Lockheed L-1011

...a small private plane over San Diego. A total of 143 people die, including seven on the ground. 1985. Delta Flight 191, a Lockheed L-1011, crashes in Dallas after encountering a severe microburst on approach to landing. Thirty people...

In this article: American Airlines Flight 587, Pan Am, Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing, Carbon, KLM, Northwest Airlines, and New York City

...line up of F-4 Phantoms awaiting conversion to QF-4 Phantoms by BAE systems, Rice casually points to what appears to be a normal Lockheed L-1011. Except here at Mojave few things are normal and this L-1011, known as Stargazer, has been used to...

In this article: Mojave Air and Space Port, Lockheed L-1011, Mojave, Beechcraft Duchess, White Knight, Grumman Albatross, Masten Space Systems, and F-4 Phantoms

The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar, commonly referred to as just L-1011 (pronounced "ell-ten-eleven") or TriStar, is a medium-to-long range, three-engine , widebody passenger jet airliner. It was the third widebody airliner to enter commercial...

In this article: Lockheed L-1011, Lockheed, Eastern Air Lines, Rolls-Royce, McDonnell Douglas DC-10, Trans World Airlines, American Airlines, Delta Air Lines, and Cathay Pacific

...a jet splits the October sky, wavering and adjusting on approach to LAS. Its nose floats much lower than a DC-9's. This is a Lockheed L-1011. I know the outlines of airplanes because, at sixteen, I spend a weekend making marker drawings of...

In this article: Futron, Africa, Acapulco, Lockheed L-1011, and Silver

...old days when refreshments were free and we got little gifts. I still have a Delta Air Lines deck of playing cards. We were flying in a L-1011 airplane and when we took off, someone in a plane that was landing noticed that we had three flat...

In this article: Fort Lauderdale, L-1011, Delta Air Lines, Hudson River, and Hollywood, Fla.

...Tristar is an air-to-air tanker and transport aircraft in service with the Royal Air Force. All were converted from civilian Lockheed L-1011-500 TriStar airliners. The Royal Air Force operates nine L-1011-500s Tristars, six ex-British...

In this article: RAF Brize Norton, Royal Air Force, Lockheed Tristar, Marshall Aerospace, Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, Falklands War, Operation Telic, Kosovo War, and 1991 Gulf War

...from Orbital Sciences, based in Dulles, Virginia, which launches a satellite-carrying Pegasus rocket from a sling beneath a modified Lockheed L-1011 airliner. If you would like to reuse any content from New Scientist, either in print or...

In this article: Virgin Galactic, Virgin, Will Whitehorn, Abu Dhabi, Lockheed L-1011, Surrey Satellite Technology, Scaled Composites, and Orbital Sciences

...with a friend just before midnight on Dec. 29, 1972, when they heard the roar of a jumbo jet flying dangerously low. Within seconds, the L-1011 coming from New York and carrying 176 people crashed into the pitch darkness of the Everglades...

In this article: South Carolina, National Transportation Safety Board, Charleston, Georgetown, Flight 447, and L-1011

The goal is to promote their planned memorial that would allow visitors to walk into an enclosed area to hear the story of how the L-1011, flying from New York to Miami, crashed into the Everglades after the crew became distracted by a...

In this article: New York, ValuJet Flight 592, New Year's Eve, L-1011, and Eastern Airlines

Kansas City’s Wheeler Downtown Airport will soon score a first when a Lockheed L-1011 flies in to become a permanent part of the Airline History Museum. </p><p>An almost pristine example of one of the most beloved modern airliners...

In this article: Lockheed L-1011, Kansas City, Trans World Airlines, Jet fuel, Lockheed Constellation, Lockheed, and Rolls-Royce