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Nice pics tho and they do show us what we spend our money on.
Those nice shiney cowls won't glisten in the sun will they?
Those nice shiney cowls won't glisten in the sun will they?
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Unbelievable.
Did it not occur to the senior officer who decided on this new paint scheme that it just makes the TriStar a more identifyable target. Surely the best defence against somebody taking a pot shot at an RAF TriStar would be to make the aircraft look as much like any other civil airliner as possible.
I am also reminded of the HS125 air defence grey fiasco - they changed from white to grey and then found the avionics were overheating.
Did it not occur to the senior officer who decided on this new paint scheme that it just makes the TriStar a more identifyable target. Surely the best defence against somebody taking a pot shot at an RAF TriStar would be to make the aircraft look as much like any other civil airliner as possible.
I am also reminded of the HS125 air defence grey fiasco - they changed from white to grey and then found the avionics were overheating.
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That would of course be the Tristar, that practically nobody else uses making it pretty identifiable, with a 3 foot tall ROYAL AIR FORCE, written along the side, when you are spending a fortune equipping the aircraft with DAS and the solar glint from the white paint may attract certain missiles?!?!? Oh and you are using your bright white shiney bird as a tanker in hostile environments where the white makes you stand out like the proverbial dogs....!
I cannot believe, in these days of instant mobile telecomms, that anyone still subscribes to the 'make it as much like a civil airliner as possible' theory. However I also cannot believe that they have had someone polishing the nacelles and the wings - not much solar glint off them I guess!!
That would of course be the Tristar, that practically nobody else uses making it pretty identifiable, with a 3 foot tall ROYAL AIR FORCE, written along the side, when you are spending a fortune equipping the aircraft with DAS and the solar glint from the white paint may attract certain missiles?!?!? Oh and you are using your bright white shiney bird as a tanker in hostile environments where the white makes you stand out like the proverbial dogs....!
I cannot believe, in these days of instant mobile telecomms, that anyone still subscribes to the 'make it as much like a civil airliner as possible' theory. However I also cannot believe that they have had someone polishing the nacelles and the wings - not much solar glint off them I guess!!
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Saw it blast off from Fairford on the Farm about an hour or two ago. Looks oddly splendiferous and if anything even better than the photos.
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The GW1 TriStars (based at Riyadh) were nicknamed Pinky and Perky as they resembled giant pink pigs. The humour of which was never really explained to the locals...
.......taken by my own fair hamd in Feb 1991.
.......taken by my own fair hamd in Feb 1991.
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At nav school we had a Sudanese muslim student. For some reason he did not like the Varsity and insisted that he would do better in the 'pig'. He still piggsed it and got chopped (or porked maybe).