Lockheed L-1011 TriStar Reviews

21 November 2024 12:11:00 Steven LeMieux

Beautiful plane comfortable smooth. Passengers loved them, pilots loved them. flight attendant loved them and airlines loved them one of the best safety records of airplanes built in that era.

10 July 2024 12:07:00 Guest

An amazing aircraft way ahead of its time. Thanks to the decision to fit it with Rolls-Royce engines, about the same time it was a financial disaster. Had Lockheed chosen the GE-CF6 as McDonald Douglas did, it would have arrived on the market at about the same time the DC-10 did.
The L-1011 was a luxury liner without design flaws. Sparing pilot error circumstances, it had a nearly perfect safety record.
Poor engineering decisions (power-plant choice in this case) have been the demise of many aircraft designs that otherwise were promising moneymakers. DC-10 accidents cut their production by 3 or 4 years. A rush to be the first jumbo Tri-Jet led to horrendous design flaws and a large factor in the demise of McDonald Douglas.
I loved the the old tri-jets...all of them, big and small.

10 May 2022 12:05:00 Dan Rouh

An excellent aircraft. Spacious interior and very quiet. Galley being below deck opened up the cabin to being less cluttered. Sad to see this plane phased out so soon!

14 October 2018 12:10:00 Lin zoller

Very much enjoyed flying in this aircraft; wide aisles, comfortable seats with good leg room and plenty lavoratories.

19 July 2014 12:07:00 Anthony Hamilton

1st flight experience ever in a TWA L1011, London Heathrow to New York JFK, July 23rd 1979, beautiful smotth atlantic crossing with the power of the Rolls Royce Rb211 turbos, never forgotten...........