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A question to the British people
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A question to the British people
While looking for some classic aircraft still in service I came across the VC-10. Does somebody know when the RAF will retire the remaining ones?
Jan
Former technician in MFG2 at ETME (home base of PANAVIA The flying computer TORNADO. sadly closed now)
Former technician in MFG2 at ETME (home base of PANAVIA The flying computer TORNADO. sadly closed now)
- nickblack423
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Jan,
The VC-10 is supposed to remain in service until the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft, (The A330-300 or KC-330) comes into service. I think this is currently 2012 if everything goes to plan.
I have had the pleasure (if you can call it that) to work on the VC-10 for most of my time in the RAF. It is a funny old aircraft I can say that, but very fun and still going stong despite its age. However the lack of spares and the amount of flights they have had to carry out under current operations is meaning that they are suffering with reliability issues and have done for the last 10 years really.
Nick
The VC-10 is supposed to remain in service until the Future Strategic Tanker Aircraft, (The A330-300 or KC-330) comes into service. I think this is currently 2012 if everything goes to plan.
I have had the pleasure (if you can call it that) to work on the VC-10 for most of my time in the RAF. It is a funny old aircraft I can say that, but very fun and still going stong despite its age. However the lack of spares and the amount of flights they have had to carry out under current operations is meaning that they are suffering with reliability issues and have done for the last 10 years really.
Nick
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Nick,
thanks for your reply. When I lived close to Hanover I sometimes saw one of those birds at the airport. I knew you spent some time at the military but did not know about the aircraft you had to do with.
@tango
There were some nice aircraft built in the UK. Just to name a few: VC-10, BAe146, HS121, DH.106, Vulcan, Harrier, etc.
thanks for your reply. When I lived close to Hanover I sometimes saw one of those birds at the airport. I knew you spent some time at the military but did not know about the aircraft you had to do with.
@tango
There were some nice aircraft built in the UK. Just to name a few: VC-10, BAe146, HS121, DH.106, Vulcan, Harrier, etc.
Jan
Former technician in MFG2 at ETME (home base of PANAVIA The flying computer TORNADO. sadly closed now)
Former technician in MFG2 at ETME (home base of PANAVIA The flying computer TORNADO. sadly closed now)
- starlifterfan
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VC-10
Remember the VC-10 coming down to Ascension Island when I was there from 1981 to 1985, when the VC-10 and Victor tankers took off the whole island shook. Seen one, off and on here at KCOF every so often years ago.
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One of the odd things about the VC10 in RAF service is that all the passenger seats face backwards (or at least they did when I last flew in one, 1995). The design was quite remarkable at the time, I'm told that the tailplane is "all flying", iaw there is no elevator in the traditional sense. The VC10 still holds the record for the fastest crossing of the Atlantic - London to New York - by a subsonic jet airliner (only Concorde has beaten it).
Starlifterfan is right, they're bloody noisy beggars, banned from quite a few civilian places because of it. The same engines powered the Victor.
Starlifterfan is right, they're bloody noisy beggars, banned from quite a few civilian places because of it. The same engines powered the Victor.
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