Oh sorry Paxboy but I did join two years earlier, late May 1963. As I said before it was Singapore to London on a Britannia. In fact the first leg was aborted due to the outer starboard engine going tech. We returned to Singapore and BOAC put us up in the Raffles Hotel which in those days was incredibly colonial in attitude towards airline passengers, very deferential indeed, even to an eleven year old boy. Three days later off we went again and I got my JJC wings. It's ridiculous but I still feel "the romance" of it all.
Lucky you going on a VC10. Never flew on one and my own fault really. I could have gone LHR to Brunei in 1978 on one but didn't. I was suckered into the SIA advertising of the day (you know the story, young man, pictures of pretty girls in advertising, to say nothing of the opportunity to visit the 747 flight deck at night over Turkey) so I never got the chance to go one.