THE SEXIEST JET EVER!

[keefyboy]

To me, the Lockheed Jetstar will always remain the best looking business jet ever - it always looked so mean and business like but beautiful at the same time.  The first proper bizzjet - there were always a couple on the pan whenever I visited Gatwick in the late 60's and early 70's.  The thing that pisses me off about this video is that British was best but we got stuffed by American protectionism as always - and remains to this day!!  Heyho - it's an interesting video if you've not seen it already so here it is. Bye the way - Elvis owned 3 Jetstars as well as the Convair - there is a video out there  about one of his Jetstars marooned in the desert - the one previously owned by Frank Sinatra.  If I can find it I'll post it to this thread

[graham]

Thanks Keith, I remember the first Stateside trip in 1972, all you saw were Jetstars, Lear Jets and Sabreliners with the occasional Gulfstream 2. The Cessna 500 Citation was shown at the Dulles show in 1972.

[Jeff]

I went in the one that used to sit outside Graceland

[davidallum]

Dec 20, 2022 17:52:48 GMT graham said:

Thanks Keith, I remember the first Stateside trip in 1972, all you saw were Jetstars, Lear Jets and Sabreliners with the occasional Gulfstream 2. The Cessna 500 Citation was shown at the Dulles show in 1972.

Oh happy days.

[keefyboy]

[davebasing]

Always liked the Jet Star, flown in a few bizjets over the years but never sadly a Jet Star. A few of the civil ones I’ve graphed over the years. May do the military ones shortly.

Firstly the prototype which had just 2 engines, but when it became impractical to licence build the Bristol Siddeley Orpheus engines in the States the decision was made to use 4 P&W engines instead. I graphed the prototype in July 2000 while it was a ground instructional frame with the British Columbia Institute of Technology in Vancouver. It subsequently appropriately went to the Museum of Flight in Seattle.
00-rf by dave tompkins, on Flickr

A trio I took at Gatwick, N300P in 1966; N679RW of Coca Cola in 1967; & N5516L in 1973.
cbw10 by dave tompkins, on Flickr
cbw11 by dave tompkins, on Flickr
73-ac by dave tompkins, on Flickr

Heathrow in 1977
77-bb by dave tompkins, on Flickr

Former German AF SU-DAG at Khartoum in 1986
86-ek by dave tompkins, on Flickr

Mexican stored at Dallas Addison in 2008 (I also took a rather poor quality shot of it on approach to Washington National in 2001)
US08 792 by dave tompkins, on Flickr

Transport Canada’s C-FDTX preserved at Rockliffe, Ontario in 1998 and in 2010 taken inside in the warm (given what it was like for the poor CF100 outside on that day – brass monkeys were enquiring about soldering!)
98-ig by dave tompkins, on Flickr
IMG_6890 by dave tompkins, on Flickr
IMG_6893 by dave tompkins, on Flickr

[graham]

Hi Dave

We saw the first two of your Jetstars albeit with different reggies during the 72 Washington trip, N300P was CF-DTM, N679RW was wearing N2200M. Like you, I also saw N5516L at LGW in 73