Petri Color 35 to Europe | BOAC Vickers VC-10 Wing This flight to London was on a BOAC Vickers VC-10 airliner. British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) later merged into British Airways. The Vickers VC10 is a mid-sized, narrow body, long-range British jet airliner designed and built by Vickers-Armstrongs Aircraft Ltd. It was designed to operate on long-distance routes from the shorter runways. The VC-10 still holds the record for the fastest Atlantic crossing by a non-supersonic jet airliner; call sign: Speedbird. For the whole story with all images, see Petri Color 35 to Europe | a 7 Image Story.
