There was a fascinating aritcle back in the early seventies in either Air Pictorial of Aircraft Illustrated
Called Warlike VC 10's it has artist impressions and drawings of severval VC 10 military propsals none of which had of course been taken up......well apart from the existing transport/medevac at the time.
Of course one of the proposals was the tanker, later to become a reality.
Some of the designs compromised the VC 10's clean lines to the point of hideousness such is the miltary need
It seems from other sources at the time there was quite a strong push for the VC 10 platform being new build insted of converting existing V bombers but the fact the airframes existed seemed to be a cost saving the authorities were deterimined to make.
Garry
