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The VC10 was built and first flown at Brooklands in 1964 and after airline service with British United and later British Caledonian Airways, in 1974 it became the official VIP transport for the Sultan of Oman until retired and flown back to Brooklands on 6 July 1987 and donated to Brooklands Museum by the Sultan of Oman's Royal Flight.
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In 1960 it was improved with a 3, 240 m runway, long enough to accommodate the first generation of intercontinental jet planes such as the Boeing 707, de Havilland Comet, Vickers VC10, Convair 990, and Douglas DC-8, and received its first international flight.
A large new 60, 378 sq ft VC10 flight shed hangar was ready to house the prototype VC10 airliner by 1962 and a second even larger ( 98, 989 sq ft ) flight shed was added alongside this by 1964.
In the 1960s the Vickers VC10 was one of the first types of airliner equipped with a RAT.
At the ministry, he was involved in BOAC's order of Boeing 707 aircraft from the USA, against his own recommendation that they should buy a British aircraft, the Super VC10.
As late as 1972, this airfield was in service as a satellite fit-out and flight test centre for Vickers and latterly the British Aircraft Corporation, linked to their main factory and airfield at nearby Brooklands, Weybridge, capable of taking aircraft as large as the VC10.
10 Squadron reformed in 1966 with the Vickers VC10 C. 1, a RAF version which was a standard VC10 with the Super VC10 wings, tailplane and engine as well as a strengthened floor.
The first VC10 was delivered to Accra on 18 December 1964, and initially conducted proving and training flights, before entering service on 15 February 1965 on the route to London.
The second VC10 was delivered to the airline in June 1965, enabling services to Beirut to commence.
Chaundler flew to Ascension Island on a Vickers VC10 and then to the Falklands on a C-130 Hercules that was dropping supplies by parachute.
However, the BOT was unwilling to grant Caledonian the requested tax exemption and was instead assisting Vickers in selling it the Super VC10, the stretched version of the original " standard " VC10 and Britain's answer to the all-American 707 and DC-8.
Despite the BOT's and Vickers's best efforts, Caledonian's senior management remained unconvinced that the Super VC10 was a worthy competitor of the 707.
The results of its evaluation had shown that the Super VC10 was not competitive with the 707, in terms of amortisation, resale value and availability of finance due to its small production run.
Apart from its insufficient range to fly non-stop from the UK to the US West Coast with a viable payload, significantly smaller cargo capacity and lack of passenger / freighter convertibility, the Super VC10 was also heavier than the 707.
The C. 1 was a variant of the civil ' Standard VC10 ' fitted with the wing and more powerful engines of the ' Super VC10 '.
Introduced as air transport aircraft, the VC10 C. 1 fleet was modified in 1993 to allow it operate in the AAR role as well by the installation of wing mounted refueling pods.
VC10 and first
On 1 July 1966, the squadron reformed yet again and became the first to receive the new Vickers VC10 C. 1, reverting to an air transport squadron at RAF Fairford in July of that year.
A BOAC Super VC10 was the first jet aircraft to land at Seychelles International Airport on 4 July 1971.
In 1978, the RAF announced a plan to convert second-hand civil Vickers VC10 aircraft for conversion to aerial refueling aircraft and the first K2 flew in 1982.
The first issue included a free booklet featuring information on the then recently introduced BOAC VC10.
VC10 and at
** VC10 Wing-7 VC-10s at Prince Sultan Air Base in Saudi Arabia
** VC10 ( for Aeromedical Evacuation )-1 VC10 C1K at RAF Akrotiri from No. 10 Squadron
Currently based at Mount Pleasant are No. 905 Expeditionary Air Wing, No. 1435 Flight with four Eurofighter Typhoons, No. 1312 Flight, with a single VC10 tanker and one Hercules, as well as No. 1564 Flight ( since November 2007 ) with two Sea King helicopters maintained by Sea King Integrated Operational Support ( SKIOS ).
* September 9 – To pressure British authorities into releasing Leila Khaled, a PFLP sympathizer hijacks BOAC Flight 775, a Vickers VC10 flying from Bahrain to Beirut with 114 people on board, and forces it to land at Dawsons Field in Jordan.
The last aircraft to be serviced at St Athan, a Vickers VC10, departed the site on 23 February 2012.
VC10 and 1964
* Vickers VC10 ( 1964 )
VC10 and after
However, former Prime Minister Tony Blair reverted to the VC10 for more sensitive flights, notably during his diplomacy to Pakistan and the Middle East after the 11 September 2001 attacks.
The RAF named their original Vickers VC10 aircraft after Victoria Cross holders.
However, this triple-voting system is by no means the only way to achieve adequate redundancy and reliability, and in fact soon after BEA and de Havilland had decided to go down that route, a parallel trial was set up using a " dual-dual " concept, chosen by BOAC and Vickers for the VC10 4-engined long range aircraft.
VC10 and airline
Although operations were interrupted by the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, and by the Israeli raid on Beirut Airport in 1968 in-which, the airline lost three Comet 4C's, two Caravelles, a Boeing 707, the Vickers VC10, and the Vickers Viscount, MEA restarted by acquiring a Convair 990A from American Airlines, which entered service on 24 June 1969.
VC10 and service
* Where civilian aircraft types have been taken into service, their existing names or alphanumeric designations have often been retained, e. g. the Vickers VC10 or Lockheed TriStar.
Post-WWII, Vickers went on to manufacture the piston-engined Vickers VC. 1 Viking airliner, the Viscount and Vanguard turboprop airliners and ( as part of BAC ) the VC10 jet airliner, which remains in RAF service as an aerial refuelling tanker.
Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft ( FSTA ) is a British project to procure aerial refuelling ( AR ) and air transport ( AT ) for the Royal Air Force to replace VC10 and Lockheed TriStars then in service.
VC10 and with
These were served with contemporary BAC One-Eleven and Vickers VC10 jet aircraft.
Nearest the camera are two BOAC aircraft – a Vickers VC10 ( with the high tail ) and a Boeing 707.
After considerable expansion with increasing commercial success in the 1950s, the Vickers factory expanded to its peak size in the early 1960s in preparation for the VC10 manufacturing programme and became a major part of the new British Aircraft Corporation in 1960.
British and Russian designers had proposed widebody aircraft similar in configuration to the Vickers VC10 and Douglas DC-9, but with a widebody fuselage.
The station is home to Air Transport, Air-to-Air refuelling and Military Parachuting, with aircraft operating from the station including the Hercules, C-17 Globemaster, TriStar and VC10.
In mid-February 1965, the agreement with Swissair ended and Convair 990A services were discontinued, to be replaced by the Vickers VC10.
* Vickers VC10 with No. 10 Squadron RAF
The rationalisation of the VC10 force led to the withdrawal of No. 101 Squadron's K. 2s in 2003, with the C. 1 ( K ) aircraft transferred over.
VC10 and British
Tristar and VC10 tankers refuelled British and US Navy aircraft.
* March 29 – British Airways makes its last Vickers VC10 flight.
In recent times it has been announced that the VC10 VIP role has been phased out, VIP transport now carried out by chartered British Airways 767s and the RAF BAe 146 fleet.
* A fifth plane, BOAC Flight 775, a Vickers VC10 coming from Bahrain, was hijacked on September 9 by a PFLP sympathizer and brought to Dawson's Field in order to pressure the British to free Khaled.
* Vickers VC10 British airliner
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