After 47 years of service for the Royal Air Force, the VC10 took to the skies on Friday 20 September 2013 for its final Air-to-Air refuelling operational sortie. The aircraft will retire on 25 ...

Of course, things were not quite the same outside the cabin. With four Rolls-Royce Conways howling at take off, the VC10 was infamous as one of the loudest aircraft ever built, and only escaped ...