I flew on this most beautiful of all civilian aircraft when Air Malawi operated them between Blantyre and London, and also BA when they had the JNB - SEZ - HKG - TYO service. Happy memories, which were brought back not long ago when I went to Brooklands and sat in the cockpit of the Omani VC10. An ex flight engineer took us through the take off procedure so vividly I could almost smell the jet fuel and feel the thrust.