A quick Google shows five Lockheed L1011 TriStars museums in US or Middle East. Ok not RAF machines, but as a passenger jets they are preserved and represented.
What’s the history of the TriStar? The Lockheed bribery scandal over the sales to Japan when senior ministers in Japan and top execs at Lockheed had to resign, plus the delays in development of the RR RB211 engine that led to the collapse of Rolls Royce aero engines and a bail out by the UK government and Lockheed that the US government said was illegal (led by the then Californian Governor, Ronald Reagan). BA didn’t want the -500 and got rid of them to MoD as soon as pos, Pan Am went bust following Lockerbie and RAF got two more -500s from the MoD, a plane from what I suspect the RAF themselves never would have wanted….added to which, from the various war zones in the last 20 years, the delayed trooping flights on the planes (despite the best efforts of those who had to operate and service them in RAF)…. Errr let’s quietly scarp them! They were not even a British design.
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