L1011 set to arrive at the Kansas City Downtown Airport

[dusttinbound]

I know its not really a vintage aircraft but just wanted to let you all that the Airline History Museum is flying their L1011 to the museum. The L1011 should arrive about 1PM today at the Kansas City Downtown Airport providing nothing breaks on the plane. Might be your last chance to see an L1011 fly.

[Chris Brame]

Photos & video, puhleeze!

[The Inspector]

Yes, please so I can drink a toast to one more of those corrosion hogs leaving the sky forever! I may of helped build them nearly 40 years ago, but I never would get on one to go from here to the front door.

[dusttinbound]

Here is one of the local news reports on the arrival. This link includes video of the landing.

http://www.nbcactionnews.com/news/local/story/Massive-Airliner-Lands-in-Kansas-City/6-wZ-fve3EOdQ3f2KgphRw.cspx

I will try to get some pictures tomorrow.

[Dave Hadfield]

I flew them and I liked them.

(But I didn't have to maintain them.)

Dave

[astixjr]

Bravo! My hat is off to all the people involved in making this happen. I was afraid this deal was dead.

[Gary M]

I know its not really a vintage aircraft but just wanted to let you all that the Airline History Museum is flying their L1011 to the museum.

Nice video! He really put it on the numbers! Must have been a pretty short runway for that type........ (Update: Rwy 19/1 is just 7,000 feet long.......)

Any word if they will put it in an airline paint job? TWA would be nice......

[The Inspector]

Dave,
The folks who flew the L-188 ELECTRA liked them too, it's unfortunate that joy and passion didn't translate to all those who rode in the cabin

[Gary M]

it's unfortunate that joy and passion didn't translate to all those who rode in the cabin

It's funny that you mentioned that. In my early airline days, we once dead-headed on a Delta L-1011 and sat over or near the wing. Our Captain commented about how you seem to be able to hear every pump, motor, gear-drive, clunk, etc until the gear and flaps were up and he was right!

[The Inspector]

The ACM's (air cycle machines) that pressurized and air conditioned the cabin were attached directly to the underside of the first class cabin pressure floor. They had a tendancy to get out of balance very slightly and caused a horrible loud rumble in the expensive seats area (not condusive to repeat bookings I'll bet). Since my crew worked the forward fuselage in the 'jungle' (the area where the sections were built @ good old Plant 10 in Palmdale) we had the task of reworking the mounts and attachments with no other extra help, 'and by the way stay on time with the other work' and engineers who must have been surplussed (and noneplussed) from some other project and thought they had been demoted. They were surly, unhelpful to the limits of toleration, and seemed to relish in devising the most convoluted and difficult solutions to the simplest issue or problem. The slogan 'Look to Lockheed for leadership' was certainly appropriate, it said nothing about building airplanes, just overbearing layers of conflicting and conflicted leaders who were so clueless that we suspected they carpooled because they were all too dense to get to the factory by themselves.

[Roger Cain]

A couple nice pictures of her landing at this website: http://photography-on-the.net/forum/sho ... p?t=819799

[Dave Hadfield]

Passengers? Who cares about passengers?

The front two seats were superb.

Dave

[lotus49]

Dave,
completely agree!
I flew the 1011 for a few years, with Calendonian out of LGW (EGKK)
last 14 years have been the 74 classic and 400 but I still look back fondly on the old Tristar.

Have to admit though I always thought DLC was too smart by half, FL33 and the spoilers up to 7 degree then up and down.
The Autoflight system used it to full effect but I always felt the nose hunted from FL27 to 33 with DLC latched in.
Of course that could well have been pilot induced!
and the DANA failures, hard DANA, soft DANA, fuzzy DANA.
all in all a pretty cool airplane.

I still think of HYD systems as ABCD.

remember the old gouge.
"Boys Can Buy Candy And Beer, Boys Don't Care, Boys Can Buy".
it had some variations but I should probably not type them.
the HYD systems controlling the spoilers from left to right.
I am always amazed I can still remember that all these years later, the only one that has ever stuck with the 74-400 is WetCAT.

To a great airplane, the Tristar.
(too bad about the engines)

[Pat Carry]

Its great they can preserve an L-1011 in a museum. Thats has to be a rarity.