Blimey,
Jackonicko, what a fascinating Thread this has become, particularly if you dive out into the likes of VC10.net! Any thoughts on changing the Thread title to "
The amazing VC10 Thread" or similar?!!!!!!!!
I actually started my Aviation "Maintenance" career on a VC10.
Erm, I wasn't exactly qualified to do so as I was still at school at the time. And the VC10 subjected to my "tinkering" was none other than XR809/G-AXLR which has already been mentioned above. Realising that maybe it was a tad unairworthy, a couple of small panels appeared in my bedroom as a result.
Now, in my defence, M'lud, it was on the Dump at RAF Kemble at the time looking very much like Image 26 at
C/n 829 - XR809 when I made my valiant but unsuccessful effort to clear the outstanding defects in the 700 and get her back to the Line "S", and my covert ingress/egress route to the aircraft from the fence would have helped me in the SAS - had I followed that particular Military career.
It's a fair cop I guess so I best I fess up. Later on I became slightly more productive in helping to keep the FAA and RAF in the air for 3 decades. Well, that's my opinion - other's may differ with their thoughts on that.
Ah, 1976/77 - happy days!
Cheers,
H 'n' H