Originally Posted by
bayswater1944
The VC10 was the best ever. Still hold it in the highest regard. It had an exciting take off!
....it may have been elegant but commercially an utter disaster with only about 60 built - and some 20 of those bought new by the RAF. BOAC shamefully killed off any chance of it being sold to other airlines in any quantity by concocting a set of financial numbers that showed it was not as profitable as the 707. But the opposite was true. Shameful.