Talk:Lockheed TriStar (RAF)

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Thanks

With all the new and existing tanker articles avaliable (A333 MRTT, KC-45, A310 MRTT, CC-150, KC-767, KC-10/KDC-10), I felt it was time to create this one, rather than have redircts to the L-1011 page. Being late at night, it took me over 3 hours to do what I thought would take 30 minutes!

Thanks to everyone who helped improve the article while I slept after spending half the night creating it! A special thanks to Nimbus (who has actually flown to the Falklands on the pic he added from the Geman Wiki) and Adrian (pics forthcoming) for hepling to find/add new pics, at my request.

Title

As to the title, Lockheed TriStar redirects to Lockheed L-1011, which I beleive is as it should be. That left Lockheed TriStar (RAF) as the only reasonalbly short title available. I'm certainly open to alternate titles. - BillCJ (talk) 04:51, 10 March 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Technically, the RAF refer to the aircraft as the Tristar, not the TriStar. I don't know whether this warrents renaming the article.Nigel Ish (talk) 16:08, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Good work on the referencing Nigel. Lockheed used the cap S at least in here: Lockheed L-1011 TriStar logo -Fnlayson (talk) 16:17, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Apparantly both styles are used interchangeably, per this page. I did check that page and two printed sources (all 3 use "TriStar") before choosing that style when I created the article. I do understand that web pages are not necessarily "official". If you have a definitive source that "Tristar" is the official style, we can change the article's title to match. - BillCJ (talk) 16:29, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Well everybody else, including Lockheed refers to the aircraft as the TriStar - apparently according the Air International article I referenced, it's just the RAF who uses Tristar (although the RAF website [1] and [2] can't seem to agree what to call it.Nigel Ish (talk) 16:30, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

On reflection, it probably isn't worth renaming the article - although it may be worth a note in the article.Nigel Ish (talk) 16:33, 15 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Entry into service

No mention of the C.1s ! i know for a fact that they were operating mid 1984, as I was on one of the first, if not the first Tristar trooping flight to Wideawake, in July or August 1984, via Dakar (we all got off and lounged on the pan while it was refuelled, in our Falkland de-riguer temperate DPMs, sweating our B**ocks off). Does anyone have a reference to update the article? --Petebutt (talk) 15:02, 29 July 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Scrapping at Bruntingthorpe

The aircraft were stored there and have been scrapped, not sure how to word it in the article. but the main article for the Aerodrome mentions that they were scrapped, along with a VC-10. A photo source: https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1472579 2600:100A:B03B:4E37:345B:CD56:A06B:7680 (talk) 10:01, 29 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Flight refuelling probes

Some of the RAF TriStar fleet were themselves fitted fixed probes, above the co-pilots' window. They were then subsequently removed - replaced by a patch on the upper fuselage. None of this is mentioned in this article - but it would be good to include this, with appropriate citations. Militum professio scriniarii (talk) 23:27, 30 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]