The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar almost bankrupted the company due to production delays and limited demand in the trijet market. The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 had a problematic safety record but outsold ...

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 ...

In the 21st century, spotting a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar in the sky is like spotting a dodo right before the species went kaput. In 2023, there's only one TriStar left in service. Don't think it's ...

Lockheed Martin's plane (then called the Lockheed California), the L-1011 TriStar, changed that on May 25, 1972 with the first cross-country flight using an automatic flight control system (AFCS ...

His L-1011 Tristar jetliner, No. N728DA, was the last of the Lockheed-built jetliners in Delta's fleet, and the flight from Orlando, Fla., to Atlanta was the jet's last before being taken out of ...

Credit: Mark Wagner/Aviation-Images Aviation Week was invited to join a Lockheed L-1011 TriStar training sortie, which included a demonstration of the main procedures involved in a typical air launch.

The Lockheed L-1011 jumbo jet flew from Tucson, Ariz., to Kansas City International Airport on Saturday evening. Phil Liming, TriStar educational program director, said their “namesake aircraft ...

Part of this plan saw its Lockheed L-1011 based TriStars being retired ... sales and leasing outfit out of Palos Verdes, CA, the TriStar tanker in question is a mult-irole leviathan of the ...

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.