In my opinion, the VC10 was the most beautiful airliner ever built. I find rear engined more attractive than wing engines, and I love those wide, well swept back wings. The T tail is also gorgeous ! I seldomly saw them at Toronto International Airport (now Pearson), YYZ, but when I did, it was very exciting. Aarre Peltomaa
What a stunning machine, May 18th 1971. I flew on a BOAC Super VC10 from London to New York and Los Angeles, only wish I could do it again. Flying today may be cheaper in real terms, but you look at this aeroplane, and then you realise how much has been lost.
When I was a youngster in the ‘70’s I used to fly on a VC10 to and from Iran and I remember having my little BOAC book signed and sitting in the cockpit for what seemed like hours chatting to the flight crew. Good times/memories, great aircraft.
Junior Jet Club, we had the same (my Twin & I) since we lived in Nairobi. I lost my book years ago, but got a really good copy off e-bay, with only one entry, for my Son. When we flew BA LHR to LBA in 2016 the crew were fascinated, and pulled all the stops, even letting me take a photo of my son with the captains hat on in the cockpit. We tried again with Fly Be in 2019, they were clueless and useless.
About a 9.8 on the fricking kick ass awesome scale. A level the current crop of lookalike twins on the wing airliners don't even come to reaching. Definitely one of the most beautiful airliners ever built.
Spectacular. A real thing of beauty. And I think the World's most powerful jetliner in her day. I saw the VC10s and heard them, very often until the RAF retired them in Sept. 2013.
You do realise that the Americans were funding the Nazis in the run-up to WW2. Research Prescott Bush (grandfather of George Bush snr). These wars are engineered by the same network of people. They fund both sides. Wars create massive wealth for them and they also retain power.
At the time I took it for granted that UK made planes like that, now every body else i,e younger generation takes it for granted that we are now a 5th rate piss poor useless country only on the same par as Pakistan or Bangladeshi, for f:ck sack what as happened to this once great country, to me it,s not real, don,t make our own cars on more, country,s which we use class as shit now make,s cars i,e Ta, Ta or of a like
As a kid we lived overlooking Montego Bay airport. BOAC VC10 often ran late departure past curfew-the super loud crackling of those 4 engines could be heard for a long time. I loved it! Gorgeous airplane.
Somehow I love the T-tailed designs, each plane looked so sharp and aerodynamic, the VC10s,, the 1-11s, 727,DC-9/80, Tu-134/154, IL-62. Just the side profile of the sharply raked tail at the beginning of the video conveys a sense of speed and grace. In contrast, the current gen planes, especially the widebodies, look like gigantic flying bovines.
Totally agree. And don't forget the Trident! I never got to go on one of those, but I managed all the others you listed apart from the 1-11 and the two Tupolevs. A vanished age.
I was lucky enough to be a steward on the VC10 for both Gulf Air and BA. Without doubt the most beautiful piece of sculpture ever to take to the air. These were the days when we manufactured our own fine aircraft in the UK instead of today when we just make bits of them. They were glory days. I was thoroughly spoiled and I knew it.
I got to fly London-Beirut in a Gulf Air VC-10 in the 70s. No doubt the most beautiful, most elegant subsonic airliner ever built. But then there is Concorde in the supersonic league... 🙂
I grew up living in Isleworth from 1960 to 1979 right under the flight path to runway 27R at Heathrow and used to spend hours seeing the planes arriving or taking off and wondered where they were coming from or heading to. My first jet flight was on a BOAC VC10 from London to New York in 1967. Through my life I have been lucky enough to travel to many parts of the world that I only dreamed about when I was growing up.
Andrew D. Gordon A.D.G. Productions, me too. Except we were under 27L, although they were calibrated as 28/09 back then. One of my favourite memories was the old Flying Tigers 747’s.
@@Pte1643 Yes I remember Flying Tigers aircraft as well as Seaboard World DC8s. I think my favorite was the air france Bréguet 763 and of course Concorde coming over the house at around 9:15pm.
Very true, but the fuel cost was much higher and the loads much smaller. Hence the 707 and DC-8 sold in the 1000’s (1,421 between the two) the VC-10 in the dozens (54). It’s all about earnings, profitability, reliability, and cost.
Wonderful takeoff shot of a VC-10! Great sound too! As one who grew up as a kid in Park Ridge, IL close to Chicago's O'Hare Field back in the 1960's, I can fondly recall on occasion watching one of these unique and beautiful looking BOAC airliners loudly flying overhead eastbound for the U.K. Thanks for sharing!
Ahh, sooo many memories of this beautiful aircraft, with its massive "T Tail" Along with the Caravelle, this is one beautifully designed piece of eye candy, where aircraft design HAD character
I was in the RAF and flew from Sardinia back to Brüggen in Germany when a detachment had finished in an RAF VC 10. RAF VC 10's differed from those operated by British Airways in that passengers were seated facing the rear of the aircraft on the ground's that it was safer for passengers.
´The most beautiful piece of sculpture ever to take to the air...´ as TimFly 767 has commented says it all. A gorgeous aeroplane and the most handsome of all jet airliners - and I include Concorde in that comparison. My father flew them for BOAC & BA and, as a youngster, I was lucky enough fly in them quite a bit. There is nothing like them - just wonderful from whichever angle you view.
This is a Standard VC-10. The slightly shorter fuselage is evident. On the port side, both entrance doors are forward of the wing. The title "BOAC" occupies a slightly different position on the Standard VC-10 compared to the Super. Both stunning machines to look at, but the Super with the slightly longer more graceful appearance, combined with the BOAC livery creates a beautiful image that hasn't been repeated on the same level since.
Plus, all civil registered BOAC Super VC10s had a UK registration beginning G-ASxx; the five East African Airways ('EAA') Super VC-10s were registered either 5H-xxx, 5X-xxx or 5Y-xxx. All civil-registered BOAC Standard VC10s had registrations beginning G-ARxx. The only exceptions to the above rules were G-ASIW, G-ASIX and G-ATDJ (which were Standards that flew with BUA and BCal), and G-AXLR (a Type 1106 VC10 which combined the shorter Standard fuselage with the longer Super wing and the more powerful Super Conway engines). RAE used G-XLR as a flying test bed for the Rolls Royce RB-211 high-bypass engine. Apart from the EAA Supers, all other foreign-registered VC10s were former BOAC/BUA/BCal Standards.
So true but they just burned too much fuel and the 707 and DC 8 helped end the VC 10 . Still a great looking airplane, especially the Super VC 10 I'm fortunate to have an 85 inch long VC 10 model airplane in BOAC
VC 10 has a spirit you never know it unless you experience that aircraft.There are some look alike vc10 like the ilyushin iL62 but we must add our voices and demand a new vc 10 with same conway engines but improved, our voices would be heeded to one day i believe.
Flew on BA061/April 1976 to the Seychelles via East Africa. Excellent flight and service with BA. A magnificent, fast, reliable British built aircraft! 🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴
First flew on one aged about 8 months to Singapore when dad was posted there in late 1965. Remember the return a little more-I was almost three then. They came round with a little basket of boiled sweets to suck so your ears wouldn't "pop" during takeoff.
Gary Orlando - Agree Gary - now everyone who buys property under a flight path whinge about aircraft noise from aircraft that are not as loud- I loved the VC10, BAC111, B707 & DC8 flying over because of their sounds- knew what was coming by the pitch of their engines and would run outside to see if I was right-😂 one of the reason I was drawn into the Aviation Industry in my early 20's
Spent 20 years working on VC10s ,worked on at least 36 ,flown on 19 . It's the best ! While we're talking fastest ... A DC-8 and prototype VC10 both flew supersonic during early flight testing .
Wonderful, love the sound of the VC-10 and the Super VC-10. Yes Britain made some outstanding aircraft BUT they made them for such small applications. In this case the VC-10 was built to serve “hot and High” African airports. The Trident was too small and underpowered. By the time the 2nd and 3rd versions had been produced the 727 owned the market. Interference by the government was the big issue telling BEA and BOAC what they could or couldn’t buy.
Not quite. Regarding the Trident, it was BEA in particular telling de Havilland they were building the wrong aeroplane and needed to make it smaller. This tehy did - only for BEA to tell them later that it wasn't big enough and asking the UK government to give them money so they could buy 727s. It was the UK government that MADE BEA order the Trident 3B.
Tooooo right. glad im not the only. I was lucky enough to fly on an old 1-11 back in 1998 and I remember there being so many of the classics at gatwick DC-10s and L10-11s. Manchester airport was fun back then too with them old 737-200 in british airways Landor colours.. so noisey and cool .. Now theyre all flying Ipads :(.
I too was a child of the early 60's & loved the VC-10 in all its various series. It definitely suited the BOAC colour scheme rather than the BA & looked awesome in BCAL.🫡😀👍🫶
@@philmontejano5971 True, for a short time, but the VC 10 was still flying passengers 25 years after the Convair was retired. So the VC 10 was only second to the Concorde in speed.
It's like cars, aeroliners having become boring, they all look the same now. The VC10 may have been noisy any dirty, but fast and beautiful definately.
4 x Rolls Royce Conways. I was all of 7 years old when I already knew that fact. I never did get to fly on the VC10 but I regularly saw her climbing out of Ikeja Airport in Lagos, Nigeria. I'm pretty sure the Fireflash from Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds was originally based on the VC10.
Why can't they make a modern day version of this aircraft with more fuel efficient and noise reduced engines with the modern day capacity. Would make for very interesting compared to the humdrum being churned out. After all if the Boeing landings were described as a controlled crash landing and the VC 10 glided in and took off smoothly and with a short take off!! Maybe I'm missing something. A fan blade short of an engine possibly!
Had the privilege to sit on the flight deck of an RAF vc-10 to Kai Tak airport. The most beautiful airliner ever, nothing comes close....apart from concorde 👍
These beautiful birds were designed and built specifically for servicing the Empire countries. Marvellous British engineering. BOAC we’re responsible for their short commercial success. The RAF kept them going for years.
I've looped this video hundreds of times over the past few years; it's genuinely the highlight of my day. Love the VC10.
In my opinion, the VC10 was the most beautiful airliner ever built. I find rear engined more attractive than wing engines, and I love those wide, well swept back wings. The T tail is also gorgeous ! I seldomly saw them at Toronto International Airport (now Pearson), YYZ, but when I did, it was very exciting. Aarre Peltomaa
Fully agree!!!
It does look fantastic but I think the honour of most beautiful has to go to Concorde
The Concorde was the most beautiful human object ever built.
I totally agree!
That and the BAC 1/11.
What a stunning machine, May 18th 1971. I flew on a BOAC Super VC10 from London to New York and Los Angeles, only wish I could do it again. Flying today may be cheaper in real terms, but you look at this aeroplane, and then you realise how much has been lost.
When I was a youngster in the ‘70’s I used to fly on a VC10 to and from Iran and I remember having my little BOAC book signed and sitting in the cockpit for what seemed like hours chatting to the flight crew. Good times/memories, great aircraft.
Junior Jet Club Book.
Me too :-) - to Doha!
Junior Jet Club, we had the same (my Twin & I) since we lived in Nairobi. I lost my book years ago, but got a really good copy off e-bay, with only one entry, for my Son. When we flew BA LHR to LBA in 2016 the crew were fascinated, and pulled all the stops, even letting me take a photo of my son with the captains hat on in the cockpit. We tried again with Fly Be in 2019, they were clueless and useless.
I can't belive how elegant this plane looks in BOAC colours. Looks like this livery was made specifically for the VC-10
I am quite certain - that livery, on that plane, is the best airliner paint job of all time.
@@Longboardsinglefin Agreed.
I have a large 86 inches long model of this airplane on UA-cam
Boac Super vc10 cutaway airplane model
About a 9.8 on the fricking kick ass awesome scale. A level the current crop of lookalike twins on the wing airliners don't even come to reaching. Definitely one of the most beautiful airliners ever built.
Agreed Chris and I'm an aviation buff !
I miss the 8s, Tristar, 727s, etc
The A 350 looks like a 787 and 777s son!!
Nose-787,aft fuselage 777
Spectacular. A real thing of beauty. And I think the World's most powerful jetliner in her day. I saw the VC10s and heard them, very often until the RAF retired them in Sept. 2013.
Most beautifull Plane ever built!! Great Britain schould be proud of it !!
Hard to believe we used to make fantastic airliners like that in Britain - all by ourselves...
Greg Jones unlikely, had America not helped most of Europe would be speaking Russian now
You do realise that the Americans were funding the Nazis in the run-up to WW2. Research Prescott Bush (grandfather of George Bush snr). These wars are engineered by the same network of people. They fund both sides. Wars create massive wealth for them and they also retain power.
Joining the EEC was the beginning of the end for Britain...
@@lioii The Second World War was the beginning of the end for the UK.
At the time I took it for granted that UK made planes like that, now every body else i,e younger generation takes it for granted that we are now a 5th rate piss poor useless country only on the same par as Pakistan or Bangladeshi, for f:ck sack what as happened to this once great country, to me it,s not real, don,t make our own cars on more, country,s which we use class as shit now make,s cars i,e Ta, Ta or of a like
As a kid we lived overlooking Montego Bay airport. BOAC VC10 often ran late departure past curfew-the super loud crackling of those 4 engines could be heard for a long time.
I loved it! Gorgeous airplane.
The most beautiful airliner ever !!! I flew on it several times to Asia.....including rides in the cockpit. I feel so so lucky !!!
Somehow I love the T-tailed designs, each plane looked so sharp and aerodynamic, the VC10s,, the 1-11s, 727,DC-9/80, Tu-134/154, IL-62. Just the side profile of the sharply raked tail at the beginning of the video conveys a sense of speed and grace. In contrast, the current gen planes, especially the widebodies, look like gigantic flying bovines.
Totally agree. And don't forget the Trident! I never got to go on one of those, but I managed all the others you listed apart from the 1-11 and the two Tupolevs. A vanished age.
No shout out to my office of 6 years the C-141?
@@gerardmoran9560 Yes, that too. Looks much better than its successor the C17.
I was lucky enough to be a steward on the VC10 for both Gulf Air and BA. Without doubt the most beautiful piece of sculpture ever to take to the air. These were the days when we manufactured our own fine aircraft in the UK instead of today when we just make bits of them. They were glory days. I was thoroughly spoiled and I knew it.
I got to fly London-Beirut in a Gulf Air VC-10 in the 70s. No doubt the most beautiful, most elegant subsonic airliner ever built. But then there is Concorde in the supersonic league... 🙂
@@coriscotupi Thanks for your post. They were good times for me anyway.
WOW! The most beautiful, sexiest, fastest (subsonic) plane ever built. Reminds me of my school holidays in Africa. Still LOVE them.
I grew up living in Isleworth from 1960 to 1979 right under the flight path to runway 27R at Heathrow and used to spend hours seeing the planes arriving or taking off and wondered where they were coming from or heading to. My first jet flight was on a BOAC VC10 from London to New York in 1967. Through my life I have been lucky enough to travel to many parts of the world that I only dreamed about when I was growing up.
Andrew D. Gordon A.D.G. Productions, me too. Except we were under 27L, although they were calibrated as 28/09 back then. One of my favourite memories was the old Flying Tigers 747’s.
@@Pte1643 Yes I remember Flying Tigers aircraft as well as Seaboard World DC8s. I think my favorite was the air france Bréguet 763 and of course Concorde coming over the house at around 9:15pm.
@@Pte1643 28/10
@@andrewbarker4986 ah, yes. I never even noticed the typo when I posted.
Omg... she and the B747 are the two
Most STUNNING works of sky-art “sculpture”!
After Concorde, the most beautiful aeroplane ever made.
Yes, within the world of airliners I agree totally
Boeing 747?
747 was big but hardly graceful unlike Concorde and the VC 10, the Airbus a340-600 comes on 3rd for best looking passenger aircraft.
The VC-10 was already in the air whilst 707's and DC 8's were still on the runway.
Are you sure ? IIRC the 707 first flew in ~1957 while the VC-10 first flew in 1962
@@johnbridgman4310 I think he meant take off performance.
The VC-10 would have climbed to about 1,000 feet by the time a 707 was wheels up
Very true, but the fuel cost was much higher and the loads much smaller. Hence the 707 and DC-8 sold in the 1000’s (1,421 between the two) the VC-10 in the dozens (54). It’s all about earnings, profitability, reliability, and cost.
True but they didn't sell well like DC 8s and 707s.
Wonderful takeoff shot of a VC-10! Great sound too! As one who grew up as a kid in Park Ridge, IL close to Chicago's O'Hare Field back in the 1960's, I can fondly recall on occasion watching one of these unique and beautiful looking BOAC airliners loudly flying overhead eastbound for the U.K. Thanks for sharing!
Ahh, sooo many memories of this beautiful aircraft, with its massive "T Tail" Along with the Caravelle, this is one beautifully designed piece of eye candy, where aircraft design HAD character
Ever fly on one Chris?
I was on the wrong side of the Atlantic
I was in the RAF and flew from Sardinia back to Brüggen in Germany when a detachment had finished in an RAF VC 10. RAF VC 10's differed from those operated by British Airways in that passengers were seated facing the rear of the aircraft on the ground's that it was safer for passengers.
´The most beautiful piece of sculpture ever to take to the air...´ as TimFly 767 has commented says it all. A gorgeous aeroplane and the most handsome of all jet airliners - and I include Concorde in that comparison. My father flew them for BOAC & BA and, as a youngster, I was lucky enough fly in them quite a bit. There is nothing like them - just wonderful from whichever angle you view.
This is a Standard VC-10. The slightly shorter fuselage is evident. On the port side, both entrance doors are forward of the wing. The title "BOAC" occupies a slightly different position on the Standard VC-10 compared to the Super. Both stunning machines to look at, but the Super with the slightly longer more graceful appearance, combined with the BOAC livery creates a beautiful image that hasn't been repeated on the same level since.
Plus, all civil registered BOAC Super VC10s had a UK registration beginning G-ASxx; the five East African Airways ('EAA') Super VC-10s were registered either 5H-xxx, 5X-xxx or 5Y-xxx.
All civil-registered BOAC Standard VC10s had registrations beginning G-ARxx.
The only exceptions to the above rules were G-ASIW, G-ASIX and G-ATDJ (which were Standards that flew with BUA and BCal), and G-AXLR (a Type 1106 VC10 which combined the shorter Standard fuselage with the longer Super wing and the more powerful Super Conway engines). RAE used G-XLR as a flying test bed for the Rolls Royce RB-211 high-bypass engine.
Apart from the EAA Supers, all other foreign-registered VC10s were former BOAC/BUA/BCal Standards.
Also the Super had four thrust reversers
So true but they just burned too much fuel and the 707 and DC 8 helped end the VC 10 .
Still a great looking airplane, especially the Super VC 10
I'm fortunate to have an 85 inch long VC 10 model airplane in BOAC
@@xetalq BOAC Standards were G-ARVA- RVM , BOAC Supers SGA-SGR .BUA SIW,SIX,TDJ,RTA
The BOAC Standard had a smaller wing area too ,same wing span though .
VC 10 has a spirit you never know it unless you experience that aircraft.There are some look alike vc10 like the ilyushin iL62 but we must add our voices and demand a new vc 10 with same conway engines but improved, our voices would be heeded to one day i believe.
VC10, BOAC's magnificent airplane. I left Mauritius in it on my way to Canada in 1980. We are now August 2024.❤ British Airways
To this day, no non-supersonic airliner has beaten the VC10's record of fastest crossing of the Atlantic.
What was the record? Maybe now the 747 G-CIVP in 4h56min?
Planes and Games yes it beat it by 5 minutes think the record prior was 5hrs1min
CV-990 Coronado?
@@avtom_ That was the fastest subsonic airliner but it didn't beat the VC10's crossing time
The 747 only took the record because it had a massive tailwind due to a hurricane that was occurring at the same time.
Flew on a Super VC10 from Los Angeles to Sydney, Australia..Very impressed with how quiet it was.
With which airline and via where?
@@andrewbarker4986
Via Honolulu and Fiji, BOAC.
same here in 1972, came with family, i was 12, took off on march 1 landed march 3, lol
Climbed like a homesick angel.
My speakers are gone, but was worth it....
Outstanding footage!
Classic airliner
Thanks for the memories! Flew it many times in First Class ORD/LHR/ORD. Very quiet. Very smooth flying. 👍.
Flew on it many times ,one of the nicest aircraft to grace our skies !!!
Lucky you!!
Still holds the subsonic World speed record for a passenger airliner
On a particular route .
However, the Convair 990 was faster
Flew on BA061/April 1976 to the Seychelles via East Africa.
Excellent flight and service with BA.
A magnificent, fast, reliable British built aircraft!
🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴
Superb, beautiful aircraft, a joy to watch.
First flew on one aged about 8 months to Singapore when dad was posted there in late 1965. Remember the return a little more-I was almost three then. They came round with a little basket of boiled sweets to suck so your ears wouldn't "pop" during takeoff.
Wow, incredible rate of climb after landing gear up!
Absolute power!!!! 😯😯
what a lovely sound..
Flying on them was a joy too, I was in the RAF and went overseas a lot of the time always on this beauty.
Thanks for uploading. Timeless footage of a great classic jet
Love that noise!!!
Gary Orlando - Agree Gary - now everyone who buys property under a flight path whinge about aircraft noise from aircraft that are not as loud- I loved the VC10, BAC111, B707 & DC8 flying over because of their sounds- knew what was coming by the pitch of their engines and would run outside to see if I was right-😂 one of the reason I was drawn into the Aviation Industry in my early 20's
Spent 20 years working on VC10s ,worked on at least 36 ,flown on 19 . It's the best ! While we're talking fastest ... A DC-8 and prototype VC10 both flew supersonic during early flight testing .
Is it just me, or are those Rolls Royce Conways very satisfying to listen to.
Wonderful, love the sound of the VC-10 and the Super VC-10. Yes Britain made some outstanding aircraft BUT they made them for such small applications. In this case the VC-10 was built to serve “hot and High” African airports. The Trident was too small and underpowered. By the time the 2nd and 3rd versions had been produced the 727 owned the market. Interference by the government was the big issue telling BEA and BOAC what they could or couldn’t buy.
Not quite. Regarding the Trident, it was BEA in particular telling de Havilland they were building the wrong aeroplane and needed to make it smaller. This tehy did - only for BEA to tell them later that it wasn't big enough and asking the UK government to give them money so they could buy 727s. It was the UK government that MADE BEA order the Trident 3B.
So much more beautiful than the anonymous twin jets of today
Back when aviation was interesting.
Tooooo right. glad im not the only. I was lucky enough to fly on an old 1-11 back in 1998 and I remember there being so many of the classics at gatwick DC-10s and L10-11s. Manchester airport was fun back then too with them old 737-200 in british airways Landor colours.. so noisey and cool .. Now theyre all flying Ipads :(.
Agreed, so many more different types of airliners.
Today, mostly twin after twin!!
I too was a child of the early 60's & loved the VC-10 in all its various series. It definitely suited the BOAC colour scheme rather than the BA & looked awesome in BCAL.🫡😀👍🫶
Flew in the VC10 to Aden in 1966 direct flight,7hours
I remember being fascinated by the G-ARVM VC-10 at Cosford Air Museum.
What a stunning aircraft!
It's loud, very loud, but it really is a good looking aircraft. And was the fastest passenger aircraft after Concorde.
@S. Mesut actually the Convair 990 was faster
@@philmontejano5971 True, for a short time, but the VC 10 was still flying passengers 25 years after the Convair was retired. So the VC 10 was only second to the Concorde in speed.
I love the sound of the 60s
Bloody beautiful
Lovely sound
Until arrival of the 747, that was the pinnacle of public jet transport back then.
Beautiful aircraft.
⚠⚠DANGER⚠⚠
HIGH LEVEL OF BEAUTY & NOISE
It's like cars, aeroliners having become boring, they all look the same now. The VC10 may have been noisy any dirty, but fast and beautiful definately.
Love the T tail!
@@user-ky6vw5up9m stick shaker time
The most elegant aircraft ever built
I can't decide which is the most beautiful airliner, the VC10, Concorde or the Comet.
My favorite plane. Rode on one from JFK - LHR in 1969.
LOOVE the vickers vc10
Where was that VC 10 heading to?
The 111s own mother! She is really special!
I can definitely see the VC-10 being the mother figure of the BAC 1-11 due to their use of low bypass turbofans.
Queen of the skies
Beautiful!Hard to think that we actually built that!
The roar of four Conways. Fantastic
4 x Rolls Royce Conways. I was all of 7 years old when I already knew that fact. I never did get to fly on the VC10 but I regularly saw her climbing out of Ikeja Airport in Lagos, Nigeria. I'm pretty sure the Fireflash from Gerry Anderson's Thunderbirds was originally based on the VC10.
Those Conways sound awesome.
Its shot from the same sport that Big jet TV uses, but 55 years ago it was empty back then.
Definitely a gorgeous plane...
Why can't they make a modern day version of this aircraft with more fuel efficient and noise reduced engines with the modern day capacity. Would make for very interesting compared to the humdrum being churned out. After all if the Boeing landings were described as a controlled crash landing and the VC 10 glided in and took off smoothly and with a short take off!! Maybe I'm missing something. A fan blade short of an engine possibly!
My first flight was on one of those that very year, 1970, aged 8, London to Sydney. Maybe that's my one.
One of the sexiest aircraft ever made!
Awesome...back in the days when airliners had character and elegance.Todays computer generated flying plastic all look the same
Wow, that was pretty loud, almost as loud as a DC-8-63!
Fabulous aircraft. I remember seeing it often at JFK in the early 70s. One of the BA flights with it operated LHR-JFK-BDA-JFK-LHR.
Had the privilege to sit on the flight deck of an RAF vc-10 to Kai Tak airport. The most beautiful airliner ever, nothing comes close....apart from concorde 👍
Great days of british aviation 💯
majestic
LOVELY !!
Really futuristic plane, like something out of " Thunderbirds".
Where do you think Gerry Anderson got his inspiration from?
That surely was the inspiration for Fireflash.......!!!
Only to be banned from commercial air travel when noise abatement people stuck noses in.
My favourite plane 👌👌👌
Something about screaming smokey jet engines and rotating beacons.. I miss em
Nostalgic!
These beautiful birds were designed and built specifically for servicing the Empire countries. Marvellous British engineering. BOAC we’re responsible for their short commercial success. The RAF kept them going for years.
Goose bumps
Thames had great videos!!
very nice!
Another Example of what Britain used to be able to do - ON OUR OWN!!!
surely not more Brexitist tosh... don't forget few even wanted it even BOAC for all it was a beautiful aircraft...
Sounds like a jet fighter.
Probably the best jet the Brits have built! Bar none!
Sounds like a fighter jet on takeoff!!
They used to fly over my house from JFK and undoubtedly the noisiest airliner ever
No US airline flew this airplane, nor the Trident, and the Comet lV
And the cabin air didn't come from some oil-drenched engine compartment. Sigh!
Great to see these images as TV shots rather than film. It makes them, seem much more recent and "real" looking.
airplanes should sound like this
British aviation RIP .