Queen of the Skies by Ivan Berryman. (AP) SIG43 The Queens Bays engage enemy

The Queens Bays engage enemy foot and horse outside Luknow

know the dangers of these hotly contested skies over Berlin only too well

Following the successful attack on the Mohne dam on the night of 16th/17th May 1943

Realising the threat to the German defences

Queen of the Skies by Ivan Berryman. (AP) SIG43 The Queens Bays engage enemyDHM6532AP. Queen of the Skies by Ivan Berryman. Designed originally by Vickers Armstrongs (Aircraft) Ltd, the prototype VC. 10 took to the air for the first time from Brooklands, near Weybridge, in Surrey in 1962. One of only a few airliners ever to feature the tail 'quad' engine arrangement, the VC. 10 became the mainstay of British Overseas Airways Corporation's operations worldwide, the type continuing to serve when Britain's major airlines merged