You better avert your eyes for these then, another mottled 10 in the guise of XV106 W I’m afraid.
Just to be clear, after a major the aircraft were flight tested at St Athan, after completion of that it was delivered to Filton, latter Manchester for paint, then delivered to Brize for service. It wouldn’t be seen in public or attend any airshows in between.

VC-10 C.1K XV106 W 3 Aug 07 by jamtey71, on Flickr

VC-10 C.1K XV106 W 3 Aug 07 by jamtey71, on Flickr

VC-10 C.1K XV106 W 3 Aug 07 by jamtey71, on Flickr

The list I have was noted by a visit to 8 sqn in the late ’70s.
According to the above mentioned book the then CO ordered all the cartoons to be removed, but after the fleet was reduced to six some of the remaining aircraft later regained a character.
WR963 was later renamed Ermintrude II, WR965 as Roaslie II, WL790 as Zebedee.

I agree with most of the comments on the clip, that looks like a flightsim, though the Vulcan itself did perform a similar manouvre.

First time I’ve seen the VX770 footage that Baz has posted, some really nasty comments on there though:(

I remember that, but was that the original panel (which went to ‘paradise’ in St Dennis, but may have returned?!) or the one out of WL756?
ISTR which ever A/C it was from that it may have been swapped over sometime from WL790 which was known as Zeberdee for a while.
Probably the most suitable name for type mind!

Hmm, firstly I’ve seen RAF aircraft in primer and paint patches way further back than 15 years ago.
Surely it’s more important that an aircraft safely completes a flight-test schedule before being painted up at another airfield and onward delivery to its home base, not paint first just to ‘look nice’ in case a member of the public spots it!
Sorry but I think this reads as a case of ‘things were much better in my day lad’!

I’m loathed to use the term warbirds, but the British Army have had classic helicopters in their historic flight (AHAF) for a while, they have used a SARO Skeeter, Sioux, Scout, and Alouette II at various times, though I don’t know what the current status of the Skeeter is.
There seems to be a couple of ex Navy Wasps airworthy (though I haven’t seen them this year) and there was an RAF Whirlwind kept flying a few years back now, I think there’s been mention here of a Wessex potentially being a flyer again.

My understanding is that anything larger and more complicated than these is financially difficult to keep going fuel, parts, and maintenance wise, this has to be justified against air show appearences (and the income from them) where once a crowd has seen say a couple service helo demonstrations that they may not readily want to see much more.

And so have I from post #18, I have even titled the image as ‘B-29 Tallboys’!

Tony, it’s all in the same font and appeared exactly like the scan did, even down to the column lengths and breaks, which would have to be tailored to the book shape and size.
EB may have got it from a manual, but I would put money on the manual getting the page added from the book or author.
I feel we’re drifting a wee bit now.