L-1011 was the first "big" jet I ever flew in. Boston to Bermuda. Would have been '87 or so. We took a 727 Portland to Boston...
Curt Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android On Sat, Dec 4, 2021 at 2:37 PM, Allan Streib via Mercedes<mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: L-1011 was very advanced for its time. I believe it was the first commercial airliner with auto-land. If the engines hadn't been sole-sourced wirh Rolls Royce they might have been more commercially viable. Sort of wish Lockheed had stayed in the commercial market but the L-1011 was their swan song. On Sat, Dec 4, 2021, at 2:31 PM, M. Mitchell Marmel via Mercedes wrote: > Say what you will about the L-1011 or DC-10, you never got the BSOD. > > Flaming ACTUAL death on a DC-10, occasionally, yes, but that's part of the > fun. :D > > My first attempt to ride an Airbus was in the early 80s; it BSODed and we > hadda switch to a DC-10. Very comfy ride. > > -MMM- > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
