Dec 28, 2020 · The VC10 was a second-generation jetliner designed in the 1960s and manufactured into the 1970s. It incorporated advanced engineering, new aerodynamics, and design features, to produce a swept, sculpted machine easily identifiable by its high T-tail design and rear-engine configuration.

Mar 30, 2017 · This book blends the story of VC10 development with a well-researched tale of corporate and political power play. It asks; just what lay behind the sales failure of the VC1O? Politics played an important part of course, as did BOACs tactics, and a whodunnit cast of politico-corporate events and machinations at the highest level of society ...

Apr 24, 2017 · Key players in the story, from Tony Benn to famous test pilot Brian Trubshaw (Concorde), are cited and quoted. The VC10 was the nation’s biggest jet airliner of its age and regarded as the world’s best looking airliner.

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Jan 1, 2000 · With the help of archival material and interviews with former Vickers employees, Lance Cole tells the complete VC10 story, including its tremendous payload, range and performance capabilities; variants produced; and its development into a transport that is still flown by the RAF today.