Lockheed L-188 Electra

[jury1942 424]

[dodgy-alan 1,587]

Great shots of a lovely aircraft. The Electra has a very distinctive sound. We used to see lots of them coming into Heathrow in the 60s and 70s. KLM had a fleet of them as did several other operators. The last one I saw in operation was Air Atlantiques one at Stansted doing a night time cargo flight. Thanks for posting. 

 

[phil white 274]

Nice shots, am i right in thinking this was one of the first turbo prop airliners to enter service?

[jury1942 424]

1 hour ago, dodgy-alan said:

The Electra has a very distinctive sound. We used to see lots of them coming into Heathrow in the 60s and 70s

[jury1942 424]

17 minutes ago, phil white said:

am i right in thinking this was one of the first turbo prop airliners to enter service?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-188_Electra

[dodgy-alan 1,587]

On 10/04/2020 at 13:55, jury1942 said:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-188_Electra

One, but not the earliest, That Honour goes to the Vickers Viscount  which first flew in 1948 and entered service in 56. This was followed by the  Bristol 175 Britannia which first flew in 52 and entered service in 57.  Lockheed's L-188 Electra first flew in 57 and entered service in 59,  It shares its first flight year with the Ilyushin IL-18 , Tupolev TU-114 and Antonov AN-10 which ball first flew in 57. finally came the Vickers Vanguard which first flew in 59 and entered service in 60.   Parallel to the big 4 engined turboprops were the Twin engined  rivals the Handley Page Herald and Fokker F-27  which were aiming at exactly the same market and both flew in 1955 and  the very similar Antonov AN24 which first flew in 1959 and the Avro/Hawker Siddeley 748 which flew in 1960.  they were the civilian Turboprop airliners of the day and I used to see lots of them. Even saw one of the TU-114s in the early 60s, (what a beast!) 

Of course parallel to the civil aircraft there were several big military Turboprops such as the C-130, AN-12 and C-133 which also flew in the same timeframe. not to mention the TU-20/95/142.