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When launched, the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar was the most technologically-advanced widebody commercial airliner ever. This ...
With its third engine uniquely flowing into the rest of its fuselage, the Lockheed TriStar L-1011 is one of the most visually striking and instantly recognizable aircraft in aviation history.
The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar are arguably the best aircraft of the trijet era. While both planes had several differences, what truly set them apart was the ...
The first L-1011 was finally delivered to Eastern Airlines in April 1972, just as a spike in oil prices triggered a recession and weakened demand for new aircraft. Lockheed ultimately produced 250 ...
Three-engine jetliners were a essential to air travel in decades past, but they have all but disappeared. Here's why these ...
Credit: Mark Wagner/Aviation-Images Aviation Week was invited to join a Lockheed ... of “Say again aircraft type?” from a perplexed controller unfamiliar with the “L-1011” moniker prompted ...
Aircraft formerly known as the "Flying Hospital" will be re-purposed as a S.T.E.M. education lab in Kansas City with TriStar History and Preservation. Photos: Lockheed L-1011 TriStar Experience ...
Nearly a decade after Lockheed Martin pulled out ... was done for the P-3 Orion anti-submarine aircraft. It also housed manufacturing for the L-1011 commercial jet built from the 1960s through ...
Saudi Arabia's civil aviation administration believes a failure to follow safety procedures during the disassembly of a Lockheed L-1011 aircraft resulted in an explosion which killed four workers.
Carl Kotchian, the former president of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. whose admission of ... the SR-71 Blackbird spy plane and the L-1011 TriStar passenger jet. But it would be the L-1011 that would ...