VC10: Icon of the Skies: BOAC, Boeing and a Jet Age Battle

by Lance Cole

Other books have charted the VC10 in airline life, but this book blends that story with a well-researched tale of corporate and political power play. It asks; just what lay behind the sales failure of the VC1O?

Politics played an important part of course, as did BOAC's tactics, and a 'who dunnit' cast of politico-corporate events and machinations at the highest level of society during the dying days of Empire in 1960s Britain. Key players in...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473875323
• ISBN13: 9781473875326
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: Pen and Sword Aviation
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"