The L-1011 was probably the best of that generation, sadly it never sold as well as the DC-10, which was NOT the best of that generation.
Beautiful aircraft, and I've heard it was nice to fly as well. On Dec 4, 2021, at 4:54 PM, dan penoff.com via Mercedes wrote: > I flew on N194AT and N163AT frequently in the early half of the 1980s as a > member of a “Ambassadair”, later known as “ATA” when it was a private travel > club. One was a -100 variant, the other a -500 model. Both of these were used > for international and long-haul domestic flights as well as charters. There > was a third L-1011 in their fleet but I don’t have pictures of it. I think it > was destroyed in a ground fire in the late 80s. > > My Mom did many, many hours in these as she traveled extensively with them > overseas. They had at least one DC-10 I know she flew in with them as well, > they might have had more, I don’t recall. > > They were wonderful aircraft, and really impressive when you were standing > next to them out on the tarmac. > > -D > >> On Dec 4, 2021, at 1:33 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes >> <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: >> >> 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 >> > _______________________________________ > 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
