New British Airways Commercial...

[HoHoHo]

Eric Mc said:

My favourite Trident livery -

That and the TriStar looked great!

I guess it's something to do with our age Eric!

[Eric Mc]

Did you ever see this particular Tristar?

[HoHoHo]

Eric Mc said:

Did you ever see this particular Tristar?

Can't say I did other than in photo's.

Still love this....



Probably a bit boring for the 'modern traveller'

I flew many, many times to the Middle East as a youngster on a VC10

[Eric Mc]

The BEA/Eastern Tristar conducted a European Tour in 1972 and attended that year's Farnborough Air Show. I saw it on a visit to Dublin in August.

I have a soft spot for classic airliner liveries.

[thatone1967]

HoHoHo said:

Probably a bit boring for the 'modern traveller'

I flew many, many times to the Middle East as a youngster on a VC10

Taken from the Queen Building? Hunting is the site of the "New Terminal 4"... for those who don't know..

[Ayahuasca]

Apache said:

Ayahuasca said:

Great to have a progression of aircraft types, shame the reel starts to run backwards after Concorde though.

It doesn't really though does it, Concorde was aimed at a different target than other airliners, speed, that was found not to be economically viable so we now have composites, extremely powerful and efficient turbofans etc and the game has moved on with the 380 so the technology has moved on

Not to be economically viable for the French, maybe.

The airframes had a fraction of the hours of the average B747 and iirc BA was making a profit on them. There was a dip after 9-11 but that was a long time ago now.

[Eric Mc]

Ayahuasca said:

Apache said:

Ayahuasca said:

Great to have a progression of aircraft types, shame the reel starts to run backwards after Concorde though.

It doesn't really though does it, Concorde was aimed at a different target than other airliners, speed, that was found not to be economically viable so we now have composites, extremely powerful and efficient turbofans etc and the game has moved on with the 380 so the technology has moved on

Not to be economically viable for the French, maybe.

The airframes had a fraction of the hours of the average B747 and iirc BA was making a profit on them. There was a dip after 9-11 but that was a long time ago now.

They were only economically viable for BA because BA never had to actually pay for the purchase of the individual aircraft - or at least - they were handed over to teh airline for the sum of £1 each. With no capital costs to recover, BA would have been extremely incompetent to lose money on Concorde operations.

Somehow, Air France were able to rise to this level of incompetence.

In the end, it was the British taxpayer who paid for Concorde. Whether that is a desirable situation is going to depend on what you think taxes should be spent on.

[HoHoHo]

thatone1967 said:

HoHoHo said:

Probably a bit boring for the 'modern traveller'

I flew many, many times to the Middle East as a youngster on a VC10

Taken from the Queen Building? Hunting is the site of the "New Terminal 4"... for those who don't know..

Taken from a web page

[mattviatura]

Why is that BEA Tristar carrying an American registration number?

Some of the old logos look great but I have to say I think BA's current logo and tail fin design look fabulous. Whoever designed it did a really good job in my opinion.

[Ayahuasca]

The BA liveries are one of the great dating stamps in films - see a red-tailed jet and you know you are probably watching a 70's movie.

[Eric Mc]

mattviatura said:

Why is that BEA Tristar carrying an American registration number?

Some of the old logos look great but I have to say I think BA's current logo and tail fin design look fabulous. Whoever designed it did a really good job in my opinion.

I thought no one was going to ask

The reason why it carries an American reg is because it's an American aircraft. N305EA was one of the development aircraft and was slated for delivery, eventually, to Eastern Airlines. The EA in the registration indicates the eventual operator. In fact, the main fuselage colours are Eastern Airlines. For the European tour the BEA tiles and logo were painted on the forward fuselage and tailfin.
In the event, BEA was subsumed into BA before their first Tristars were delivered so they never got to carry the full BEA scheme in service - which is a real pity.

[mattviatura]

Ah thanks. Great looking aircraft.