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VC10: Icon of the Skies - BOAC, Boeing and a Jet Age Battle (Paperback)
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Other books have charted the VC10 in airline life, but this book
blends that story with a well-researched tale of corporate and
political power play. It asks: just what lay behind the sales
failure of the VC10? Politics played an important part of course,
as did BOAC's tactics, and a who dunnit cast of politico-corporate
events and machinations at the highest level of society during the
dying days of Empire in 1960s Britain. Key players in the story,
from Tony Benn to famous test pilot Brian Trubshaw (Concorde), are
cited and quoted. The VC10 was Europe's biggest jet airliner of its
age and regarded as the world's best looking airliner. It was safe,
fast, and designed to take off from short runways in Africa and
Asia, at the request of its main operator BOAC - the airline that
would later go on to become today's British Airways. The VC10 and
the larger Super VC10 were beloved by pilots and passengers alike
and became icons of the 1960s. They were hugely popular all over
the world; East African Airlines made its name with Super VC10s,
and so too did Freddie Laker. The RAF also made the most of its
VC10s. Yet the VC10 was eclipsed by Boeing's 707 which sold by the
hundreds, despite the fact that the 707 could not initially operate
from the runways of the Commonwealth and old British Empire routes,
as the VC10 undoubtedly could. The men of the Vickers Company who
created the VC10 would later go on to engineer Concorde and, of
course, the rest is history. But the era of the VC10 was pivotal
and, by exploring this historical period in depth and highlighting
all the various impediments that stood in the way of success for
the VC10, Lance Cole adds an important layer to our understanding
of twentieth century history.
General
Imprint: |
Pen & Sword Aviation
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Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
November 2022 |
Authors: |
Lance Cole
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Dimensions: |
234 x 156 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
256 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-399-07737-8 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-399-07737-6 |
Barcode: |
9781399077378 |
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