Reminds me of my childhood plane spotting at Heathrow. Loved the rear engine airliners, VC-10, Tristar, Trident and BAC-111. All made a racket even while taxiing to and from their stand.
As an American and longtime fan of Boeing and all things aviation, I must say that the VC-10 is more awesome than my beloved 727. 4 beats 3, hands down. 😢
I had the honour of being an electrical engineer at Brize Norton in the eighties, and worked on all levels of the VC10 servicing from first to third line, and flew on many post service check flights which really put the plane through it;s paces and made it do things it never normally would when carrying passengers. I loved everything about this majestic aircraft and it was way ahead of it's time, like so many other British designed planes. .
Reminds me of the flight I had on a VC10 on an Air Training Corps summer camp at RAF Brize Norton. The flight was straight after lunch and it wasn't long before people started being ill as the flight was a training flight that included several touches and go.
Having lived very near Brize Norton, listening to the Rolls Royce Conway power plants......This bird is the ultimate....... Looks combined with that noise...
I flew in one when I was 8 .We were allowed to get off the plane in Nairobi for a while. taking off is great. So much power it pushed you back in you seat. I don't think it had the range though. We landed in Rome and Tenerife and finally Joburg 1971
The VC10 is a beautiful aircraft, it will never be forgotten. I think that there should be an updated version made of this aircraft instead of the ugly looking planes they make nowadays.✈❤💙☺
Absolute perfection! And all this could have been the rival of the Boeing 707 if not for bloody British Airways. Why you Brits still allow these wankers to display the Union Jack on their planes is beyond me. They're just another multi-national conglomerate. You Brits must be SO proud.
The last VC10 built was an order for East African Airways, A Super VC10. I saw a photo of it in the snow at the Vickers factory before delivery, lost now. I used to fly on these birsds regularly on the Nairobi, Entebbe routes inthe early 70s. Fantastic.
That was 5H-MOG, later ZA150, and it can still be seen at Bruntingthorpe to this day. Kepler Aerospace had plans to return it to tanker service in the USA, but those plans have not yet materialised, and probably never will.
Wouldn't a modern day version to challenge the yanks be a treat. Put us out in the forefront again but alas due to crappy British management it would never see the light of day.
