It had been opened by HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, a few years before but would, a few years later, be replaced by a completely new terminal on the far side of the runway which stretched in front of me from right to left, pointing towards the rounded lump of Ol Donya Sabuk, a lonely hill protruding on its own from the plains to the northeast. If those same clouds had been absent, as would be the case later in the day just before sunset, when the daytime convective heating of the land would subside, I would have been able to catch a final glimpse of Kilimanjaro’s snowy summit, some ninety miles or so to the south-east.The air temperature was about 26☌ as I turned for the final time and waved a sad farewell to my family whom I could see on the outside waving base of the terminal building. The brilliant blue sky was dotted with snow-white, puffy, cumulus clouds that stretched as far as the eye could see across the wide open savannah of the Athi Plains. "Sadly I walked across the apron of Nairobi’s Embakasi Airport towards a British United Airways (BUA) VC10, parked in the Kenya sunshine, one afternoon in January 1966. Richard King on the left, walking towards a BUA VC10 in Nairobi, January 1966. He has kindly allowed me to reproduce his story here. On the 50th anniversary of the first flight of the VC10 prototype, Captain Richard King was invited by The Brooklands Museum to talk about his experiences with the VC10, which included the last ever landing of A4O-AB at the museum in 1987. The first and last VC10 flight of Captain Richard King The Royal Flight of Oman VC10 A4O-AB, ex G-ASIX Note: Remove the last section from the e-mail address before
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