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15th Jun 2009, 10:52

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A wonderful aeroplane. A spotting colleague once described the noise emitted as "The Sound of British Tin". GAPEF (Merpati) did about 2 weeks of circuits at 'NX in the early '70s. Every 7 minutes this fabulous noise was heard over our school. Also, memories of them on Amber One East reporting to Preston at Lichfield East prior to calling London Airways on 135.25 en-route Daventry, using the unmistakably, 'gravelly' Vanguard radio.

Sadly, I never flew on a 'VC9', but managed the '8 and '10. The nose is slightly VC10 like.
Best wishes to all who designed, built and flew them.
We may not be very good at producing commercial successes in aviation here in the UK, but, hell, we are world leaders in producing classic airliners!
Thanks for some great pictures!

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