BBC News VC10's last Operational Flight 20th Sept 2013

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@drbloomer6380 4 жыл бұрын

Still one of the most beautiful aircraft of all time.

@donrobinson6613 7 ай бұрын

Flew from Auckland to London return on BOAC Super VC-10's in 1974, best flights ever.

@rickcullarn1347 9 ай бұрын

The RAF VC10 was my first airliner flight to Singapore. Brilliant!

@user-ph6vc3nk8k 5 ай бұрын

The vc10 is a old beautiful old jet and the sound uhhh one the best sounds in history

@laguna3fase4 6 жыл бұрын

Spent 7 years flying around the world as RAF cabin crew on 10 Sqn VC10s in the 1980s and 1990s. Wouldn't change a thing. Miss them days!

@williamcarrington3474 5 жыл бұрын

Super Stewardesses too , best wishes .

@philmontejano5971 4 жыл бұрын

Robert are the VC 10s or the 171 feet long Super VC 10s? I have a BOAC Super vc10 mode in 24th scale

@cosmo10973ify Жыл бұрын

Flew to Hong Kong onboard an RAF VC10 back in 1980. Sat in the cockpit and spoke to ATC at Kai Tak, I was only 7 at the time but I remember the captain was a Canadian Squadron leader. Great times!

@patricksmith4424 27 күн бұрын

Its amazing to think that this beautiful aircraft was totally designed and built in the UK. What on earth happened to the UK aircraft industry...Thanks Maggie.

@ramonyabut1522 6 жыл бұрын

Those VC10s were extremely deafening to hear taking off. The roar of those RR Conway engines, in full takeoff power, could wake up the dead for miles around. The BAC 1-11s and the Concordes were also extremely loud on takeoff. Damn, those Rolls Royce low-bypass turbofan jet engines, they roar like rockets. Nevertheless, I miss these old aircraft. They had character. Today's aircraft are boring to watch because they don't leave trails of smoke as they take off, and they're so quiet.

@miltonhey4317 5 жыл бұрын

You can not be serious or you are very young.

@philmontejano5971 4 жыл бұрын

Ramon ,was Trident loud?

@FlightX101 2 жыл бұрын

I had the honor of the concorde flying over my house on take off from JFK in tbe 90s and early 2000s. The Olympus engines were stupid loud haha

@roasthunter 2 жыл бұрын

I never saw a VC10 but remember concorde well living near Heathrow. I remember being in Hatton Cross Tube Station car park which sits at the end of one of the runways. Concorde took off at dusk overhead, full afterburner blue flames out the back, the roar was was epic, set off every car alarm in the carpark. Will never forget it, it was a real experience not to be forgotten.

@m.hstudioproductions6642 Жыл бұрын

@@miltonhey4317 Have you ever heard of AvGeeks?

@bournemouthisshit 9 ай бұрын

Very beautiful. I flew on one of the VC 10's based at Brize Norton as a cadet... Trainee pilot doing bumps and circuits for three hours. Quiet inside, hellishly noisy out...

@Fizzbomb123 7 жыл бұрын

London Heathrow to Rawalpindi and back via Middle East stopovers throughout the late 70s/early 80s, this plane will forever be my favourite.

@mrwooden7133 Жыл бұрын

Same. Late 78. BA VC10 with stopover in Amman, Jordan both ways. Return journey had to avoid flying over Iran due to revolution.

@Fizzbomb123 Жыл бұрын

@@mrwooden7133 Yes, we also stopped over at Amman, Jordan. I remember seeing ‘Alia’ livery Jordanian jets.

@williamcarrington3474 5 жыл бұрын

As a paratrooper , it was a luxury to fly to Bermuda on a V.C.10 . An exchange visit with the islands' Regt. Defence Force .

@stickman53feable 10 жыл бұрын

Sad day. I remember seeing these birds quite a bit over the UK while I was stationed at RAF Mildenhall from 2000-2004 as an MH-53M flight engineer (another aircraft sadly gone).

@stephenayres7276 7 жыл бұрын

She forgot to mention it was also used by BOAC to fly paying passangers in none military guise. And the sub sonic trans atlantic speed record!!

@roasthunter 2 жыл бұрын

A 747 took the record a couple of years back now after your comment.

@bac1111967 3 жыл бұрын

I loved the Vic, sad day

@grahamsawyer831 2 жыл бұрын

proper end of an era this

@leedavid2973 3 жыл бұрын

The end of an empire. The plane itself is the last all british made huge commercial aircraft in service, pride of the british aviation industries back the their prime era of the 50s and the 60s

@murrayent1able 5 жыл бұрын

And I thought this was a start of a new era, it's the first time hearing of these or seeing videos of this jets.

@babygoose1 6 жыл бұрын

Hero sleeves!

@JimWalsh-rl5dj 4 жыл бұрын

Cor some howlers there, bsed at Brize since 1984? Only 15 years out, the captain described as a Sqd Ldr was wearing Flt Lt shoulder slides....

@mickeydiver17 4 жыл бұрын

Very true. My Dad was a Chief Tech on Line Service Sqn from 71 to 75.

@laguna3fase4 Жыл бұрын

I think they were referring to 101Sqn who moved to Brize Norton in 1984. 10 Sqn had been there since 1966, until it disbanded in 2005 and the remaining aircraft moved to 101 Sqn.

@waynejones3428 4 жыл бұрын

GR8 JET!!! 💨✈ 👏 😰 💥 🎉 🍸

@christopherbriggs9504 10 ай бұрын

Was there long before 1984 typical reporter

@superbike1 6 жыл бұрын

Why don't we base a new aircraft on the basic design but a bit bigger.

@posypoodle6034 3 жыл бұрын

Aww, always flew on these when father posted abroad. Didn’t like the backward facing seats, I always puked! Even so, happy times.

@gmcjetpilot 6 жыл бұрын

The record from UK to Perth could be broken by any jetliner of the day, like a B707. It was that no one tried. Today Qantas flies that route with +300 passengers well under 16 hours in a B787, beating this record. If the VC10 is still listed as a record holder it is only because no one applied. The myth the VC10 was super fast is not true, it was a jet, with middle of the pack speed of early jets.

@miltonhey4317 5 жыл бұрын

The RAF version would out perform any other passenger aircraft with a similar range.

@Sarge084 4 жыл бұрын

@@miltonhey4317 Absolutely spot on. The RAF VC10 was a hybrid of the shorter standard VC10 with the wings, tailplane, and engines of the super VC10. This gave her the power of the super and lighter body of the standard, with extra fuel capacity of the tail fuel tanks and bigger wing tanks. The aircraft featured in this video was a former civilian aircraft converted for the tanker role with fuel tanks inside the fuselage where seating would have been in it's civil passenger role. The RAF bought up all the old BOAC and Ethiopian Airlines airframes and the spares stores to keep theirs flying for several more years. Not all the airframes were converted, after being stripped of spare parts some were used for runway clearance exercises at RAF Abingdon, for fire training and SAS hijack recovery exercises. The remains of the airframe used for training at RAF Brize Norton was eventually broken up for scrap, it looked a sad sight by the time it reached that point!

@StephenKNicholson 2 жыл бұрын

The ex civilian VC10s and Super VC10s were from BA and East African

@roasthunter 2 жыл бұрын

A VC10 held the transatlantic speed crossing (subsonic) for 41 years (5 hours and 1 minute) until a 747 broke it February 2020 during Storm Ciara (4 hours 56 minutes)