From: Adam 

John Beamish wrote:
> VC10 - what a *beautiful* aircraft.  Only flew it twice
> (Toronto-Heathrow; Khartom-Nairobi) and loved it.
>
> On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 02:50:34 -0500, Adam field.near the bridge">
>  wrote:
>
>> George Sherwood wrote:
>>> On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:38:40 +0000, Adam wrote:
>>
>>
>> ROFLMAO. & That from an American. The 707 required a long runway. As
>> such the UK created the VC10 which could operate off short runways.

Yup. I used to be a "BOAC junior Jet club" member flying them to
Beit Al Falaj in Oman.

Adam

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