VC 10 Pilots, please.

[Chris Scott]

Whoops...

Phantom Driver,

Was hoping no one would notice my gaff about the B707 having its pitot up on the fin.

Having realised my “senior moment”, and shot in from the garden to edit it out, thought I’d got away with it. Now find that you’ve actually quoted it in your post, so there’s nothing I can do to conceal the blunder.

Actually, the “pitot” on the B707 fin is the HF antenna… [If memory serves this time, the VC10 uses its whole airframe as the HF antenna.]

Stanley Eevil’s “original” Vno/Mno figures sound right, except that we always referred to Vmo instead of Vno and Mmo instead of Mno. Subtle difference?
337kts at sea level was a bit pedestrian.