This aircraft needs more attention.
The Aviation Society: On this day…29 years ago
Seen taxiing past the Airport Fire Station on 13th May 1995 is Air Ops (ECU Air) Lockheed L1011 Tristar 100 (c/n 1091), SE-DPX.
The aircraft first flew on 23rd November 1974 and joined TWA as N31024 on 10th December. After just under 9 years the aircraft became N769BE with Hawaiian Airlines on 19th April 1993. Just a year later, on 29th April 1994 she joined Air Ops as SE-DPX ending her career with Nordic East International Airways whom she joined on 11th May 1996. She was subsequently stored at Stockholm Arlanda where she was scrapped in 1998.
Photo and words: Dave Kirkham.
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This is aircraft is saying:
“what?! I never flew for Hawaiian!”
The cop: “Sir, you’re drunk”. LOL
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I think you’re the drunk one 🤣😂
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Dude! Don’t tell them! They might find out! 😂
Nick Hoffmann: Air France (Air Transat)
Lockheed L1011-150 C-FTNA
ORY/LFPO Paris Orly Airport
July 1990
Photo credit Anders Nilsson.
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Happy Three-Holer Thursday!
Wing view from N760DH, a Delta Air Lines L1011-500 Tristar, taking off from Atlanta while another Tristar taxis by. By the time this picture was taken, the venerable L1011 was in its twilight years with Delta, as 777s, 767s, and MD-11s gradually replaced the aging tri-jet. The type soldiered on until the end came on July 31st, 2001, with a round-trip from Atlanta to Orlando and back, operated by N728DA, a L1011-385-1. In true Tritanic (a portmanteau of “Tristar” and “Titanic”, as the big Lockheeds became increasingly prone to mechanical, hydraulic, and electrical gremlins as they aged) fashion, the last leg back to Atlanta departed late.
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Id never fly anything else if by some miracle this ever got added lol
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First pic’s the one that parked in a swamp, right?
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Well that’s one way to say it
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All because of a 2 dollar light bulb.
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And bad crew resource management. Eastern 401’s crew was so focused on that one light bulb that they failed to notice they disconnected the autopilot.
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Agreed. ( x10)
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