My first productive tour as a very junior engineering officer was at Brize Norton Line Servicing Squadron - working on Belfasts and VC10s. The latter were so new that we found the reason No2 Doppler was having regular problems was that the 'earth' bonding to frame didn't work because of paint! I was very proud to be working on them.
Over 40 years ago.
Sad to see them being scrapped - but it's inevitable, of course.