In fact, having thought about this for a few minutes, BA managed to fly VC-10 G-ARVM into Cosford without any difficulty.
One of my old Argosy mates (the late Pete Moore) flew the last Vanguard G-APEP into just a few hundred metres of remaining runway at Brooklands. He told me that he and Garry practiced at EMA at light weights with FULL reverse and MAX braking on touch down before doing the deed.
After all, the aircraft is never going to fly again.
I have also accomplished "one way" arrivals in the past when I was in the RAF so I don't understand the problem.
Perhaps, with all the outsourcing that goes on nowadays in the military, we could ask BA to have another go?