BAC 1-11-500 Sabena for Microsoft Flight Simulator 98
By Frans Vranken, November 1999
Textures: Vital Vanbeginne,
The model has
Moving parts:Gear, rudder spoilers en more...3D virtual cockpit and windows
The model is best viewed with a 3d card
For maximum reality, we recommend you use the BAC 1-11 sound package (file name 111SNDV1.ZIP) by Ignacio Sanguinetti and Raul A Rodriguez, available at http://www.SurClaro.
BAC 1-11 History
The BAC 1-11 was the first commercial aircraft produced by the new British Aircraft Corporation, which was formed from a merger of the aerospace divisions of Vickers, Bristol, English Electric and Hunting. The 1-11's roots lay in two separate projects, the Hunting 107 (a 30-seat regional jet) and the VC-11 (a smaller 140-seat version of the VC-10).
The two projects were combined and relaunched at the BAC 1-11, a 60-80 sear twin jet which was designed to be a replacement for its predecessor, the Vickers Viscount. An extensive sales effort was mounted after the project's announcement in 1963, and by the time of the first flight on August 20 1963, more than 60 orders had been secured, including crucial customers in the US market, Braniff and Mohawk. Greater successes would have been achieved had it not been for the US CAB, which blocked a number of purchases (though it allowed the same airlines to buy the DC-9 two years later).
Despite the setback of the loss of the prototype just weeks after the first flight, the 1-11 entered service on April 9 1965 with British United. A further US order came from American, which bought the uprated -400 series with the more powerful Spey 511-14s, while a number of UK charter operators bought the 1-11-300, with higher gross weight than the -400, for IT operations.
BAC developed a stretched 1-11, the -500, which first flew in 1968. This had a 13ft 6in plug in the forward fuselage increasing seating to over 100 seats. This proved even more popular with UK IT operators and finally secured an order from the UK's state-owned airline BEA, which bought a fleet of 18 1-11-510EDs. The -500 did not score any more sales in the US but won orders in the far east, Latin America and Europe as well as the UK.
The final production development of the 1-11 was the -475 series, which first flew in August 1969. This was a special 'hot and high' version which featured the -400 fuselage mated to the -500 wing, uprated Speys and a special undercarriage with lager wheels. However, it proved too specialised and only a handful were sold.
By 1980, 1-11 production was running down in the UK, and BAC sold the 1-11 production line to the Romanian Government. A number of aircraft were completed from kits but the poor state of the Romanian economy under Ceaucescu meant full-scale production never started. The final production tally for all 1-11 variants was 244, and the last Romanian-built example flew in April 1989.
The 1-11 remains in service with a number of operators, principally in the UK and Africa. Major operators today include European and British World in the UK, Okada Air of Nigeria and Sabena Nationwide in South Africa.
Legal information
This aircraft is copyrighted by Frans Vranken and MAY NOT be modify or repaint without written permission of the designer. This file MAY NOT BE INCLUDED ON ANY CD-ROM, Diskette or sold in any way shape or form. The AFX is not currently available at this time.
This software is covered under International Copyright Conventions.
If you have any comments please drop either of me a line,
it will be greatly appreciated.
Other projects that I have done
B737-200 Sabena
B737-200 Amber Air
Dc-3 Sabena
Dc-3 Otiss Spunkmeyer
frans.vranken@skynet.be
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