In the early '70s the skies saw something new in aviation, a three engine or "trijet" aircraft. With examples like the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar and McDonell Douglas DC-10, travelers noticed not ...

Conceived as a high-performance fighter for the export market, the Lockheed CL-1200 was a company-funded attempt to build an improved and cost-effective version of the Starfighter.

It was discovered that the aircraft engine was hit by a bird during take-off ... aviation history occurred in 1960 when an Eastern Airlines propeller driven Lockheed L-188 Electra crashed into the sea ...

Theirs is an unabashedly unglamorous existence, flying 50,000 tons of freight every year in approximately 200 gutted Learjets, Dassault Falcon 20s, DC-9-32s, Lockheed L-188 Electras, CASA 212s ...

Designed in 1939, the Lockheed L-133 was decades ahead of its time—a futuristic jet fighter that could’ve made the U.S. the first nation to deploy jet-powered combat aircraft. Featuring swept ...

Including Juliane Koepcke there were 86 passengers and six crewmembers on board the Lockheed L-188 Electra turboprop that was scheduled to fly to Pucallpa and then on to Iquitos, ... the aircraft ...

What emerged was Lockheed’s P-3 Orion, a patrol airplane derived from the company’s initially troubled L-188 Electra airliner ... to the L-188’s engine mounts and wing structure ...

The first L-188 Electras entered service with Eastern Air Lines on 12 January 1959. JIM SHAUGHNESSY PHOTO. The first Lockheed L-188 entered service with Eastern Air Lines on 12 January 1959. American ...

Downed by mechanical failure in a thunderstorm, the Lockheed L-188 Electra had been in service only 11 days for 132 flight hours. It was a Braniff flight, one of the company’s first of many ...

The aircraft, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, struck a large flock of starlings immediately after takeoff. Three of the plane’s engines swallowed birds, causing a loss of control of the plane.