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Old 21st Sep 2005, 20:49
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Old 21st Sep 2005, 20:52
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This belongs in Spotters Corner and the photos need to be reduced in size (I can't believe I'm writing this.! Hey ho, I must be bored)
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Old 21st Sep 2005, 21:00
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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?
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Old 21st Sep 2005, 21:01
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Good god! They ALMOST look military now - unlike their crews!

I see they still can't be bothered painting the wings or nacelles though.

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Old 21st Sep 2005, 21:21
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Nice and shiney, ready to sell to any museum. Go on, name yer price!
 
Old 21st Sep 2005, 21:36
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I'd prefer it if they spent the money on trying to fix the damn things rather than making them look pretty.
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Old 22nd Sep 2005, 13:06
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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.
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Old 22nd Sep 2005, 16:19
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I've got to know.
Does the new scheme make it turn up on time to bring you home?








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Old 22nd Sep 2005, 16:34
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Like it ,yes, a posting to Davis Montham, AZ would be nice.

Or not ,Tristar, waste of money, just hiding a tatty airframe and a cheap way of securing a million loose rivets.
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Old 22nd Sep 2005, 17:05
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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!!
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Old 22nd Sep 2005, 17:14
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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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Old 22nd Sep 2005, 18:22
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The wings were left in their natural state when (at least one) got a pink coat during GW1. Apparently it was a case of "Lockheed says Nooooo!"
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Old 22nd Sep 2005, 19:00
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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.
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.......taken by my own fair hamd in Feb 1991.
Pun intended, Beags?
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Old 22nd Sep 2005, 19:35
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Nope - I porked up the spelling!
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Old 23rd Sep 2005, 19:28
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Is that an ex BA craft?

I like any tristar. I don't know why.
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Old 23rd Sep 2005, 19:53
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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).
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Old 23rd Sep 2005, 20:08
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'Pink Pig' ZD949 was once BA's TriStar 500G-BFCB.

The TriStar in John Major Grey (ZD951) was G-BFCD in BA service.
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