Guess these old girls count as quasi-historics now…
Up at 5:30 this morning destination Coltishall. The first VC-10 was due in at 6:40, but was 25 minutes late. The second was due at 8:40 but was 5 minutes early!
The VC-10s were dropping off personnel who’d been at Nellis for this year’s Red Flag exercise.
By: turbo_NZ - 23rd April 2005 at 06:03
Beautiful jet, beautiful pics !! 🙂
Thanks
TNZ
By: danohagan - 22nd April 2005 at 21:26
Must be a tight squeeze on those taxiways!
It didn’t look too bad, but to be honest I thought they’d need to backtrack down the runway and turn off at the midpoint, but they managed to squeeze down the taxiway.
By: Firebird - 22nd April 2005 at 21:22
how much longer with these wonderful old birds be in services for ?
There has been an entertaining thread over on pprune in the last few days about the wonderful Vickers Funbus.
Someone ‘in the know’ posted that BAe have life extended the fleet to 2011. But Rolls Royce don’t want to know when it comes to the Conway’s, and as of last month the fleet had 6 spare Conways, but they’ve all been used up in the last 3 weeks and in his words ‘now we’re stuffed’…… 😮
There has been one (XR808) stranded out in the Far East for a while with all sorts of problems. 🙁
By: Slipstream - 22nd April 2005 at 19:49
I believe they are due to be replaced by Airbus tankers in 2009.
By: EN830 - 22nd April 2005 at 17:14
Great Pictures, how much longer with these wonderful old birds be in services for ?
I can remember seeing the world backwards in 1978. I was in the ATC and on camp at Lyneham. We were bused across to Brize for a couple of trips in VC10’s, I managed two and three in C130’s, a total of about 18 hours in one week’s camp.
By: Lamps - 22nd April 2005 at 16:23
Superb pictures, the VC-10’s sure look great
By: Mpacha - 22nd April 2005 at 15:28
Thanks Dan,
I did wonder when I saw the first one fly over Norwich. Nice day for it! 😀 (For a bloody change!)
By: danohagan - 22nd April 2005 at 15:28
300D + 100-400 Cosina lens. Lens is a budget option, but am enjoying it immensely!
By: andrewman - 22nd April 2005 at 15:27
Nice photos, what’s you new camera ?
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