Originally Posted by
Tankertrashnav
Lots of chat about this on the RAF Khormaksar thread on Military Aircrew. The first VC10 I ever saw was a BUA one at Khormaksar in 1966, when they had the trooping contract and I was so impressed. Like KelvinD I flew out and back on Britannias, but RAF, not British Eagle. I did fly out to Singapore on a British Eagle Brit the following year. Heathrow - Kuwait- Colombo - Paya Lebar - 24 hours which was long enough for me, so I sympathise with Ian16th who had to endure the Hastings!
Apparantly BOAC did use the VC10 on the Aden run in 1967 as this photograph shows. Perhaps this where the Last Post Director's Military adviser got the idea to use a BOAC VC10 in the programme.
See the following link.
Vickers VC10 Srs1101 - BOAC | Aviation Photo #1244563 | Airliners.net
Last edited by MReyn24050; 4th Oct 2017 at 12:30.