Originally Posted by
browndhc2
Thank you for the additional information brakedwell, sounds an interesting trip. I seem to recall reading an article in "Flight" about the Boscombe Down Britannia undertaking a North Pole navex to test various bits of Navigation kit that were temporally installed in the cabin.
Sounds like the yearly 'Aries' polar flights. A bit of thread drift... but see here for a VC10 version of that flight:
https://www.vc10.net/Memories/everyt...html#NorthPole
The VC10s of 10 Squadron carried out these flights from 1984 to 1989, the Boscombe Down Britannia carried out these flights before 1984, the Boscombe Down Comet took over the duty after 1989.