Vickers/BAC VC10 · 1962 to 2013 (all marks and models) — Owners' Workshop Manual

by Keith Wilson

Insights into the design, construction, operation and maintenance of the VC10 in civil and military service

Designed in the 1950s to operate on long-distance routes, the four-jet Vickers VC10 saw service with BOAC and a number of other airlines from the 1960s to 1981. It enjoyed a further career with the RAF as a strategic transport and later as an aerial refuelling aircraft. The last VC10 K3 tanker was retired by the RAF in 2013. Keith Wilson examines the design, construction and use of the VC10, using as his centrepiece ex-RAF VC10 C1K (XR808) and VC10 K3 (ZA147) tankers at Bruntingthorpe, Leicestershire.

Contents:

• History of the VC10
• Anatomy of the VC10
• VC10 in airline service
• Royal Air Force VC10s at peace
• VC10 operations in theater
• Flying and operating the VC10
• Maintaining the "Queen of the Skies"
• Almost, but not quite - the unbuilt VC10 projects
• VC10 survivors
• Appendices

Buch, Hardcover, 21 x 27,5 cm, 160 Seiten, ca. 250 überwiegend farbige Abbildungen, englischer Text
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