You’d have to check the ‘Dutch Spitfires vol 2’ book but mine is currently in storage. I did find a mention that they were modified at Ypenburg but that’s not much use I guess.

Edit: I found this small photo in ’75 jaar vliegveld Texel’, a book published by the airport to commemorate their 75th anniversary. Credit as in brackets below. ‘The remains of Spitfires NFN and NFP are removed from Texel in 1957’.

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There is the Concorde with a restaurant inside at Flugausstellung Junior, Hermeskeil Germany…
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http://www.flugausstellung.de/

Pic 018 and 019 have a feel of French seaside to them(supported by the text on the buildings in 019), but I cannot identify the location.

Pic 068 has already been identified as Kopenhagen, pic 066 is also somewhere in Denmark based on the writing on the mine.

Pic 064 is the fountain in front of Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark. The photo was taken looking towards the entrance, with the castle behind the photographer. Unfortunately I can only find photos that show the fountain from the opposite side with the castle instead of the entrance gate behind it but I’m 99% sure it is here:
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Wonderful photos by the way!

Is this the same girl here at Biggin Hill in 2010?

The one in that video is XV106 ‘W’, VC10 C1K. That airframe has been cut up at Bruntingthorpe sometime around August 2013. The one at Dunsfold is ZA150, a VC10 K3.

G-ORDY has found the logbook already. I was going to dig through my collection for the book that Lindbergh wrote himself as I distinctly remember that he describes giving rides to several people both before and after his NY-Paris flight. The fuel tank was not removed for these flights. IIRC they perched behind the pilot but there was no seat there so it must have been a tad uncomfortable. And let’s not talk about weight and balance issues… 😀

Edited to add: all the flights where he carried others were of fairly short duration, 10 to 15 minutes at most. That ties in with the fact that there was no real accommodation for passengers.

On a related note, next Sunday 17th November Bruntingthorpe will be open for visitors and they will line up 29 Cold War jets on the runway, including the three complete VC10s left: XR808, ZA147 and ZD241. Normal admission prices apply.

The Viking for example at Brooklands is on loan from the RAFM.

That story has been around for a while, but the Viking was owned by BA who had loaned it to the RAFM. It was then loaned to Brooklands but in 2005 BA donated the aircraft so it is now fully Brooklands-owned.

Just to confuse matters it was realised late in the day that, bizarrely, Boeing may have had a claim on G-ARVM as it and three other Standard VC10s (scrapped at Heathrow in 1976, VB, VE, VH) were PEX with Boeing for new 747s.

As I understand it, only VB, VE and VH were involved in the exchange deal with Boeing. VM flew on until 1979 while the other three were taken out of service in 1974 and scrapped two years later. Surely if Boeing had a claim on VM it would have shown up on the registration somewhere, VM has always been registered to BOAC or BA until it was flown to Cosford.