British United VC 10

[Garry Russell]

Interesting angles

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVU2lsgS ... re=related

[DaveB]

Yup.. nice bit of film that. The dvd is equally good.. only much longer

That reminds me.. Ben was looking at the Corgi VC10 and I thought when looking at the shots, it's inner wing fences didn't look very pronounced.. if there at all. That clip shows them to be rather more noticeable

ATB

DaveB

[clavel9]

British United is the classic Standard VC10 livery in my opinion and is shown off beautifully in this old film.

[DaveB]

I like that livery too mate.. whatever it sits on The funky 70's yellow/pale blue was ok (in an odd sort of way) but certainly, the earlier version shown in that clip is my fave BUA

ATB

DaveB

[TSR2]

It is quite nice, but the best livery on a standard has to be 1964 BOAC (as per the original G-ARTA livery) on a 1103, its XX914 every time

[Garry Russell]

Indeed Ben

That early striped tail BOAC was a beauty

One thing about that BUA livery is it does not photgraph well

In real life it was very,very smart

[Fodda]

That's great footage. And I love the calm and orderly way everyone leaves the aeroplane at the end.

[clavel9]

One thing about that BUA livery is it does not photgraph well

In real life it was very,very smart

That's absolutely true - indeed it's hard to know what the exact colours were owing to image degradation, etc.

It's arguable as to whether the upswept stripes work on every aircraft, but I always thought that livery worked especially well on the Herald.