Flight Craft 20: Vickers VC10
Flight Craft 20: Vickers VC10 Designed and manufactured by the men who would make Concorde, the Rolls-Royce powered Vickers VC10, and its larger variant, the Super VC10, represented the ultimate in…
Specifikacia Flight Craft 20: Vickers VC10
Flight Craft 20: Vickers VC10
Designed and manufactured by the men who would make Concorde, the Rolls-Royce powered Vickers VC10, and its larger variant, the Super VC10, represented the ultimate in 1960s subsonic airliners. It incorporated advanced engineering, new aerodynamics, and design features, to produce a swept, sculpted machine easily identifiable by its high T-tail design and rear-engine configuration.The VC10 could take off in a very short distance, climb more steeply and land at slower speed than its rivals the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8. The VC10 was Britain's answer to the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8.The VC10 was a second-generation jetliner designed in the 1960s and manufactured into the 1970s.
At one stage, the Super VC10 was the biggest airliner made in Europe and the fastest in the world.On entry These were vital safety benefits in the early years of the jet age.