Eastern Lockheed L-1011 TriStar - "Departure Bermuda" - 1973 

I agree. It was more advanced than the DC-10 and was flown by some of the worlds top airlines.

Yeah they had a Auto Land feature like today's ILS

I flew on the L-1011 a few times. I always thought it was a creaking, moaning aircraft, but in a quirky/lovable sort of way.

My favorite airliner. Always loved looking out the window at the Rolls Royce sticker on the engine.

+Daniel Ramos I liked it too but if that sticker had been GE, the L10 may have done a lot better and Lockheed might still be in the passenger airline business.

Me too. My dad worked there for 33 yrs.

Flew Eastern alot as a kid in the 70s. DC8, 727, DC9, L10-11

So did I. It was a great plane.

Wow...

PSA had the lower lounge. Mother Grinningbird was short lived at PSA. That was a great airline.

+mytmousemalibu As far as I know, the L1011 was very underpowered and inefficient, and efficiency is one of the main factors in determining the successful of an airplane in an airline

+Richard F. Stripe And the delays with getting the RR engines to work properly prevented many sales.

The L-1011 had the RB211's which has become a wildly popular engine. By todays standards, sure, the original series of RB211's were underpowered and inefficient but so were most other engines back then. The original JT9D on the early 747's were the same. However, the engine was first introduced on the Tristar which wore the brunt of teething & developmental issues that most new engines have. And with RR lagging way behind on the engine program, that hurt the L-1011, the damage was done. So I know why it didn't fare well, it's just a shame that's the way it happened.

you have that right I loved the l1011 I was in the cock pit a lot I worked on it a very safe plane indeed about this time flight 401 hit the ground in 1972 all so an l1011 the plane was only 6 mounts old very sad

Yeah, and it was pilot error.

Me too. I flew mostly southern airlines which was my first in 75

Ship or plane? Also sounds like the Boeing 307 Stratoliner

They were AWESOME, even narrow body three holers. Back when you had to fly sideways as FE before upgrading.

I was -6 :)

I have bad news for you if you hate the DC-10, you were on one to Anchorage. Nobody flew the L-1011 to Anchorage in 1977.

+MrHenstep1 Sounds like it was most likely a Western DC10

+RevWillieG that is what it would have been. I loved the DC-10 myself, especially on Western.

MrHenstep1 Our trip started from San Diego then went to Seattle I believe. From there we went to Anchorage. I know we flew Wien airlines to Dillinham Alaska. That was the only time I landed on a dirt runway in a commercial jet. My boss flew a Jet star for a oil company based in San Diego at the time so he knew his jets. I may be off a few years off or it may have been from SD to Seattle that we flew the L10 11 but I do remember him raving about the jet while we boarded it. I definitely flew the tri star on some part of going up or down from SD to Dillingham. Maybe we stopped at LAX but we both lived in SD at the time. I went up there for three summers in the late seventies. and possible early 80's.. Its been too long for me to remember exactly. But I remember that moment clearly while seated on the L10 11 when my boss saying how superior it was to the DC 10. I flew those allot as well on American DC 10's. Just flew back from Fiji yesterday on a AB A330 and its a nice jet but very uncomfortable for passengers. I always pay an extra 100 bucks to get the bulkhead seat so I can stretch my legs.

HiPlains, just guessing, you probably flew a PSA Tristar from SAN to SEA. My father in law flew for Wein until they shut the doors. Merrill Wein's son Kent has a channel on here...check it out.

Old straight-pipe with the ejectors back....

So much history in those old birds. So many passengers, cities, year after year. I worked for a subsidiary of Delta for 10 years, between 1998 - 2008, and got to fly weekly. Delta was the first choice, and I got to fly on the L1011 regularly. A great plane and fun to fly on.

The old birds have a soul and carry many souls along with them. A somewhat haunting experience walking down them empty aisles I am sure.

Oh my gosh, I can't imagine doing that myself. It would kill me to have to take apart/tear down something I dearly loved.

Kinda sad isn't it, Lee?

Sadly, no. Still some DC/MD 10's and MD 11's flying around as freighters, but no 1011's.

stitch16261 Yes, sort of, more info here en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Air_Lines_(2015) One of their planes was leased to trump campaign for pence to use.

TheWuschelMUC actually the Bermuda Triangle goes in a SW direction from the island. Flying to JFK which this plane was (according to other comments on this thread) would not have flown through the triangle. The plane would takeoff in a northwest direction to get to NYC.

+BobEckert56 Isn't that sound dubbed on? It may well be RB211s but not original to the clip. I did a brief stint on RB211 production at Derby in the 70s and would trust them all the way. Always loved flying PanAm L-1011s over to Seattle. They remain the most comfortable aircraft I've flown in.

That wasn't a -500...it was a standard L-1011-1 The number on the nose (307) means it was Lockheed serial No# 1008 N307EA.

Another thing...the aircraft doesn't have the "frisbee fairing" in front of and below the No# 2 engine intake like all -500's had.

The picture quality of this video muddies those details. The standard(8-door) Tristar holds special meaning to me as it was the first time I ever flew: Eastern in April of '80 to Fla Disney World. Sat immediately behind the aft wing door, window seat, port side. The next row of seats was a full doors-breadth in front of me! :) So when I see a Tristar and it's a -500, it's kind of a letdown, LOL