airline painted their Viscounts in a drab grey anti-missile colour scheme and added exhaust deflectors to minimize the heat signature of the engine exhaust.
Registration / Serial: | VP-WAT |
Aircraft Version: | Vickers 782D Viscount |
C/n (msn): | 298 |
Operator Titles: | Air Rhodesia |
City / Airport: | Bulawayo - Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo (FVJN / BUQ)Map | Country: | Zimbabwe |
Photo Date: | September 1979 |
Photo from: | Kjell O Granlund Collection |
Registration / Serial: | VP-WAT |
Aircraft Original Type: | Vickers Viscount |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Vickers Viscount |
Aircraft Version: | Vickers 782D Viscount |
C/n (msn): | 298 |
Operator Titles: | Air Rhodesia |
Aircraft Name: | Lundi |
City / Airport: | Bulawayo - Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo (FVJN / BUQ)Map |
Country: | Zimbabwe |
Photo Date: | September 1979 |
Photo from: | Kjell O Granlund Collection |
Photo ID: | 386248Submit Correction |
View count: | 1455 |
Seen at Bulawayo Airport twelve months after sister ship VP-WAS Hunyani was shot down by a heat-seeking missile on depature from Kariba operating RH825 on 3 September 1978. Following the second shoot down of an Air Rhodesia Viscount, VP-YND Umniati, on 12 February 1979, the airline painted their Viscounts in a drab grey anti-missile colour scheme and added exhaust deflectors to minimize the heat signature of the engine exhaust.
Registration / Serial: | VP-WAT |
Aircraft Version: | Vickers 782D Viscount |
C/n (msn): | 298 |
Operator Titles: | Air Rhodesia |
City / Airport: | Bulawayo - Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo (FVJN / BUQ)Map | Country: | Zimbabwe |
Photo Date: | September 1979 |
Photo from: | Kjell O Granlund Collection |