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Farewell VC10's (Read 626 times)

Apr 9^th, 2010 at 6:21am

EGNX Offline
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Farewell to XV109 and XV807, a pair of VC10's landing for the very last time at Bruntingthorpe in Leicestershire. Now awaiting their fate.
A sad sight indeed.

Overhead formation flyby before splitting into left and right hand circuits.

Low go around!!! Cool

Low over the trees for the final time.

XV109 coming in for its last landing.

XV807 parked and waiting

XV109 up on jacks. Farewell.

Lovely to see these birds land so close to home. Sad to know it was their last. Undecided

Luke.

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Reply #1 - Apr 9^th, 2010 at 12:38pm

C Offline
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Sad to see a couple go, although I prefer seeing 109 now going than sending 808 to Cosford. As you can see the spares recovery operation started pretty much as soon as they landed with 109 going on the jacks.

As for the low go around, as you'd have seen it was almost a low, slow flyby - brought about by a lack of up to date published airfield information I suspect.

Mind you, defence reviews permitting, hopefully we'll see the VC10s in the air for another 3-4 years yet.

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Reply #2 - Apr 9^th, 2010 at 4:48pm

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C, The documentation for Bruntingthorpe is ok and gives the required information for an unlicensed aerodrome. The captain of the first aircraft had been up to the airfield a couple of weeks ago to have a closer look at the final approach, runway and parking area. The crews planned to carry out a formation fly through, then a low approach prior to the final landings.

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Reply #3 - Apr 11^th, 2010 at 8:03am

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Very sad, but what a tremendous run these ships had!!

It's like attending the funeral of someone who lived to be 150, and was spry and active until the very end. Pretty silly to cry over that. Wink

Someone remind me of this when they catch me sniffling over the last B-52 flight... Grin

I'm just glad I'll be long dead when they retire the last airworthy DC-3, in about 100 years! Grin

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