Hi From Comet's Mum!

[VC10]

Hi everybody on Luchtzak!

Just a quick intro about myself.

I am VC10, and I share many of Comet's likes, especially about Belgium (also enjoyed the spotting at Kortenberg on 7th September!) I am young at heart, though my age is a secret!!

I enjoy aviation. I have flown with loads of airlines, though my favourite was Sabena, although, like my daughter, I am a fan of VLM. I would like to fly with SN Brussels sometime.

[SN30952]

Hi everybody on Luchtzak! Just a quick intro about myself. I am VC10

HI VC10, you're my favourite...
Is that full flaps, Mum?

And who is looking from the window?
Yes, that's why the picture is big

[Comet]

Hello Mum!!

Welcome aboard Luchtzak!!

[Avro]

Welcome aboard VC-10

Chris
8)

[VC10]

Thanks for the welcomes!

I love the photo, the VC10 is a very elegant looking aircraft.

[luchtzak]

Join the club VC10 (love that nickname)

greetings,

Bart
:rock:

[meerkat]

Welcome VC-10

I have many memories of VC-10's, not all of them good! A very noisy aircraft with 4 R-R Conways strapped together makes for a hell of a screaming take off and on reverse thrust.

Taxying however had a whole noise to itself which I could hear clearly from my bedroom at home some distance from Manchester, especially when the daily New York flight arrived early in wintertime.

Not sure if this is universal but manchester spotters in the 770's used to call the VC-10 "whale". Just take a look at the tail and from some angle it can look like that of a whale just diving back beneath the water.

Getting nostalgic here, must be a sign of my advancing years.

Meerkat

[SN30952]

Spotters in the 70's used to call the VC-10 "whale". Meerkat

A winged whale on wheels? I wonder how these spotters would have called a lady I've known in the 70's?

But I am still surprised that aircraft was so silent inside...
It left the noise behind it...
Or do the miltary versions always make more noise than the civilians?
Fons

[Sabena_690]

Welcome, VC10!

As said above, I also like the nickname a lot...

Frederic

[sn26567]

Welcome VC10. Now you are the mother of Comet?

I thought that the VC10 was a daughter of the Comet...

[MD-11]

Welcome aboard luchtzak.be VC-10, please sit back, relax and enjoy your flight here on the internet
Here's a little something for you...

Greetz from MD-11

[VC10]

Thanks for all the welcomes.

I also love the drawing - thanks MD-11.

I shall post more when my daughter shows me how to use the internet!!

[sn26567]

I shall post more when my daughter shows me how to use the internet!!

Well, your first three posts were perfect. Keep posting that way!

[Comet]

I shall post more when my daughter shows me how to use the internet!!

Well, your first three posts were perfect. Keep posting that way!

My Mum will love that!

She wants me to spend the weekend showing her how to log onto the internet and Luchtzak so she can post when I'm not in!

And by the way Andre, I made those posts as my Mum was sitting at the side of me telling me what she wanted to say! Her own words, my own typing! But she will love the praise!