I was so proud to have actually made it into the RAF and qualified as an aircraft engineer. I had pictures of the VC10 all over my bedroom walls as a child and I got to work on them for 10 years. WHY they dont build airliners to this design now is beyond me! Todays aircraft the people behind the wings get the roar from the engines for HOURS! The mighty Queen of The Skies had CLEAN wings (no engine pods) which gave the best performance. Short field take offs were easy and high altitude runway take offs no problem due to those superb Conways They never lost ONE VC-10 (only one blown up by hijackers) safest aircraft there ever was! Such a dream to fly in. GREATLY MISSED😭

My dad was a BOAC VC10 pilot but I didn’t spot him in this video. Gorgeous aircraft. Notice how well dressed (and behaved!) the passengers are.

I not only grew up in this era, but flew on the VC10 many times - indeed, my father was a Senior captain with BOAC and the VC10 was his command for the last seven years of his service with BOAC. What was it like ... ? In all honesty, it was wonderful. The only other type BOAC operated then was the 707, and after a flight on the VC10, no-one wanted to fly the 707. The VC10 was not only far quieter, it was more comfortable and seemed far more modern. If BOAC had two trans-Atlantic flights scheduled within a couple of hours of each other, passengers would often delay their departures to switch to the later VC10 flight, if there were empty seats. Flying in those days - especially internationally - was a far more exclusive (in the best sense of that word) experience then it is now. Yes, we got dressed up to fly - everyone did, back then - and perhaps this served to reinforce the idea that you were doing something special. But I saw parts of the world in the 1960s that most people only saw on TV or in films, and my sense of wonder was intense and never-ending. It was a special time.

What an Era 👍🇬🇧

The most beautiful plane ever built. I flew on it 6 times a year from1967 to 1977 for my school holidays in Freetown and Lusaka. Heaven!

I flew on a VC10 as a kid several times in the early 70s. My Dad had flown on them previously and had made me quite excited about doing so. Miss them both. :)

What a beautiful aircraft, the BOAC livery especially around the nose made it look even sleeker

The VC10 was a beautiful airplane.✈❤🎶☺

Such a beautiful and elegant aircraft...in those days...even economy class passengers were treated like honoured guests....the whole flying experience was a lifetime experience and memory..those were indeed the golden years of travel and aviation... thanks for sharing. .!!

I flew on the VC10 from Auckland to Melbourne on the first leg of its long multi-stop flight from Auckland to London. I still have the BOAC teaspoon I kept for a souvenir.

In early June 1967 my family managed to get out of Aman, Jordan just a couple of days before the outbreak of the Six Day War that broke out in the Middle East. We left early in the morning from Aman to London on a BOAC Vickers VC - 10. After we landed in London the flight attendant told my Mom that the Captain requested our presence in the cockpit. My Mom took my 5 year old self and my three year old sister bro the front of the plane and the Captain shook her hand and then let me and my sister look inside the cockpit for a couple of minutes. It was quite an amazing experience for a young boy. We left London a few days later bound for New York via TWA on the magnificent 707. Ahh the memories.🙂

Above all it's a classic design, with the engines at the back. Very Elegant looking plane 👍

That's for bringing back my favorite airplane.

Flying those times was wonderful and so beautiful..

I'd really love to pour through the operation and maintenance manuals of this beautiful machine.

I can't get over how much I love and appreciate your channel. I'm only 20, but I can't stop watching these great pieces of history! Thanks again for helping preserve all of this, you're doing a great service

I flew on the VC10 many times in the 70s courtesy of the RAF (thanks guys from this Squaddie) & luved from the first time. It is a beautiful looking aircraft & after Concorde was the fastest commercial passenger aircraft ever built, which was a surprise to me & after Concorde demise it then became the fastest as the RAF had it still in service. Amazing. It was comfortable to travel as well. I salute you VICKY 10!

I have always found the VC-10 an attractive aircraft and unique design . Thats why I built a model of it to add to my collection of the most important aircraft .

Would have loved to work this aircraft as cabin crew

I flew March 3rd 1970 on a VC10 to Joh/Burg stopping at Rome, Nairobi and landing at Jan Smuts at 21 it was an experience that I have never forgotten. BOAC at their finest and the plane was a dream.

Stunning airliner. Simply beautiful.

@0:14,"It's a romantic place at any time! Holiday atmosphere, business journies, never a dull moment". LOL, imagine that same narrator saying the same thing about today's air travel. :P

I flew on this plane many times as a teenager going to Lusaka from England also with SAA happy times

I flew from Heathrow on a VC-10 to NYC. As an avid aviation fan at the time, I intentionally worked my flight schedule to fly on as many different aircraft as possible including Lockheed Electra, Douglas DC6, DC7 and DC8, Boeing 707 and 720, Vickers Viscount, Vanguard, DeHavilland Comet, Boeing 727 and 737, Hawker-Siddley Trident, Convair 880 and 990, SUD Caravelle and BAC 111. I always thought the VC10 was the queen of the skies in those days but it was a true example of government meddling in business decisions and poor or grossly deferred decisions killed the marketing and Vickers, DeHavilland and Bristol. A sad story for a great airplane.

you preserve and bring out such gems of aviation history- and even from a film- history standpoint. Iwish your channel had a million followers! people don't know what they are missing. :(

Back when flying was a pleasure rather than just an ordeal to be endured before your holiday

Flew on the VC 10s , along with Britannia’s and comets . The VC 10 was was a lot more comfortable and pleasant than the 707.

I flew the VC10 to Tehran in the 70’s and they were brilliant. Quieter than a 707 and they seemed more comfortable. If I ever got a choice to go back to boarding school to the UK it was on a VC10!

My first jet powered flight in 1973 aged 9. A RAF VC10 from Brize Norten to Hong Kong's Kai Tak, via Cyprus and Gan. Absolutely loved that plane, especially that distinctive howl of the RR Conway engines on the approach. Our pilot nailed the checker board approach over Kowloon. After that several more times, but I'll always remember the first to HK. ❤

My father was one of the Captains in the cockpit on this flight, Captain Stan Ward. Sadly no longer with us. I have many memories of flying as a child in this era, so different from todays experience.

I would love to fly the VC-10.

Lusaka and Kano ❤️ Significant parts of my growing up! I love that these were part of those years and making me who I am ❤️❤️❤️

I cannot bring myself to say enough good things about this remarkable aircraft: graceful, elegant, fast and comfortable. There was also something rather majestic about the VC10 during takeoffs and landings. Clearly ahead of its time, it remains one plane that is sorely missed.

beauty.... as these old planes land, can't see how they stopped with out the Spoilers

Love the RR Conway chorus at takeoff

Hello Christian!....missed you! Flew the BOAC VC-10 as a pax from Nicosia Cyprus to London Heathrow , September 1973! It was a technical landing , plane coming from Lusaka ,... Africa, (refuelling) and my dad put me aboard , 3 o'clock in the morning....!!! I was on my way to Scotland , were I learned to be an aviator......

I immigrated from England to the USA. On March 29th 1976. It was a flight on a VC-10 from Manchester to New York.

Brilliant videos. Thanks for sharing.

They would cram 220 passengers in a plane that size today.. Beautiful bird - as elegant as they come.

Nice airplane! I was a flight engineer on Soviet Il-62 (62M). They are similar, but we have 5 crew members in the cockpit (minimum 4). It was a good time!

Wish at least one was still flying. ❤

I flew on a VC 10 to London, from Buenos Aires in 1975 when I was 10 years old, but the airline was the former Britiish Caledonian! Greetings from Buenos Aires Argentina 🇦🇷 ♥

Really a nice aircraft however like the Trident it suffered from that British Aviation illness, Myopia. Only 54 were built because it was built for hot and high African airports, even shorter runways on the continent. The speed is cool, but the bump in speed never was a big seller. The downside is the fuel cost and terrific noise. Not only the design limited its use but that crazy multi departmental government monster that told the builders what they could build and the U.K. Airlines what they could buy.

We had the ads in Australia. Captain Bristow saying : the VC 10 with HUSHPOWER. Gorgeous aeroplane.

Great Video!

A great aeroplane. I was a passenger on BOAC VC10s many times. Very quiet compared with other planes at the time, such as the Boeing. The VC10 was advertised as "VCtenderness for a good reason." I rarely fly anywhere now I'm retired. Flying is no longer a pleasure or adventure.

I would give anything travel-wise to get this type of flying and service back. I miss these days so much with the full service, hygiene and less crazy people on board.

As a 10 year old in 1969, I flew the VC-10 from JNB to LHR via NBO. On the 4 hour JNB/NBO flight, I 'feel in love' with my flight attendant. My little heart was broken when I discovered she disembarked at NBO for a crew change. Dang it, I should've got her number. 🤩😂

I flew on a "Super VC10" from Heathrow to Johannesburg in 1969

Beautiful! Best plane I never flew in. I always hoped U.S. airlines would have bought a few VC 10s.

Served the RAF well,during its military role at BZZ

"ECONOMY" Class seats THEN are probably LARGER than FIRST Class seats today..

VC10. Me love.

God what a nice airplane, isn't it 😍

Re-upped in better quality.

Elegant ,beautiful aircraft the T tailplane sets it off ,must have been very quiet with the engines at theback

Love the sound of the old planes thats why i look em up on youtube. Modern Jets are too quiet.

After flying Lockheed Constellations on the Lagos to London route from 1958, alone and aged 7, and also possibly the Bristol Britannia, the Vickers VC10 took over for the round trip 3 times a year, in the days of the BOAC Junior Jet Club. These journeys began in the days of Nissan huts as terminals at London well before the spanking new building featured in this video. Being taken into the Captain's cabin and seeing him walk casually around the aircraft was standard. Exhilarating especially as an impressionable small boy, and always well looked after by BOAC staff. I am wondering if some legs of the journey were not also made in the Comet? Possibly Triploi / Nice / Barcelona to London?

Those days the economy class really was like todays business class!!

1:25 - Narrator's Voice Buckles

Lucky guy 😊

That is phenomenal Aircraft,I am truly surprised we did not see that fellow in Latin American airspace more often. For what I can see it was made for the Airports of those times.

The plane with HUSHPOWER. 🎉

Took it from New York to London.

Could you do a video on the de havilland comet?

I worked and flew in airforce service . Hot rod of airliners , it was fast .

Boeing B377 Stratocruiser at 6:50 !!!! :D

Do you mind if I link your URL to a piece of work I am doing on a VC10?

The VC10 airplane what were the destinations this aircraft has flown to? Bangkok? Tokyo? New York? Singapore?

Those amazing almost full wing leading edge slats and trailing edge flaps, something Boeing didn't have.

a m a z i n g

As a child flying to and from Hong Kong to London my Dad specifically asked for the VC10 and most of my BOAC Junior Jet Club logs were in those planes. Yet another brilliant British product that was let down by the British Government(s) and the corruption of BOAC wanting to use Boeings

Commenting on what was stated in Part 2 of Jet! When Britain Ruled the Skies. The stewardesses commented that people preferred this aircraft over Boeing's 707, saying that the noise of landing in the latter aircraft was like a controlled crash. Then they commented at the hideous uniform they had to ware...

Such a great film, so evocative of the era. Can you tell me where I would go to get this footage if I used it in a project? Thanks!

I loved flying the VC-10 even one owned by United Arab Airlines! Concorde was a lot more exciting though.

Ah smoking in the air. Great days. 😂

Irony...it was boac that shafted vc10.

Looks like William Whitelaw and Francis Pym at 2.40 lol

"Hush-Power"

7’00”: “There are signs that in the sphere of air travel, matters are often multiracial as well as international.” Hmm, with its initial destination of apartheid Johannesburg? And “probably full of wonder, the inhabitants [of Lusaka] see the aircraft prepare for another stage of its journey” (6’05”); “[Y]et not many years ago, this place [Nairobi] was a wilderness . . . “ (7’30”). Interesting though.

Len Martin of Grandstand football scores fame

Hi guys technically I'm the last guy in the world to have commercially flown this old girl, that's all goodbye

When English was correctly spoken , pronounced and understood .

I just put a video of a,Super Vc 10 up on KZfaq

The most incredibly stunning aircraft ever to fly.

Was that a Bible at 2:45?

Beautiful heritage vid. So colonist though.

Try a little Ten-derness

I flew transatlantic on a VC10. Comfortable and much faster than any other transatlantic flight: 10% less fuel efficient but saved an hour NY-HTR (fuel became an issue from 1973). It was so popular that Boeing paid actors to spread rumours about it's safety record in US airport lounges despite its perfect flight safety record

back in the day when Britain was still british and flying was still flying....todays generic looking tubes with giant coke cans on the wings just don't do it for me anymore...:(

2’50” Orange juice with your bible study...

Not hard to see why the VC10 was superior to the Boeing 707. Too bad it came on stream late in the game. By then, most airlines were fully committed to either the 707 or DC-8.

Anyone else think the world has gone to s*** since the 60s?

Excluding Concorde, and the Comet, British airlines aircraft were at least two years behind American designs. When they produced a good design they could not build it quick enough. TWA wanted to buy 40 Britannia aircraft, but would have to wait two years to get the first half a dozen. So said no.

Ah yes, a quick jaunt in comfort to apartheid. How marvelous.

1:27 voice crack

OMG. How Imperialistic! Horrible

VC 10s failed because they were gas guzzlers..unlike a 707

IT was terrible.