XV108 RAF Vickers VC-10 taxiing to the stand at London Heathrow

The view from Car Park 2
One of my earliest shots of an RAF VC-10, seen from the top level of Car Park 2 at Heathrow, a favourite vantage point of mine. XV108 taxies in to the stand past Iran Air and BA Boeing 707s, In the distance, BA and TWA Cargo 707s. two BA Merchantmen and a Seaboard World Boeing 747 freighter. Those were the days!

XV108 'William Rhodes-Moorehouse VC' c/n 838 - Vickers VC-10-1106 (C Mk. 1) - delivered new to RAF 10 Squadron, Brize Norton in 1968. The military version of the VC-10-1101 was a combination of the standard combi airframe with the more powerful engines and fin fuel tank of the Super VC-10, and was used for strategic transport and VIP duties.

Converted to a C1K tanker transport in 1995, the aircraft flew until 2012 - an amazing 40+ year flying history. Withdrawn and scrapped at Bruntingthorpe in 2013.

A full history of XV108 here: www.vc10.net/Airframes/cn_838__XV108.html

Visit my VC-10 gallery here - full of superb images of a perfect plane! www.flickr.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/galleries/7215770818...

One of a small number of slides taken by me in 1977-78, before I purchased my first SLR camera - a Zenith E.

You can see a random selection of my aviation photos here: flickriver.com/photos/heathrowjunkie/random/

Taken in: United Kingdom / England / London / Heathrow (show map)

Taken on: May 1, 1978

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