Routine Flight the TCA purchase of the British-built Vickers Viscount turboprop-powered airliner, the Winnipeg base is also in the midst of introducing jet engine technology for its engineering staff and technicians. TCA is the first North American carrier to use turboprop aircraft and air crews are also working up procedures to introduce the new airliner. The first Viscount is carrying out orientation flights for ground and air crews and the "On the Spot" crew are invited to come aboard on a test flight. The "On The Spot" series debuted in 1953, with the 39 episodes, initially 15 minutes in length. For the
Nihon Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation different manufacturing companies and university professors, NAMC was founded in April 1957 by executives from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Fuji Heavy Industries, Shinmeiwa Manufacturing, Sumitomo, Japan Aircraft, Showa Aircraft, and Kawasaki Heavy Industries with the goal of designing and manufacturing a Japanese civilian turboprop airliner to replace the successful but aging Douglas DC-3. The resulting aircraft, the YS-11, became the only successful civilian airliner to come out of Japan in the 20th century and the only airliner designed and produced in Japan for over 50 years until the Mitsubishi Regional Jet made its maiden flight in 2015. By the late 1970s,