This rather grainy photograph of an Invicta Airways Vickers Viking was taken by me using a Kodak Instamatic camera at Ostend Airport, Belgium on or about 1st April 1967. I had just disembarked from it having made my first flight, from Manston in Kent, and my first visit to a foreign country.
The Viking was developed from the wartime Wellington bomber using the same wings (metal skinned in place of fabric on all but the early examples), tail planes, fin and undercarriage married to a new fuselage. One feature of the type was, as it had a midwing layout, the main spar passed through the passenger cabin at about knee height, boxed in and covered with carpet and steps either side of it. Anyone passing along the cabin had to clamber over this obstacle and the stewardesses negotiating it in their newly fashionable miniskirts were a cause of considerable delight to our party of teenage schoolboys!
This work by Roland Turner is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
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