by "someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired)
Published 03/14/2017 at 00:44
by "someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired)
Published 03/14/2017 at 00:44
Tags: Annoyingly Catchy Airline Jingles
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You wish there were still
Wide Ride
TriStars.
"AMC/Renauledge" (n2skylark)
03/14/2017 at 01:49, STARS: 0
Yes. These were glorious aircraft.
"wkiernan" (wkiernan)
03/14/2017 at 07:31, STARS: 0
Think of how many seats they’d cram into a single row if they were still flying those.
"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
03/14/2017 at 10:10, STARS: 0
Oy. Flying an L10 from ATL to New Orleans. Crazy stuff.
"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired)
03/14/2017 at 12:07, STARS: 0
Yep, way ahead of their time. Raised the bar quite a bit - too bad the RB211s were such trouble initially. Airbus probably wouldn’t be as much of a factor if the twin-engined TriStar had happened (a twin was the original plan).
"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired)
03/14/2017 at 12:20, STARS: 1
Widest wide body service. I checked the 1981 OAG - and get this, from ATL to MSY Delta ran two L1011s, two DC8-60s, four 727s, and a DC9 every day. On Eastern you had two 727s, three DC9s and an L1011/A300. I know those were kind of the milk run days, but man that’s a lot of seats to fill.
"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired)
03/14/2017 at 12:21, STARS: 0
What’s wrong with 2-6-2? Especially with those teeny tiny overhead bins.
"f86sabre" (f86sabre)
03/14/2017 at 12:29, STARS: 0
Yeah. They ran 747s from ATL to ORD. No wonder we didn’t hold onto them. Things have changed since then. Lots of focus on right aircraft into a destination.
"The Powershift in Steve's '12 Ford Focus killed it's TCM (under warranty!)" (steve-still-hasnt-wrecked-the-powershift-in-his-12-ford-focus)
03/27/2017 at 15:28, STARS: 0
I used to work with a former Delta operation guy and he said the L1011 was the best aircraft they ever had, when they were functional. That seems to be a common opinion. Can anyone familiar with the design tell me what makes them so great?
"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired)
03/27/2017 at 16:23, STARS: 1
f86sabre would know, since he worked on them, but the word on the street was that they were complex airplanes, way ahead of their time. The way it was described to me was they needed “a lot of care and feeding.” They had an autoland system, a fairly sophisticated control system, more hydraulic redundancy and the mounting of the third engine (with the S-duct) had advantages over the DC-10s/MD-11s. The second message in this thread has a lot of good info that echoes some of what I’ve heard and adds to it in places:
https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/technical/47536-dc-10-vs-l-1011-a.html
"The Powershift in Steve's '12 Ford Focus killed it's TCM (under warranty!)" (steve-still-hasnt-wrecked-the-powershift-in-his-12-ford-focus)
03/28/2017 at 10:16, STARS: 0
Thanks! I was reading your Tenerife post and didn’t realize this one was from two weeks ago. Oops.
"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired)
03/28/2017 at 12:11, STARS: 1
No worries, apparently I need to post more often, but talking about L1011's is always a good thing. I have the official lockheed book and a pile of cutaways I need to scan and post one of these days...