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Just spotted this http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ox ... e-24165590 on the BBC's website.Maybe some of you will see it. :) EricT
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Thank Eric

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Since when has the VC10 been the "funbus" ? I assumed this referred to the A330s
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No idea Chris but many years...well before the A.330 existed

I always thought it a play on Vickers Gunbus...but that I just my thinking
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Many refered to the VC10 as the funbus 'Vickers Funbus' well before the A330 was eve announced.. Tonks being one :)

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Ah, thanks for the explanation
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I just happened to have this week off, and only found out about the flypast this morning on VC10.net, so I went to see them arrive in formation for the types final landing at Brize. Truly the end of an era. :'( Was a lovely warm sunny day for it.

Just seen a report on it on BBC Oxford news.

RAF site update...http://www.raf.mod.uk/rafbrizenorton/ne ... C1DE924BDA

Just the delivery flights left, to Bruntingthorpe and Dunsfold - apparently destined for Brooklands.
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The last of the British Greats!! :( I wonder if Tonks would have liked to have flown one again before they are grounded for good?

Now what is going to happen to the VC10 simulator at Brize.....any-one know?

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I was just reading about this on the BBC. I haven't seen one for about 4 or 5 years, so I won't notice their absence.

Had I known about the flypasts, I would have biked up to Coningsby. Never mind, another wonder of British engineering disappears into the history books (and YouTube :) ).

Can't say I'm looking forward to seeing the Voyager - but I would really look forward to seeing a VC for Dave's Vic ten, then I could do my own "refuelling" sorties :welldone:


PS - oooh! Look what I found!:

http://youtu.be/NlWjq_eyBcw
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At the end of one of the BBC news films it says the final two are being to Leicester and Surrey.... so Dave is Brooklands getting another VC10?

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