Im sure I'll win very few friends for dragging up a subject that I imagine has been flogged to death many times before on here.... BOAC and their outrageous behaviour over the procurement, development, configurations and running costs of the VC10.... which actually turned out to superior in many ways to their "preferred" 707s
Although most of you will probably know about it a lot better than I do, for those who dont there is a nice little summary of the whole affair in "Empire of the Clouds" by James Hamilton Paterson (a damn good read, by the way).