What aircraft is this?

[635djimmy]

Hi all
about 15 mins ago, I heard an an aircraft coming over, rear mounted engines, quite large quite low. I managed to get some pics of it with my 400D, these are cropped in, it had a very distinct wine coming from the engines too.

Heavily cropped


quite cropped


Anyone know what I saw?

Thanks

james.

[Ayahuasca]

VC-10

[Opel-GT]

Ayahuasca said:

VC-10

+1

[635djimmy]

Ahh, Thanks.

[Skywalker]

Such a pretty aircraft.

[635djimmy]

Was a lovely looking thing, it sounded great too.

[eccles]

Opel-GT said:

Ayahuasca said:

VC-10

+1

= VC11 ?

[Ayahuasca]

Beautiful, and now the fastest passenger aircraft in service iirc.

[aeropilot]

Ayahuasca said:

Beautiful, and now the fastest passenger aircraft in service iirc.

Not commercial passenger though.

And with another two of the RAF's few remaining C.1K's being retired a few months ago, I'm not sure if there are any left still flying in the RAF?

The remaining K.3/K.4 versions flown by the RAF are not PAX configured.

[anonymous-user]

There will be two in the Queens Birthday flypast this Saturday

Keep your eyes out if you live anywhere between Southwold/Ipswich/Chelmsford/Hainault/Fairlops/Northolt.

Flypast is at 1pm.

http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafcms/mediafiles/02B4FA73_5...

[muckymotor]

I'm in London this Saturday but was supposed to be at Canary Wharf at flypast time. If I head down to the riverside am I likely to be able to see the aircraft over London?

[Pothole]

I used to live about a mile north of CW and we would always see the flypast on its way to Central London, you should do too

[anonymous-user]

South bank/ on Waterloo Bridge isn't a bad Vantage point. Follow a straight line from the Mall to Fairlops station and you have your flightpath. I'll be at the other end (Southwold) hopefully watching them form up. Bbmf will very likely be holding over Fairlops/Hainault. You wold probably do better heading slightly North West, as they do not follow the line of the Thames.

Edited by anonymous-user on Monday 7th June 23:58

[aeropilot]

muckymotor said:

I'm in London this Saturday but was supposed to be at Canary Wharf at flypast time. If I head down to the riverside am I likely to be able to see the aircraft over London?

Possibly....if you are on the Westferry Road side of CW and look in a north-westerly direction towards the City across the bend in the river...??

[muckymotor]

Cheers all

[tuffer]

Biased opinion, Noisy POS. This is based on the fact my old barrack block was at the end of the runway at Brize and these feckers used to wake me up at all hours.

[Turbodiesel1690]

If an aircraft looks right, it usually is right. Think that applies to the VC-10

[Eric Mc]

Beautiful aircraft.
Great engineering.
Commercial disaster.

Very much a subsonic Concorde.

[M-J-B]

Eric Mc said:

Beautiful aircraft.
Great engineering.
Commercial disaster.

Very much a subsonic Concorde.

Why a commercial disaster Eric?

[FourWheelDrift]

M-J-B said:

Eric Mc said:

Beautiful aircraft.
Great engineering.
Commercial disaster.

Very much a subsonic Concorde.

Why a commercial disaster Eric?

They only built 54. Commercially that's a disaster.