L1011 that I never imagined with this livery

[niclong81]

I never thought that Air India had in its fleet, the legendary L1011!



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I hope this picture can be a surprise for you too and inspiration for our talented repainters of HJG

Goodbye and thanks

Niclong81

[Klaus Hullermann]

Nice photo Niclong81. But this Tristar is a 500-series (the long-range short-body Tristar) and here at HJG you only get the medium-range long-body Tristars.

So this means, that this livery would be a fictional livery for the HJG-Tristars and -normally- HJG doesn't allow fictional liveries.

Klaus

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

ONCE AGAIN .... and as I mentioned within the following previous L1011 related thread ....
tonymadgehjg.proboards.com/thread/6838/bwia-1011

No L1011-500 subjects can be represented by HJG at present due to unavailability of the necessary/correct 3D/visual model .... as outlined within my above-linked earlier posting ....

The L1011-500 is "quite a different bird" than those represented per the original L1011-1 through -250 series aircraft which are currently represented by HJG using the VL 3D/visual model.


FYI .... and just to satisfy curiosity .... because this one is quite an interesting subject ....


AIR INDIA operated L1011-500 (V2-LEK C/N # 193H-1248) on lease from AIR INDIA from CARIBJET between December 16th 1995 and June 1996. This particular aircraft was orinally built for/ordered by AIR CANADA, but, not taken up by the airline. It was, instead, dellivered to ALIA ROYAL JORDANIAN AIRLINES (JY-AGJ "Princess Zeim") on June 3rd 1985 .... and then traded/operated or otherwise moved as follows ....


Sold to INDOSUEZ AIR FINANCE and leased back to ALIA ROYAL JORDANIAN AIRLINES (JY-AGJ "Princess Zeim") - December 15th 1986.

Leased per INDOSUEZ AIR FINANCE to TAP AIR POTUGAL (CS-TEG "Eca De Queiroz") - January 23rd 1989.

Sold to CARIBJET - date unknown.

Leased per CARIBJET to AIR INDIA (V2-LEK) - December 16th 1995.

Returned to CARIBJET (V2-LEK) and stored at Cambridge Airport/UK - June 1996.

Re-registered to BWIA WEST INDIES AIRWAYS (9Y-BWC) - but not taken up

Acquired by APOLLO RESOR AB (SE-DVI) and ferried to Lisbon for maintenance - March 2nd 1998.

Ferried to Stockholm/Arlanda - March 17th 1998.

Sold to FINANS SKANDIC (SE-DVI) - March 19th 1998

Lease per FINANS SKANDIC to NOVAIR (SE-DVI) - March 19th 1998

Sold to AIR LUXOR and leased back to NOVAIR (SE-DVI) - November 12th 1999.

Operated per NOVAIR for AIR AFRIQUE (SE-DVI) - February 14th 2000 until March 8th 2000.

Operated per NOVAIR for AIR ALGERIE (SE-DVI) - March 20th 2000 until April 12th 2000.

Returned to AIR LUXOR (CS-TMP) - July 17th 2000.

Transferred to LUZAIR (CS-TMP) - January 24th 2004.

Withdrawn from service at Lisbon/Portugal October 2008 .... then stored at King Hussein Airport/Jordan from November 15th 2008.


Mark C
AKL/NZ

[niclong81]

I'm sorry that I open a post for a model airplane is not available in your wonderful collection
...I never imagined that there was a 500 version of the L1011.
...but this error makes me realize how great it is to be part of this forum where I never stop learning new things !!

Niclong81

[Klaus Hullermann]

Here are some items from where you can see if the 'captured' Tristar is a 500-series or one of the older variants (which FS-pentants HJG offers):

- 500-series: shorter fuselage, 3 doors per fuselage-side, 'Frisbee-Fairing' in front of engine #2 (the one in the tail)
- older Tristars: long fuselage, 4 doors per fuselage-side, NO 'Frisbee-Fairing' in front of engine #2 (the one in the tail)

I hope I could give you some visual 'hints' of how to keeping the two different Tristars apart. Maybe this might help not to ask for a repaint for a Tristar-variant HJG don't offer.

EDIT: Thanks to Bill, I changed my description of the fairing in front of engine #2 to its correct name. Thanks Bill for this detail.

Klaus

[za0901]

My comment won't help anything as far as HJG is concerned, But in real life there were some non-500 series that had the splitter installed. I remember asking a mechanic that worked for TWA about the topic one time and he stated that they had installed them to lower the noise level in the aft cabin.

John

[icycle]

The "Frisbee Fairing" (named after Aeronautical Engineer Lloyd Frisbee), was standard on the -500, and retrofitted to some earlier L1011's (notably TWA & BA, but I'm sure there were others). Cut down on turbulence/noise at the #2 engine inlet. Noise was the primary reason for the addition, and improved drag was a an added bonus. About all i remember from 1 semester of aerodynamics, before I changed majors!!

Bill