Lockheed had high hopes, but delays, ... the L-1011 TriStar tells a bittersweet tale of ambition and innovation. ... US F-15 Fighter Jets Takeoff from Frozen Air Base at Full Afterburners.

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 ...

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 ...

Lockheed Corporation's L-1011 TriStar was air luxury made manifest. Like the DC-10, the L-1011 came with three engines. However, the L-1011's tail engine was mounted inside the fuselage, improving ...

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 ...

Caption: June 15, 1972 First-class seating on Trans World Airlines’ new widebody Lockheed L-1011 jetliner offers traditional twin window seats and new center-line swivel seats.

Orbital Sciences initially selected this particular L-1011, which was delivered new to Air Canada and parked in Marana, Arizona at the time, due to Air Canada's reputation for good maintenance ...

DALLAS — Sunday marked the 30th anniversary of the crash of Delta Flight 191 at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. The Lockheed L-1011 jumbo jet was coming in for a landing on a rainy ...