The Tomohawk Kid Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tomohawk Kid Posted January 25, 2020 Author Share Posted January 25, 2020 (edited) Enjoy. Tommo. Edited January 25, 2020 by The Tomohawk Kid 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bzn20 Posted January 25, 2020 Share Posted January 25, 2020 Vid is a Super VC10 I know the son of the photographer that did most of these brochures and Marlene Dietrich . Shoot was in a London studio . The tension of her turning up with an attitude and reputation of her being a diva etc. was soon forgotten . She arrived with her staff, BOAC execs etc. The photog explained what he wanted her to do … Sit in the seat here and recline it ,stretch your legs forward . She gets in the seat ,it's already moving and reclines …. The whole lot goes over backwards ,she's a heap half in the seat and pile of books that have raised the seat feet off the ground ! The onlookers are terrified . Miss Dietrich ! Are you alright ? She's laying there laughing her head off . All was well and the shoot continued . I have a pre-publication shot of her in the seat on books with a white sheet over those ( was photoshopped out for printing obviously ) Also in shot is a bloke holding the back of the seat . You can't sit in a PAX seat that isn't fitted to Seat Rail/Track unless it's the centre seat on a triple or outboard seat on a double , it's unbalanced . If you want a copy of the unpublished photo let me have your email . I have several others too . BOAC cartoons from papers and BOAC Review about Ms Dietrich's advert . One of those above , "Our Flighty Birds" has used the prototype as it was on it's 1st flight and touched up in the 1965 BOAC scheme . The VC10 Economy Class seat ad was a pull out in a Flight magazine , bought the mag on ebay for £2 ,making sure the ad was still attached ! 1st was ad . Bit of weirdness with the later mark Super Beaver Tails , like spikes . I got the 25th BOAC Anniversary special the day it came out ,also got the previous years ( April/May 1964 ) VC10 service entry special . I had no idea I would be working on VC10s 6/7 years later , none at all . Great collection of VC10 ads . Anyone wanting the original Dietrich ad shot ,PM me with email address . 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tomohawk Kid Posted January 26, 2020 Author Share Posted January 26, 2020 A Couple more: Tommo. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bzn20 Posted January 26, 2020 Share Posted January 26, 2020 (edited) Thanks again ! The Beautiful Putdown Ad..... Interesting shot , first thing you can see the Nose tyre chines sticking out . 2nd thing some weird shaped air splitter around both Fridge Pack intakes , (near the wing root ). Don't remember those splitters , they must have been removed sometime early on . RAF C.1ks hasn't got them ,BUA had a straight length splitter outboard of the intake ( check Sultan's photo from walkrounds below ) , pretty sure the K2s and K3s didn't have them . I checked some various BA Supers and K4 scans (ex BOAC Supers) and they're missing . Don't you just love the VC10 weirdness ? Edited January 26, 2020 by bzn20 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The Tomohawk Kid Posted January 27, 2020 Author Share Posted January 27, 2020 Tommo. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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bzn20 Posted January 28, 2020 Share Posted January 28, 2020 4 hours ago, The Tomohawk Kid said: Tommo I just put this up on a BOAC FB page . That where it came from ? Just put another belter on there waiting for page scrutinising crew to approve it . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tomohawk Kid Posted January 28, 2020 Author Share Posted January 28, 2020 Cool. Tommo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bzn20 Posted January 30, 2020 Share Posted January 30, 2020 (edited) On 1/27/2020 at 8:06 PM, The Tomohawk Kid said: Tommo. Myrtle Avenue off Hatton Road . Media make a lot of noise about that green ( no pun intended ) . We had places that were much better , perfect but security , road and building changes , Crash Gates removed etc. all gone . We had the whole perimeter road , Crash Gate op Caines Lane . Glad I don't live on that road with your front view full of anoraks all day ,every day . Otherwise ideal back when they weren't nearly all white or start with 73 or Airbus . To put that in to context . All the years I was watching then spotting at Heathrow , never been in Myrtle Avenue . I will add that I wish I was there that minute ( I want a TARDIS) , that angle looks like it's heading for the short runaway across the airfield between BEA Hangars and Central area Edited January 30, 2020 by bzn20 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Archer_VC10 Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 On 26/01/2020 at 23:17, bzn20 said: Thanks again ! The Beautiful Putdown Ad..... Interesting shot , first thing you can see the Nose tyre chines sticking out . 2nd thing some weird shaped air splitter around both Fridge Pack intakes , (near the wing root ). Don't remember those splitters , they must have been removed sometime early on . RAF C.1ks hasn't got them ,BUA had a straight length splitter outboard of the intake ( check Sultan's photo from walkrounds below ) , pretty sure the K2s and K3s didn't have them . I checked some various BA Supers and K4 scans (ex BOAC Supers) and they're missing . Don't you just love the VC10 weirdness ? The stall strips around the intake are a bit puzzling indeed. My only guess would be that this was sometime during the Super's flight test programme, as the intake shape is not right for a type 1101 wing. As you mentioned, the Supers ended up without these strips, but took some fettling to get right. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bzn20 Posted January 31, 2020 Share Posted January 31, 2020 2 hours ago, Archer_VC10 said: bit puzzling Yes Jelle . As you know the flight test phase threw up all kinds of weird things that didn't last , were redesigned , were moved other bits added . Right up to the last VC10s for East African which BOAC retro fitted their Super fleet with ( conical Beaver Tails except SGB and SGC ) Lost count of how many Beaver mods there were , we had racks full of boxes with all the different MOD states . Ghana's under wing leading edge fence is another , removed a short while after . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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