A Misguided Beauty? - Vickers VC10

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Often considered one of the most beautiful jet airliners ever to grace the skies, the Vickers VC10 was a machine built to outshine the Boeing 707 and Douglas DC-8 through performance, technological wizardry and comfort, all factors that the VC10, in the fullness of time, would demonstrate in spades when compared to its American rivals.

Sadly, the Vickers VC10 had been built as a case specific proposition for British international flag airline BOAC, in that it was tailor made for the Empire Routes to Africa and Asia, and while it performed spectacularly in all roles handed to it, its exceptional maintenance and operational costs meant that even BOAC didn't want the VC10 until they were forced to acquire a fleet at the behest of the government, while the squabbling of the flag carrier and the British parliament ultimately drove away a majority of prospective buyers, leading to one of the worst commercial aviation failures in history.

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References:
- Key Aero (and their respective references)
- VC10.net (and their respective references)
- Wikipedia (and its respective references)