VC10 WOW!!!

[Glosphil]

Apache said:

of all the airliners I've flown in, the VC10 was my fave.....even if you did sit back to front

Wasn't rearward facing seating only in RAF versions? Same as all RAF passenger planes? Certainly the RAF VC10, Hasting and Yorks in which I flew.

[StuartGGray]

The BOAC VC10 was the first jet I remember flying on. Beautiful craft.

[evolution666]

seen this trio flying low level over durham city yesterday, awsome sight

[FourWheelDrift]

Glosphil said:

Wasn't rearward facing seating only in RAF versions? Same as all RAF passenger planes? Certainly the RAF VC10, Hasting and Yorks in which I flew.

Yes, all commercial airline VC10s faced forward.

[Parabola]

Are any being saved/preserved?

My Nan lived near Brize Norton. Used to watch them coming in to land over her garden.
They were so low, my Grampy could recognise the pilot flying*.

• Grampy may have been lying to a 6yr old me about this bit!

[Apache]

FourWheelDrift said:

Glosphil said:

Wasn't rearward facing seating only in RAF versions? Same as all RAF passenger planes? Certainly the RAF VC10, Hasting and Yorks in which I flew.

Yes, all commercial airline VC10s faced forward.

RAF Tristars were conventional too

[Ginetta G15 Girl]

Parabola said:

Are any being saved/preserved?

It's planned that one will go to the RAF Museum at Cosford.

[NismoGT]

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

It's planned that one will go to the RAF Museum at Cosford.

Good. They used to have a British Airways or BEA VC-10. It was scrapped a few years back.

[Pickled]

Reminds me of my childhood, growing up at Brize in the 70s, sure there was the VC10 sim behind the gym as well, dad was PTI and blagged me a ride on the sim

[Eric Mc]

NismoGT said:

Ginetta G15 Girl said:

It's planned that one will go to the RAF Museum at Cosford.

Good. They used to have a British Airways or BEA VC-10. It was scrapped a few years back.

BEA never operated VC-10s. They were flown by BOAC (both Standard and Super VC-10s). When BOAC and BEA merged in 1974 to form BA, the surviving Standard VC-10s and all the Super VC-10s became part of the BA fleet.

[FourWheelDrift]

Might have got BEA and BUA mixed up.

[Fluid]

This is one of the photos I took yesterday, not the greatest as it was taken on my iPhone then cropped.

[PaulG40]

Going to the tin opener in the sky!

Always a memorable flight everytime you were in one. Last got to a pax in one for a trail out to the states last December, it went U/S in Dayton, Ohio with a Hyd pump snag. The engineers had to stay out for a week in Dayton (not alot to do there!), we flew back civvie the next day via Chicago as the tickets back hone to blighty were cheaper than the rates they would have had to pay us.

Good times!

[steve j]

I worked on these for 10 years and learnt a lot, some of them had nearly 50 thousand flying hours on them, that`s a long time in the air. As a refueller it was very good, I have been informed that the clean wing gave no air turbulence which made refuelling from the wing pods a very smooth operation. I remember standing under a wing during hydraulic sampling and noted that with flaps travelling the wing was almost a full delta, a truly awesome sight. Like most things that give great service, it will be missed, the replacement for it, A330 airbus has a lot to live up to, oh and that is now going to be completed in Spain after contract problems, good old british management.

[DamienB]

Two more VC-10s went into Brunty today.

A proper Pistonheads style shot of XV108 (the other was XV106), setup courtesy of Matt W @ Jetstream:

[moribund]

[MitchT]

That photo gives me warm shivers, if such a thing is even possible!

[mrloudly]

That must be nearly the lot surely?

[JerseyS2000]

Has that photo been played with or are the Ashon's wheels buggered?

[DamienB]

Just haven't corrected for lens distortion.