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XV108 "Lieutenant Rhodes-Moorhouse VG", one of 14 VC10 C Mk. ts delivered to the RAF in 1966-68.
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It’s probably not unreasonable to suggest that the 1960s was not a golden age for British airliners, at least in the commercial sense.
The three main projects of the era – the Trident, One Eleven and VC10 – could be described as modest successes at best; even the most produced of them, the short range One Eleven, sold in only small quantities compared to its American contemporaries in the form of the Boeing 737 and McDonnell Douglas DC-9/MD-80, which have been sold by the thousand.
Both the American types are still in full production in developed forms, while even though the odd One Eleven still emerges from the factory in Romania which has been its source for the past decade, the type reached its sales peak more than 20 years ago. Combined English and Romanian production of the OneEleven has reached about 245 (230 in the UK) of which more than 220 had been delivered by the middle of 1971.
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