Sad looking Tristar

Just seen it on a.net, ex Caledonian Tristar, now with Air Express Liberia, A8-AAA. Looks in a very sorry state.

Formerly G-BBAH

Thanks mate, we are both very lucky to have flown on such a great classic aircraft.

Here we go, both pictures at Larnaca.

Nice pictures! I don’t have any TriStar pics unfortunately (I do have lots of those ground shots from overseas airports though!!).

I did manage to find a photo of CKT’s G-BBAE on the net, which I went on from MAN-FAO and then FAO-MAN one week later.

I wish I could go on a tri-star!!!

I have a few phtos similar to that of a BY 762, EZY 737 and MYT A320. The people are annoying but you can hardly ask them to move out of the way. One old bat looked at me as if I was an ailein or something for taking a photo of the a/c!!

sad looking???
i saw 5 already cut down in pieces (air transat) 🙁 😡 :confused: 😮
and everytime my eyes cried like a river, it felt like i was the one being cut,
and hurt even more, remembering the old happy times when i was flying it, being its flight engineer was the coolest, happiest times in my life, and still the last one will be scrapped in late august (TSZ)
a sad end for the greatest airliner of all times 🙁
Fernando.

Here we go, both pictures at Larnaca.

Cool! That probably also qualifies as my most exotic flight!

Hey great stuff, I’ll post my picture of her later if you like?

I flew an ex Cathay Pacific Tristar when my A300 went tech from MAN to Larnaca in Summer 98. Was yours TF-ABU by any chance?

From memory I think it was

G-BBAH, I flew this aircraft in ’82, LHR to Malta…. My first Jet flight. I sill have the BA junior jet club book somewhere…..

I loved flying on the TriStar – the power of the third engine was immense if you were sitting towards the back of the aircraft. I flew on a few – British Airtours MAN-TFS-MAN in July 1987, Caledonian MAN-FAO-MAN in April 1996 and finally Air Atlanta Icelandic (ex-Cathay Pacific) MAN-PMI after our Monarch A300-600R went tech the same summer. As the latter had a different layout, the A300 seating plan didn’t apply (and in pre-LoCo days for most people seating wasn’t often a free-for-all). I made sure we sat at the back under the third engine.

I flew an ex Cathay Pacific Tristar when my A300 went tech from MAN to Larnaca in Summer 98. Was yours TF-ABU by any chance?

Ok thanks!

Actually, you would be seated in front of the No. 2 engine (located at the back of the fuselage with the intake at the base of the tail), not underneath.

[COLOR=]I loved flying on the TriStar – the power of the third engine was immense if you were sitting towards the back of the aircraft. I flew on a few – British Airtours MAN-TFS-MAN in July 1987, Caledonian MAN-FAO-MAN in April 1996 and finally Air Atlanta Icelandic (ex-Cathay Pacific) MAN-PMI after our Monarch A300-600R went tech the next summer. As the latter had a different layout, the A300 seating plan didn’t apply (and in pre-LoCo days for most people seating wasn’t often a free-for-all). I made sure we sat at the back under the third engine.

Just the same, I would NEVER confuse a L-1011 with a {Yuck} DC-10. I know I flew at least one leg to HNL on a Tristar.

I hate to be anal about this, but the L-1011 is my favourite airplane of all time. Either your dates or your aircraft aren’t consistant with when Hawaiian retired the Tristars in favour of leased DC-10’s from American. At some stage in 1995 maybe even late 1994, Hawaiian was done with the L-1011. They were stored and either wound up with Rich International, or Air Ops. If you’re positive that you flew with Hawaiian on a Tristar, then you flew to HNL in the early 90’s, perhaps up until 1994. Otherwise, it was another operator of a Tristar with a white fuselage, like Delta, America Trans Air, or the aforementioned Rich International, all of whom did the LAX-HNL run with Tristars.

Better a sister in a whorehouse than a brother on a DC-10.

Nice one! 😀

That being said, you were on a Hawaiian DC-10, not an L1011. The Tristars were long gone by 2000.

No you do not! The brother and I got this same treatment last year on United flying LHR-IAD.

Just the same, I would NEVER confuse a L-1011 with a {Yuck} DC-10. I know I flew at least one leg to HNL on a Tristar.

Better a sister in a whorehouse than a brother on a DC-10.

Scott

Boy do I get things wrong! Yes LAX-HNL and yes Hawaiian. But I am pretty sure it was as recently as ’00. Certainly not as long ago as ’94.

That being said, you were on a Hawaiian DC-10, not an L1011. The Tristars were long gone by 2000.

The entire family got upgraded to 1st Class on the LAX-HNL leg because they had overbooked our orignial flight. You do not forget things like that.

No you do not! The brother and I got this same treatment last year on United flying LHR-IAD.

Are you sure about this? Aloha never operated the Tristar, or any other widebody, for that matter. Hawaiian operated the Tristar, but was phased out by ’94 when they took AA’s DC-10’s. Are you sure it wasn’t ATA or something? They operated the Tristar from LAX-HNL up until recently.

Boy do I get things wrong! Yes LAX-HNL and yes Hawaiian. But I am pretty sure it was as recently as ’00. Certainly not as long ago as ’94. The entire family got upgraded to 1st Class on the LAX-HNL leg because they had overbooked our orignial flight. You do not forget things like that.

Scott

Just seen it on a.net, ex Caledonian Tristar, now with Air Express Liberia, A8-AAA. Looks in a very sorry state.

Never mind, here’s my latest model to cheer you up…

G-BBAI

who cares about the paint job. Its a tristar that has been saved from the belly of the desert and won a reprieve from the scrap man.