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 ...

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.

In December of 1972, a nearly new Lockheed L-1011 aircraft (Eastern Flight 401) descended into the Florida everglades killing 101 souls because the crew was distracted with fixing a burned-out ...

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 ...

Over the last decade, the Royal Air Force has made some very deep budget cuts while also trying to modernize its much smaller aircraft fleet. Part of this plan saw its Lockheed L-1011 based ...