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    The Vickers VC10 is a mid-sized, narrow-body long-range British jet airliner designed and built by Vickers-Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd and first flown at...
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    (1949), Avro Jetliner (1949), Boeing 707 (1954), Douglas DC-8 (1958), Vickers VC10 (1962), and experimental Tupolev Tu-110 (1957)), it was the first such...
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    Nigeria Airways Flight 825 (category Accidents and incidents involving the Vickers VC10)
    On 20 November 1969, Nigeria Airways Flight 825, a Vickers VC10 aircraft, crashed while on approach to Lagos International Airport in Lagos, Nigeria killing...
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  • Vickers-Armstrongs Limited was a British engineering conglomerate formed by the merger of the assets of Vickers Limited and Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth...
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  • 45 Solent (1946–50) Vickers VC10 & Super VC10 (1964-1974) Vickers Viking (1946–47) Vickers Warwick - one aircraft (1944–45) Vickers Wellington (1942–43)...
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    Dawson's Field hijackings (category Accidents and incidents involving the Vickers VC10)
    Jordanian airstrip. On 9 September, a fifth aircraft, BOAC Flight 775, a Vickers VC10 coming from Bahrain, was hijacked by a PFLP sympathizer and taken to...
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    new Vickers VC10 C.1. Fourteen VC10 C.1s were delivered to 10 Squadron between 1966 and 1967. The C.1 was a variant of the civil 'Standard VC10' fitted...
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  • Havilland Comet Douglas DC-3 Douglas DC-4 Sud Aviation SE 210 Caravelle Vickers VC10 Vickers Viscount Middle East Airlines - Air Liban firmed up its order for...
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    The Conway engine was used on versions of the Handley Page Victor, Vickers VC10, Boeing 707-420 and Douglas DC-8-40. The name "Conway" is the English...
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    Tupolev Tu-154 trijets; and the paired multi-engined Ilyushin Il-62, and Vickers VC10. The world-renowned supersonic Concorde first flew in 1969 but proved...
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