"Spiv" wrote:
"Brett" wrote in message
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The USA did give tasters to many buyers.

True. OTOH at least one of the lost Comets was on some kind of round
the
world publicity stunt. Same difference.

Boeing tasters were financial. The VC10 was a
superior plane to the 707 and it did not sell well either.

Vickers designed an aircraft to the questionable
requirements of a single customer.

It wasn't the requirements, it was the timing.

It was the requirements! It didn't help that it got stuck with a low bypass
(basically due to the Victor's engine configuration) Conway.

When the VC10 appeared on
the market it's competitors had already been in service for six and four
years and ironically the restricted 'hot and high' runways of Africa and
the
Middle East for which the Standard VC10 had specifically been developed

As I said "questionable requirements of a single customer"

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