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Volume 37, Issue 12
1 December 1965
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Aircraft Engineering
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Review Article| December 01 1965

The VC10 for Royal Air Force Transport Command: The origins and design philosophy of the military VC10 with a description of its different roles and the engineering changes made

Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 2059-9366
Print ISSN: 0002-2667
© MCB UP Limited
1965
Aircraft Engineering (1965) 37 (12): 372–378.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb034104

A review of the background, design philosophy and control, a detail description of features of the Troop Transport, Freighter, Combination Troop/Freight and Casualty Evacuation roles, flight refuelling facility and other engineering changes, and the programme of the Royal Air Force's newest strategic jet transport the VC10 C Mk 1.

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