Photo no.2 is a Fokker F.27 Friendship. No idea about registration, date or location though. It appears to have the name ‘Friendship’ on its nose so it could be a demonstrator. Could this be at Farnborough as well??

Edit: A quick Google shows that Friendship PH-FKA was at Farnborough in 1966, a tug driver pushed it into a Landrover and it could not participate in the show because of the holed fuselage. It flew back to Amsterdam a few days later, without passengers.

And bingo: http://s710.photobucket.com/albums/ww110/Jetflap/John%20Read%20aviation%20photos%20-%201960s/?action=view&current=0175F27Friendship.jpg&currenttag=Farnborough This shows the PH-FKA at Farnborough in 1966, looks like the same airframe to me. Same colourscheme, faint name on the cheatline is similar to the photo above and more importantly: it carries the same droptanks. Those were definitively non-standard.

The Facebook message states that the wingtip was ‘compromised’. That doesn’t necessarily mean that they lost it.

Have a look at some of Ronnie’s artwork, he does very impressive 3D models: http://digitalaviationart.com/skyraider3d/index.htm. That might answer your question 😉

If you’re after a decent book about the VC10 for your bookshelves, see here for an interesting suggestion: http://www.pprune.org/aviation-history-nostalgia/480051-vc10-publication.html

I hope this is within forum guidelines re: advertising. I think it is as this is not a commercial venture, just an attempt at getting a good book republished.

If this catches on the scrapyards can start charging admission prices for looking at the ‘art’ on view there. 😉

Interesting to see the immense nose down pitch of the fuselage at high speed. Nice video!

I was thinking what it was that bugged me about the image as it didn’t quite appear real. I’ve figured it out: it is sharp throughout the image. With the aircraft travelling at quite a speed the hangar or the aircraft should be out of focus as you’ll either follow the aircraft with your camera, blurring the surrounding, or the other way around which leaves you with a blurred aircraft. Cameras and film speeds of those days didn’t produce the shutter speeds necessary to freeze the whole image.