Created by: Jelle Hieminga, 2001

Updated: 5 January 2022

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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:

• 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.