Originally Posted by
D120A
You were lucky, G-ALHI! I was a passenger on the inaugural Hong Kong to London (G-ARVF) on 29 September 1964. Not only no silk tie, not even the commemorative certificate for which I carefully filled in the card and which never subsequently arrived.
My commemorative certificate, which is somewhere in a box, showed the VC10 in the original B.O.A.C. scheme, and was signed by Captain Atkinson, who was in command. 'VI was in the new 'Golden Speedbird' scheme, which had been a fairly closely guarded secret, and first sight of it on the apron at Ikeja was quite a surprise. By the time I started working for BOAC in 1966, the window cheatline scheme had been modified.