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I'll grab some close ups and some of the animations when i get time ..... beautiful looking aircraft.

Great Screens Marty , Long times back i was Transfixed on Air Transit 1994/5 after the release of VIP package , they were one Canadian airline that stuck with colour and a design .. right up to when every thing went to the standard boring white fuselage , lost the brown/maple gold and went fooies blueys and reds like everyone else

Which Tristar is that? Great pics. Congrats on the win too!!

000rick000 wrote:

QUOTE (000rick000 @ Jun 8 2013,3:42 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Which Tristar is that? Great pics. Congrats on the win too!!

Thanks Rick and Ian ....Rick its the captainsim model (exterior only at the moment)

Oops! I should have put to and two together... I didn't realize they were making one. Yes it is a nice looking model.

Always liked the 1011 and the DC-10, even though the DC looks a bit 'home-made', like the BN Trislander. Trouble is, in recent years what used to be glorious sound has become an annoying noise, so the great jets and turboprops have had to go ...but I can still do procedurals in Connies and the like, with nice rumbly radials

emfrat wrote:

QUOTE (emfrat @ Jun 8 2013,7:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Always liked the 1011 and the DC-10, even though the DC looks a bit 'home-made', like the BN Trislander. Trouble is, in recent years what used to be glorious sound has become an annoying noise, so the great jets and turboprops have had to go ...but I can still do procedurals in Connies and the like, with nice rumbly radials

Amazing how lucky Lockheed got there , the first real whoops with having another primary country supplying power plants .. end product a very few aircraft , the 10 equals but for the rush of competition and in service airline ground crews rushing in using all sorts of miss-managed maintaining causing the beginning of the end ..... course throw in Air New Zealand's debacle after 1979 really added to the mix ...

Now you mentioned rumbly radials .... Lockheed , maybe they should have stuck with em a little while longer ... but for airlines wanting cash ... those great old days of Jumbos and SSTs and cheap travel ........ mind you i recall it was about $330NZ one way to Sydney in 1980

[quote name='Ian Warren' date='Jun 8 2013,5:15 PM' post='83316 mind you i recall it was about $330NZ one way to Sydney in 1980 [/quote]

Hmm - didn't create much of a deterrent, did it?

emfrat wrote:

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mind you i recall it was about $330NZ one way to Sydney in 1980
Hmm - didn't create much of a deterrent, did it?

I came home after 3/4 weeks .. got sick of my buddies ...love the Beech for some reason

Ian Warren wrote:

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Jun 8 2013,7:15 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Amazing how lucky Lockheed got there , the first real whoops with having another primary country supplying power plants .. end product a very few aircraft , the 10 equals but for the rush of competition and in service airline ground crews rushing in using all sorts of miss-managed maintaining causing the beginning of the end ..... course throw in Air New Zealand's debacle after 1979 really added to the mix ...

Now you mentioned rumbly radials .... Lockheed , maybe they should have stuck with em a little while longer ... but for airlines wanting cash ... those great old days of Jumbos and SSTs and cheap travel ........ mind you i recall it was about $330NZ one way to Sydney in 1980

I love them both , The 10 and the Tristar ....

Nice, I haven't been giving the same model any attention of late after falling to tx a number of pay ware VCs over I forgot all about

The exterior does look great and your pics reinforce that

Might have to have another look

Thanks

jeansy wrote:

QUOTE (jeansy @ Jun 9 2013,11:21 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Nice, I haven't been giving the same model any attention of late after falling to tx a number of pay ware VCs over I forgot all about

The exterior does look great and your pics reinforce that

Might have to have another look

Thanks

Thanks Matt , would love to see her in RNZAF or RAAF dress