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 ...

It would appear that the L-1011 would be poised to succeed against its outdated and dangerous rival, but this was not in fact the case with over 430 DC-10s being delivered to customers. In this ...

Federal Aviation Administration inspectors at Delta Air Lines have found more problems in the recurrent training program for crews flying the Lockheed L-1011 than with the other types of aircraft ...

Lockheed Corporation's L-1011 TriStar was air luxury made manifest. Like the DC-10, the L-1011 came with three engines.

Any lead in development time Lockheed may have had in the late 1960s was up in smoke by 1968. Thanks to the Rolls-Royce debacle, the L-1011 TriStar didn't deploy ahead of the pack but instead in ...

J. B. Beach, Designing the Lockheed L-1011 to Meet Airline Needs Beyond 1970, SAE Transactions, Vol. 77, Section 3: Papers 680436–680591 (1968), pp. 2223-2242 ...

A humanitarian organisation has purchased a hospital-configured Lockheed L-1011 that it plans to base at a newly reopened airport in Cambodia alongside a fleet of L-100s. The L-100 is the civil ...