Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Chapter 1 Icon of the Skies: The VC10 Legend

Chapter 2 Empires in the Sky: From Comet to V1000

Chapter 3 An Imperial Affair: Biplanes to Big Flying Boats

Chapter 4 A Great Corporation: BOAC and the Politics of Power

Chapter 5 Vanjet: Design for the Future – Valiant to VC Series

Chapter 6 Highly Detailed Reality: VC10 and the Realisation of a Dream

Chapter 7 BOAC, Parliament and Planes: Politics, Passengers, Guthrie, and the VC10 affair

Chapter 8 Boeing’s Big Beast: Deltas, B-52s and Stratotanker to Stratoliner

Chapter 9 VC10 Beyond BOAC: Other Operators

Chapter 10 Full Flap: What Might Have Been and What Was

Notes

Bibliography & Sources

Appendix 1