If the story is true, it's an utter disgrace. Clearly, Cosford can take a VC10 easily enough and many of the museum aircraft flew in directly without any difficulty (including the BA VC10 as has been mentioned). If there is now some issue, then it's some ghastly H&S problem or insurance, or some other modern-day regulation.
What have we come to? An aircraft designed for short runways can no longer land on a short runway. The RAF Museum can only collect aircraft providing that they're small enough, and the VC10 is not worthy of preservation because it's simply too big?
Where's my passport and where's the taxi...
Last edited by WH904; 26th Jul 2013 at 07:06.