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Ah, the lovely, incomparable, beautiful VC10. Was that Embakasi, looked like an EAA VC10 in the foreground?

Crikey - a thread all to myself..........................

For a minute there when I saw the thread title I thought BOAC had snuffed it. Obviously he is still in the land of the living.

rgbrock1 wrote:For a minute there when I saw the thread title I thought BOAC had snuffed it. Obviously he is still in the land of the living.

He's not allowed to snuff it. He's one of our fixtures, a life member no less.

Alison

Dream on, folks. Just remember, life's a bitch and then you die.

I wish I could delete it now.

End of this thread for sure.

Boac wrote:Dream on, folks. Just remember, life's a bitch and then you die.

Er, or you marry one.

No, Flame - we've had our fun and it's a good'un. It's called 'thread drift'.

You are all being cruel to me. Can't watch the video on 3G. Can't see the Queen of the Skies

The video is BOAC landing at Lusaka Airport. It looks like someone's home video posted on FB so the link will not convert unless you are on FB.

Thank you FL for the '10' fix. Prefered our colour scheme though.

It was the BOAC Standard VC10 landing at Lusaka in 1968 and EAA VC10 on the apron.

Here's G- ASGL ZD 240 arriving at Filton after ferry flight from storage at Abingdon in 1990 iirc for conversion to a tanker sorry poor quality pic it's taken from a video one of the fitters took.

It used to be a weekly family Sunday afternoon outing to go to Ndola airport, sit on our car bonnet (Zephyr Zodiac for 5 kids) outside the perimeter, to watch the VC10 land. All for free. Simple pleasures. Haha! You try tell the kids to do that today.



"More from the Vickers/BAC archive photos. First flights, testing, predelivery part seven. First of the 14, XR806 being towed out for possibly its first flight."

Had to get the log books out. My last flight with 806: Brize-Bruggen-Split-Bruggen-Brize 18/08/93. Flew it often in the Gulf War. Was not one of our Royal/VIP airframes.