
My question is did Flying Tiger ever had planned to order the L-1011 TriStar?
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DaCubbyBearBar wrote:Was there ever even a certified L1011 freighter? I have never heard of one
PA12 wrote:Both Arrow Air and Fine Air had them, I don’t know how many. I think Millon Air did too.
FX1816 wrote:PA12 wrote:Both Arrow Air and Fine Air had them, I don’t know how many. I think Millon Air did too.
Yup Arrow Air had 3 (N306-308GB). Fine had 1 (N260FA) which I believe was the former Millon Air one. Tradewinds had 1 also (N311EA).
DaCubbyBearBar wrote:Was there ever even a certified L1011 freighter? I have never heard of one
reltney wrote:Manufactures of the era prior to the internet and great custom programs, built models for the airlines to show what the plane would look like in their colors. Eye candy. They are highly sought after for collectors. I have a few. Flying tigers and TWA L-500 (C-5), Delta propfan MD 95, Delta C&S viscount. TWA caravelle, and a few others in storage. Many were made using the Concorde in all different airline liveries.
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FWAERJ wrote:reltney wrote:Manufactures of the era prior to the internet and great custom programs, built models for the airlines to show what the plane would look like in their colors. Eye candy. They are highly sought after for collectors. I have a few. Flying tigers and TWA L-500 (C-5), Delta propfan MD 95, Delta C&S viscount. TWA caravelle, and a few others in storage. Many were made using the Concorde in all different airline liveries.
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At UA headquarters at Willis Tower, there’s an A321ceo with IAE V2500 engines in the first post-CO merger livery. UA didn’t order the A321 until the XLR, and all UA A321XLRs will be in the new “Connecting people. Uniting the world.” livery.
The NW museum in MSP, likewise, has an A330 with the 1968 livery and the original winglet design that Airbus scrapped, along with a SuperFan A340 in the bowling shoe Landor livery. The SuperFan never made it off the drawing board, and NW never operated the A340 even though NW eventually built up what at one time was the world’s largest A330 fleet.
And the AA C.R. Smith Museum has a DC-10 model in the 1964-1968 Astrojet livery introduced on the 727. No AA widebody of any kind ever had this livery.
69bug wrote:Tigers did have some 707 pax aircraft and I believe some DC-8. They were a major troop carrier during the Vietnam War so the Tristar could have been pitched to serve this market. They later stopped pax traffic for a while only to restart with Metro International (a sub brand).
The Tristar freighter conversion came much later.
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