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Vickers Voyage (Unisex T-Shirt)

Vickers Voyage (Unisex T-Shirt)

£34.97 GBP
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The Vickers VC-10 is one of the great achievements of the British jet age.

Designed to BOAC's demanding "hot and high" specification for African routes, it delivered short-field performance no American rival could match, and its four rear-mounted Rolls-Royce Conway engines gave passengers a cabin quiet enough to inspire the "Try a little VC-Tenderness" advertising campaign.

In March 1979 a Super VC-10 flew New York to Prestwick in 5 hours 1 minute, a subsonic transatlantic record that stood for 41 years until Storm Ciara pushed a British Airways 747 past it in 2020. Beyond civil service the type flew as an RAF strategic transport and air-to-air tanker until 2013, giving the design a 48-year military career.

 A piece for enthusiasts who followed the type from Brooklands to Brize Norton and recognise it as the final fanfare of Britain's golden age of airliner design.

Aircraft quick facts

  • Aircraft: Vickers VC-10 (Types 1101, 1151 Super, 1106 C.1, K.2/K.3/K.4)
  • Type: Long-range jet airliner / RAF strategic transport and tanker
  • First flight: 29 June 1962 (G-ARTA, from Brooklands)
  • Entered service: 29 April 1964 (BOAC, London–Lagos)
  • RAF service: 1965 to 20 September 2013
  • Top speed: Mach 0.86 (around 580 mph / 933 km/h)
  • Engines: 4 × Rolls-Royce Conway Rco.42/43 turbofans
  • Production: 54 airframes built
  • Notable record: Fastest subsonic transatlantic airliner crossing (5 hrs 1 min, held 1979–2020)
  • Preserved examples: Brooklands, Duxford, RAF Museum Cosford, Bruntingthorpe

The Vickers VC-10 is one of the great achievements of the British jet age.

Designed to BOAC's demanding "hot and high" specification for African routes, it delivered short-field performance no American rival could match, and its four rear-mounted Rolls-Royce Conway engines gave passengers a cabin quiet enough to inspire the "Try a little VC-Tenderness" advertising campaign.

In March 1979 a Super VC-10 flew New York to Prestwick in 5 hours 1 minute, a subsonic transatlantic record that stood for 41 years until Storm Ciara pushed a British Airways 747 past it in 2020. Beyond civil service the type flew as an RAF strategic transport and air-to-air tanker until 2013, giving the design a 48-year military career.

 A piece for enthusiasts who followed the type from Brooklands to Brize Norton and recognise it as the final fanfare of Britain's golden age of airliner design.

Aircraft quick facts

  • Aircraft: Vickers VC-10 (Types 1101, 1151 Super, 1106 C.1, K.2/K.3/K.4)
  • Type: Long-range jet airliner / RAF strategic transport and tanker
  • First flight: 29 June 1962 (G-ARTA, from Brooklands)
  • Entered service: 29 April 1964 (BOAC, London–Lagos)
  • RAF service: 1965 to 20 September 2013
  • Top speed: Mach 0.86 (around 580 mph / 933 km/h)
  • Engines: 4 × Rolls-Royce Conway Rco.42/43 turbofans
  • Production: 54 airframes built
  • Notable record: Fastest subsonic transatlantic airliner crossing (5 hrs 1 min, held 1979–2020)
  • Preserved examples: Brooklands, Duxford, RAF Museum Cosford, Bruntingthorpe
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