Im not clear which picture you mean. Do you mean the blue one second to the left?

I note the same picture appears on the Boeing.com website so it can't be too egregious.

You're not talking about the propellers, are you? ..... They relate to the shadow image, which I guess is of the Orion it is replacing.

Yup. When I saw the propellers, I thought the picture was showing propellers on the engine and then a shadow of the plane not thinking that they were just superimposing the plane over the Orion. Now that I look at the picture again, it is obvious.

Oh - well I saw that but made the same supposition as Pulaski

To change topic from Malaysia for a moment......

Goodbye Timmy...thanks for deploying us around the world (and bringing us home again) in relative comfort.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/library/129924
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-26728765

That's sad.

I really quite like the Tristar.

I'm confused. Is the TriStar the Lockheed TriStar? Looking at pictures, they look similar with two engines on the wings and one in the tail. Not many planes had that engine configuration.

The very same - the S duct intake was unique in commercial airliners.

Yes, the Lockheed TriStar, it was the RAF's version of the KC-10; a commercial aircraft converted to an airborne refueling solution.

BA used them as well for a time in the 70s and 80s, even before they inherited the DC-10 from British Caledonian.

I have a mild affinity for tri-jets in general.

I also like the TriStar. Unlike Boeing that had a history of building both military and commercial airplanes, TriStar was Lockheed's first and only commercial airplane and suspect Lockheed thought they could break into the commercial market with just that plane. When sales did not meet expectations, they abandoned the commercial market.

I think the early issues with the DC-10 soured the market for three engined widebodies. The TriStar just came too late, I think.

Wasn't it their first and only jet?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_L-188_Electra


I liked the L-1011 TriStar, had an unusual engine sound compared to most other jets I would work with, but the airline (some fly by night charter company in the late 90's) we were working the planes for didn't use cans to load the baggage and it was not fun free loading a plane that big, nor was free loading a DC-10 when we handled Sun Country.

The Electra is the airframe the P3 Orion is based on - yes that's how old it is!

So today's MH370 news is that a "concentration" of debris comprising less than 1 item/sq mile has been found. ..... I wonder if they realise that they're searching within the Indian Ocean garbage patch?