Recall with very, very fond memories the Vicky10 "sweepers" that came through Gan at Xmas. Outstanding hospitality and even an Xmas tree - with lights.

If anybody here was crew on a "sweeper" in 72/73 may I extend a belated and heartfelt thank you for your flying party. Oh, and many, many thanks to the Q's . . .ahh the Q's. . . :E

Just off a Major and now due for retirement to be used as spares? Ah yes, that's the good old MOD, just as I remember it.

By the way, how many hours has it done? A 10 year old B767 typically has around 45,000 or 10,000 cycles on it, so in civilian life, forty years service would come out at around 180,000 or 40,000 cycles. :ok:

BTW, they were referred to as the Vicar's Knickers in the seventies, when they were still shiny [ I say, are you a REAL Squadron Leader or just a VC10 pilot? :E ]

The real question about those Good Old Days is "Who got the Marine Bar's 'trophy' collection when Gan closed?"

Spent 4 weeks in Singapore on the VC10 a few years back - part of the Five Nations Pacific Defence Agreement annual exercise. managed to get back there last week on my current type - for 4 hours. Buggrit.

Hobie

Nice toy for your canteeen

Unfortunately your Conway can,t be from a Funbus, cos, it looks like its got a Hush Kit bolted on, (The fan shapes at the left end under the telly)

and the one thing a VC10 is not.....................quiet on Take off

BT

VC10 FLEET BRIZE
 

The C1KS have clocked around 27.000hrs
The K3/K4S Ex civvie have around 60.000hrs.
We are not welcome at airshows this year as officially we are told the organisers want something more punchy[new] cluttering up thier pan. We know that Buffoon and his ilk would rather the public did not see a 21s centuary airforce flying museum relics.
That has put paid to a huge global fan base seeing a VC10 in its twilight years. Come to think of it that means the Tonkas, Trimotors, Nimrods, Hawks, Sea Kings, Alberts and Harriers, Pumas and Chinooks wont be attending then either. C17s eat your heart out.

Well they did used to say that the female of Air Quartermaster was Air Quartermatress.....:E

BT, I have connections but the best I could do was to get a Civvy version Conway ..... it was taken off a DC8 or a 707 ..... the engine was manufactured in 1975 .... I think the Conway was also used in the Victor Bomber ? .....

:ok:

Hobie

I didn,t meam to criticise, I think anyone who tries to preserve a bit of aviation history needs a pat on the back...........good on you for your efforts.

I just wish my canteen had something better than a plastic green pot plant.

Oh by the way, the Victor B.1 had a guzzling Sapphire which was replaced in the B.2 with as you rightly say the noisy Conway

BT

27,000 you say Vicky10!

If only you could get a similar deal with Rolls Royce as the BBMF, the VC10 C1's are good for at least another 80 years then.

...and there's some twit on Aviation History and Nostalgia who claims that British built airliners are all failures. Tut, tut! Not the most beautiful airliner ever built (a close competition with the DH Comet), that's for sure.

VC10 Queen of the skies
 

How anyone could call the CV10 and DH Comet ugly need an appointment with an optician. They were a fantastic piece of British engineering for the time.
The VC10 fleet has been life extened by wasteofspace to 2011
belive it or not.
Rolls Royce really want nothing more to do with the Conways.
The MOD is considering converting the 10s into gliders with a big rubber band stretched across the runway 26 at Brize and will give enough power for a 5 min MCT.:( :(

Wow! 20011!!!

That's another 18,006 years!

XR808
 

After three and a half weeks on a 4 day trip, 808 finally recovered to home base on 26 Apr - most of the snags having been fixed in theatre by some sterling Brize engineers. It didn't help matters, after negotiating the ITCZ without incident on 8 occasions, that she was hit by lightning on finals to Brize... Last attempt by an angry god perhaps...:ooh:

Well done chaps. Now she's 100% again it must be time to take her to St Athan and scrap her?

Working Hard,

The Trident and the Convair 880 were both faster.

I hear there's another of the old dears languishing somewhat tits-up in another continent......yet again.