Those are DC-4s, by the way – note the round fuselage windows. They are listed here: http://www.oldprops.ukhome.net/DC4%20Census.htm

This one is quite good but the information is not live – usually it will be available by the next day.

http://www.antonakis.co.uk/acars.php?page=request

The runway at DX hasn’t been long enought since the M11 was built. Even something as samll as the Sea Vixen is not really happy there now.
Believe it or not, now that the Tu-144 and Concorde are out of airliner service there would still be no airliner faster if they put the 10 back into airline service. IIRC a cruise speed of something like M 0.89 against about 0.82 for the fastest of the modern stuff.

I think it may be a bit of an urban myth that nothing else could touch the VC10 for speed. As I understand it the first widebody jets, and indeed earlier US jet transports like the 707, were actually designed to be able to cruise faster than they usually did in service. The slower speeds generally adopted from the 1970s on were for fuel economy reasons rather than performance limitations. I certainly recall hearing 747s on the North Atlantic reporting cruise speeds at M=0.86 and even on one occasion I think 0.88. In my 1992 edition of “Flying the Big Jets”, the author (Stanley Stewart, at the time a BA B747 captain) states that the 747’s maximum speed is 0.90 Mach. If this is its certified maximum, I assume there is also some margin above this which it could actually attain.

Presumably this is at Amman-Queen Alia, where it has been parked for many years now.

OK… I’m being picky here, but it was a take-off crash, not a crash landing and it was Foxtrot Alpha, not Echo Alpha. To quote myself…

In a strange echo of life imitating art, during the afternoon of July 25th, the Institut Geographique National B-17 F-BEFA Chateau de Vernieuil – aka Baby Ruth – started its take-off run along runway 21 in the hands of pilot Jean Gattegno when, as the speed began to build up, the aircraft suddenly began to pull to the right.

Sorry, but it was definitely F-BEEA and the name is spelt “Château de Verneuil”. F-BEFA was an Air France DC-3!

http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1137645/
http://www.abpic.co.uk/photo/1111750/

Or ask the Irish air corps, I seem to remember they lost a door last year….but I think it was a helicopter.

You are thinking of an RAF Merlin which lost a door at an airshow in Galway.;)

I reckon both of the four-engined machines are An-12s – layout and size are the same. The fact that one of them has a lot of blue may disguise the fact that they are the same type!

This is from Waddington in 1981:

http://www.airliners.net/photo/UK—Air/Avro-698-Vulcan/1019403/L/