Originally Posted by
Seat62K
"Jo90" mentioned the longest VC10 flight in his logbook. What would be the shortest? Didn't BOAC use VC10s between Aldergrove and Prestwick before dedicating a Viscount to the operation? (Does anyone have a photo of that Viscount in BOAC colours?) Weren't there Birmingham-Manchester flights, too? Was the VC10 ever used for those short hops in the Gulf (Abu Dhabi-Doha or similar)?
RAF VC10 C1s for me so we often did odd jobs.
The shortest I ever did was 9 minutes - Boscombe Down to Brize Norton. We rounded it up to 10 for the log books. Routes like Aldergrove-Liverpool or Liverpool-Teesside were not uncommon.
My longest was 9:35 - Las Vegas to Brize - not bad when the RAF C1 carried all the extra weight of the cargo door and re-inforced floor.