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TriStar Airliner · iniBuilds · MSFS 2024
Released product and variants
The released TriStar models the L-1011-500 with a full flight-engineer station, triple inertial navigation, Performance Management System and Direct Lift Control. The package includes a POD variant. Its optional lower-deck lounge is an imagined retrofit to the -500, as the developer explains.
Official developer / designated-store reference · checked 2026-09-14
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
The L-1011 TriStar followed the Boeing 747 and DC-10 into the wide-body airliner market. Three Rolls-Royce RB211 engines power it, with the centre engine fed through an S-shaped intake above the rear fuselage. The design included automatic landing and descent-control capability. Cabin layouts and range vary by TriStar version.
iniBuilds TriStar airliner manual, page 8; the represented short-body model, not the complete L-1011 family.
TriStar and Me
Mark Barnard · 11 April 2022
Training Hell
Michael Dater · September 2015, PDF pages 1–2
Memories of Flying the L-1011
Jeff Hill · 28 June 2023
Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation
The Super Constellation uses four R-3350 piston engines with retractable landing gear and wing flaps. RedWing's aircraft includes long- and short-nose configurations, plus military and cargo fits.
Lockheed L-1049G Super Constellation
Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor
The Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor is an air-superiority fighter.
Lockheed Martin F-22 product card
Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II
The F-35B is the short-takeoff and vertical-landing variant of the F-35 Lightning II.
F-35A; these figures do not describe F-35B or F-35C
Lockheed Model 10 Electra
Aeroplane Heaven’s Model 10A Electra is a twin-radial transport with retractable landing gear, wing flaps and separate elevator and rudder trim. The developer’s cockpit rendition includes a Sperry-style automatic-flight installation.
Model 10A / Navy R2O as catalogued by the National Naval Aviation Museum.
FlyingIron P-38L Lightning · FlyingIron · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Two different flap systems
The manual lists Fowler-flap settings of 8, 20 and 40 degrees. Separate 35-degree dive-recovery flaps have a different purpose from speedbrakes. Hydraulically boosted ailerons accompany pitch and rudder trim. Its IAS table lists 130 knots for full flap and 152 knots for gear.
PDF pp21-22, 44, 46; speed table rendered and inspected
FlyingIron P-38L Lightning · FlyingIron · MSFS 2020 · MSFS 2024
Later flight-model revisions
Versions 1.2.0 and 1.2.1 revise controls, compressibility and the three flap positions. The notes also fix an MSFS 2024 cockpit interaction issue and remove a spurious roll during gear retraction.
Flight Model Improvements; Bug Fixes
FlyingIron / Alpeggio P-38L XP12 conversion · FlyingIron / Alpeggio · X-Plane 12
The independent X-Plane 12 conversion
The public conversion author's v2.3 instructions of July 2025 describe an independent ACF conversion and object changes, with permission stated. They also retain an old-dataref startup warning. This work has its own authorship and version scope.
Public conversion author instructions
