Wasn’t the VC10 only one of two aircraft, DC-8 being the other, to allow use of reversers in the air?
I was once enjoying a trip up the front end of a BA 757, listening into a conversation where the captain was describing something called the "Bovingdon Snatch" He said that, in a B747, it meant using reverse thrust in order to lose speed and height to cut the corner into LHR.