Created by: Jelle Hieminga, 2001

Updated: 27 January 2023

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What to expect in the future:

• Information on routes flown by BOAC VC10s

• More photos from the RAF days

• More technical data

And perhaps a bit later on in the future:

• More technical system descriptions

(No promises on when to expect any of this I'm afraid... )

What's new:

• Save Arthur Scarf's VC medal.
• CAHC may move to new location near Newquay.
• Display flying... and ATC.
• My page about the Falklands conflict has been updated to include a new story, A Spot of Bother.
• Photos of G-ARVL after the first Royal Flight on a VC10.
• A RAF passenger information brochure from 1967.
• Cornwall Aviation Heritage Centre closes its doors.
• Trouble at Newquay?
• A timeline of important VC10 related dates.
• 2015 VC10 Bookazine reissued.
• New photos of VC10 keytags and another souvenir.
• Small bits of ZD241 for sale.
• 60th Anniversary coverage, including some thoughts about the past 60 years.
• A Little VC10derness is now on Twitter.
• AutoNav and Data Link testing on the VC10.
• Sky Talk 2 is available.
• A look back at the Falklands War and the VC10's involvement.
• ZD241 has been scrapped.
• Gp Cpt Gerry Bunn CBE (1941-2022)
• ZD241 may have been scrapped - correction.
• 56 Years... is available again, see here.
• A work in progress: an overview of VC10 related postcards.
• US registered VC10s have an owner.
• Three new photos of a JC Wings model here.
• A set of BUA Take Off performance graphs.
• Some thoughts about BOAC's VC10 orders.
• ZA147 scrapped at Bruntingthorpe.
• Two books about aviation careers.
• Seven additional photos on G-ARVJ page.
• Four VC10s added to US register.
• Another news item about a BOAC Steward's memoir.
• Two small news items.
• A story about maintenance findings that could have turned out a lot worse.
• XV108's encounter with a thunderstorm within its first two weeks in service.
• Some new and changed images of the mock-up and test section.
• A few commemorative covers.
• AircrewInterviewTV talks to former RAF VC10 pilot Chris Nash.
• A new article about the politics surrounding the Vickers 1000, leading up to the VC10 orders.
• Second volume of Freddie Laker biography out.
• Book from a 10Sqn steward now out.
• A very personal account about the crash of 5X-UVA at Addis Ababa Airport in 1972.
• Added photos to the G-ASIX page.
• Classic Gatwick Jetliners book out.
• How did the VC10 contribute to development of glass cockpits? Read about it here.
• Spot the differences: flight deck photos from the early days.
• Super VC10 crash Addis Ababa remembered.
• Still two intact VC10s at Bruntingthorpe.
• A new 1:200 scale model of G-ARVM from JC Wings.
• ZA150 photobombing Top Gear crew.
• Several audio recordings from BOAC/BA flight decks.
• Two new photos of 9G-ABP.
• News about the aircraft at Bruntingthorpe.
• Some memories of the final BA flights in March 1981, for G-ASGF and G-ASGL, and a magic trick that went wrong.
• There is a short review and erratum available for Lance Cole's latest title.
• I have finished building pages about the individual airframes! G-ASGR was the last one that needed to be added.

To keep up a presence on social media, I have switched to using Twitter. Follow @TrueVC10derness to keep track of news or updates to this website.

The Facebook page below has been used for several years to announce new items, discuss everything VC10 and connect to other fans. I have had to suspend the use of this page as Facebook doesn't allow me to use what they call a 'grey' account. Because of this, the page has been put into hibernation on 30 April 2022.