Various classic tube liners

Here is my latest classic tube liners and Airlines, bringing back the good old day's of my childhood in hopes of doing the same to everyone out there too. Kenny

 

American Airlines DC-10-10 SFO-PHX

 

American Airlines DC-10-10 departing ORD arriving in JFK

 

Western Airlines B727-200 SFO-LAX

 

Wing view Delta Airlines B-747-200 DEN on final to SEA

 

Delta Airlines B-747-100 DFW-ATL

 

Continental Airlines DC-10-10 DEN-ABQ

 

Eastern Airlines Lockheed L-1011 MSY-ATL

 

TWA Airlines Lockheed L-1011 ORD-JFK

Looking at your tubeliner shots always brings back good memories Kenny. I really like the DC-10-10 pics. and especially the L-1011. Great work. :cool: :cool: :D

Thanks Larry as usual for your kind words. My favorite is also the DC-10-10 as I think it has a sexy look after all these years. Kenny

Always a pleasure to look at your classic airliners Kenny, outstanding pics again! :cool::cool::pilot:

Lovely set of screen shots Kenny, love the liveries too. I may be mistaken but I was under the impression that the tubeliners was a term for narrow bodied jetliners that were long such as the higher series of the DC-8 and the DC-9 and the wide bodied jumbos which started with the 747 and included the L-1011 and the DC-10 were not considered as tubeliners? I may be wrong, just wondering.

 

Whatever the answer is, it changes nothing of the fact that this is an absolutely lovely set of screen shots and that I enjoyed viewing a lot. Thank you for sharing. Best wishes.

 

Khalid

Your shots always bring back memories of the good old days of aviation Kenny, well done! :)

Of course I am always very much appreciative of the simmers that take the time to respond to all print screen. As for Khalid, I always thought the word Tube Liner was used as a generalization of anything that tubular such as a liner, such as mine would be considered Tube liner. Maybe I was using the incorrect definition. I can see it possibly both ways, thanks for bring it to my attention. Kenny

Of course I am always very much appreciative of the simmers that take the time to respond to all print screen. As for Khalid, I always thought the word Tube Liner was used as a generalization of anything that tubular such as a liner, such as mine would be considered Tube liner. Maybe I was using the incorrect definition. I can see it possibly both ways, thanks for bring it to my attention. Kenny

 

Hi Kenny,

 

Thank you for your reply. Again I may be wrong but the impression I had from reading decades of aviation magazines and periodicals is the tube-liners were narrow bodied long fuselage airliners such as the ones in the pictures below:

 

B757-300

 

 

DC8-60

 

DC-8 Super 63

 

DC-9 Series 80

 

As you see from the examples above they do resemble a tube. Inside these airliners the width was a maximum of 6 seats abreast. While the wide bodied airliners were put in a class of their own, referred to as the "Jumbos" in its day, but this classification may be less common nowadays. The first Jumbos were the 747, DC-10 and the Tristar. The A380 and the 777 fit into this as well. I apologize for visiting this issue with another post but I just wanted to show you the visual concept behind my impression. Again I emphasize I may very well be mistaken.

 

Best wishes.

 

Khalid

Again thanks for reminding me. I grew up in aviation as my dad was one of the test pilot for MD, 8,9 & 10's. I thought it was a general term for all bodies, I now that larger A/C are big bodies, but again thought it was a general term. No biggie. I miss the 8's, DC-10 B-707 & l-1011 era, my generation of airlines. Every time I flew on a DC-8, 9 or 10 I thought of my dad as I lost him in 1980. Kenny