I much prefer the concept of sitting at the back and being able to see everyone seated in front of me dying first. Besides the VC10 wasn’t that comfortable when climbing out as you felt yourself leaning fwd.
Memories of the Comet was being sent out to help do a compass swing at Brize on the Boscombe one, I had to tow the power set around the compass bay plugged into the running comet for about 3 hours plus.