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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Ilyushin Il-62 (section Similarities to VC10)
(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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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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airline lost three Comet 4C's, two Caravelles, a Boeing 707, the Vickers VC10, and the Vickers Viscount - MEA restarted by acquiring a Convair 990A from American...
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No. 10 Squadron RAF (section Vickers VC10 (1966–2005))
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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Vickers and are in preservation. "60th Anniversary of Valiant's First Flight." Royal Air Force Museum, 17 May 2011. "Thunder & Lightnings - Vickers Valiant...
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VC10 or VC-10 may refer to: Vickers VC10, a British jet airliner VC-10 Challengers, a former United States Navy aircraft squadron Korg VC-10, an analogue...
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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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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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was Vickers' last purpose-built military aircraft. It was followed by the Vanguard, a passenger turboprop designed in 1959, and the Vickers VC10, a jet...
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