The designer of the visual model is Kevin Trinkle
FDE designer Sam Chinn
moving parts Kevin Trinkle
Textures Jim Waters.
Checklist for Lockheed L1011 made by Chris van Bijlert
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To install in Fs2000
Use Winzip or similar and unzip this file to the aircraft folder in fs2000 and thats it!
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Hope you like this great airliner its the latest afx from freeflight design and is packed with features, ie full moving surfaces transparent cockpit windows fully animated parts.
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If you wish to change anything on this aircraft ie: repaint please ask first I wont turn you down, unless its going to be used for a fee.
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over 30 years ago, on November 17, 1970, a huge tri-jet, registration number N1011, made its maiden flight from the Lockheed Test Facility
at Paimdale just north of Los Angeles, Califomia. A few weeks earlier on August 29, 1970, a similar tri-jet, the Douglas DC-10, made its maiden flight from Long Beach, just 60 miles (10Okm) to the north. The race was on to impress the airlines with these new designs. Not only were these two three- engined wide bodies in deadly competition with each other but both were taking on Boeing's four-engined 747 jumbo jet.
In their early versions, the slightly larger DC- 10 with its General Electric CF6-6 turbofans and the TriStar with its Rolls-Royce RB21 1 turbo- fans, achieved similar take-off power.In February 1971 the take-off thrusts on offer from the two turbo-fan manufacturers were 40,6001b (18OkN) for the DC-10 CF6 and 42,0001b (187kN) for the RB211. Not much in it, though the GE engine, CF6-50, achieved a thrust of 49,5001b (22OkN) for Airbus'A300B. In the battle to upgrade these figures, Rolls-Royce - with launch costs for the RB21 1 of £65.5m - ran into financial dif- ficulties.
A combination of competition from the long-range DC-10 and the emerging Airbus twin, the A300B2, together with the recession in the early 1970s, imposed additional financial burdens upon Rolls-Royce and Lockheed. But the Lockheed TriStar had a good pedigree, coming from the same line that included such notable propliners as the Super Constellation of the 1950s and the Electra of the 1960s. The launch customers for the TriStar were Eastern and TWA. Lockheed produced a total of 250 LIOlls.
The LIOII-1 first came into service with the delivery of N306EA to Eastern on April 5, 1972, obtaining FAA certification on April 14. The last of this series.
Eastern Air Lines was a launch customer for the TriStar. Whisperliner N301EA, the second TriStar built - although commed in 1971 was not delivered to Eastern until 1973.
Air Canada flew TriStar Is from 1973 and 500s from 1981. The type was withdrawn in the early 1990s although it was brought out of retirement briefly several years later to provide additional capacity, mainly with. in North America.
By 1977 TriStar number 32 was bought by Cathay Pacific following the demise of Court Line (in 1974).
N741 DA, was delivered to Delta Air Lines on May 13, 1983. Lockheed was to sell more of these medium-haul jets than its rival Douglas did with the DC-10-10. The first LIOII-100 TriStar, HZ-AMA, was delivered to Saudia on June 25, 1975, and the last, the 13th, N7036T, went to TWA on May 26, 1982. The 11011-1 upgradetothe LIOII- 100 changed the specification to provide extra fuel capacity, thus giving the aircraft greater take-off weight. Most of this was taken up with extra fuel, either in larger wing tanks or in the centre section area, needed to achieve the objective of the modification, an increased range of 900 miles (1,45Okm). On hot days in particular, this extra weight could be a problem at airfields without extended runway lengths, hence the following upgrade. The LIOII-200 was the answer, with increased thrust from the now 50,0001b (222kN) up-rated RB211-524B engine. The first of the 24 L1011-200s, HZ-AHD, was delivered to Saudia on May 28, 1977, with the last, A40-TT, going out to Gulf Air on December 2, 1981.
As at dec 2000 delta had 17 tristars in service 6 series 1, 6 series 500, and 5 series 250
(This an abridged history taken from Airliner World and other publications)
