CATHAY L-1011 Super Tristar

Nagoya→Taipei→Hong Kong

[@schnellguy]

I worked at EASTERN for 21 years,got to ride jumpseat a couple of times on the 1011,great airplane,the crews loved them.

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

Beautiful! My Dad made command at CX in the late 80s when he was 32 and on the TriStar. I remember being a kid and just astounded how big the cockpit windows were. You could see the ground and almost the nose gear from the jump seat!

[@warbird747]

I also got my command on that beautiful jet at CX in 1990 at age 33. Best time at CX. L1011 and 747-8 best aircraft I ever flew.

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

@@warbird747 You'd definitely would know the old man then. He did the bus, classic and 744 during his time there, said the same about the 8F. Retired on the 777. A great airline at the time. In the late 00s I looked at joining as an SO and got talked out of it by him.

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

@The_meme_windows2 was a cool time to be a CX brat in the NTs.

[@DavidHill333]

L 1011, Best aircraft ever built. So much fun as a passenger in that plane.

[@badass6.0powerstroke10]

The "Super" TriStar. They were all Super !

[@MrNorthernRed]

The L1011 had it all over the DC-10. Lockheed, as usual, built the absolute best aircraft the technology of the day made possible, while Douglas cut corners to beat them to market with an inferior product. The TriStar had it all: beauty, speed, comfort & safety on wings- a truly classic airliner. Sad to see the number of active L1011s is rapidly dwindling.

[@TheWuschelMUC]

Meanwhile there is only one TriStar left: the StarGazer.

[@aboodcraft8385]

All retired tristars shall be fixed, and take to the skies again

[@toyotasupra174]

Worst mistake was trusting the damn europoor company rolls royce, ge and pw had been been building better engines at that time but lockheed didn't choose them and payed the price

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

Awesome mate thanks so much for uploading. My old man got command on the TriStar at CX in '89 and still flies their 777s. I've got a gold tie clip of the Tristar Sir Swire gave him back in the day. Amazing machine and great memories of being a kid on the flight deck!

[@rpa9244]

My one first flight on the L1011 was from DFW to San Diego. Was headed to boot camp. Flew back out of LAX, again on the L1011. These would be my only flights on this beautiful aircraft.

[@Faidelar]

Flew on CX711 from HKG to SIN back in 1978 and got a jump seat. The center console had a TV screen showing the flight path between two points and dotted line showing location of A/C. That's very high tech back in the 70s. Thanks for posting this video - really brings back memories.

[@arminparekh6355]

This is a very-beautiful video. So is the plane.

[@garethrees100]

The best looking plane I think

[@Richard-dg7bf]

Love the big overhead hairdryer lol

[@Sams911]

@trent8002003 As someone who's flown the MD11 and been in the jump seat often on the L1011... I wholly agree... The Tristar was the most advanced of the 1970's jumbo's.. and it was fast and had good range.

[@loaferguy73]

Love it, love the sounds the RB211-22b makes!

[@pacific707]

The L1011, was an awesome and beautiful plane!

[@blueskiesflyer]

imo Tristar is the most gorgeous aircraft ever made, so sad that its days are long gone :(

[@ewooll]

Most beautiful plane with maybe my favourite livery.

[@chumanho]

What a beautiful airliner!

[@aquaflex44]

I really love the L-1011!......Only got to fly on it once.....Am glad I did......I always wondered how they got the name for it........DC-10......L-1011..........Makes me think of Spinal Tap......."Yeah, but these speakers go to 11!"......Of course, that's abusurd seeing as how the plane was developed LONG before the movie, but I always find it funny!......LOL

[@luchatrokaalvaradoguajardo5185]

ralph que bueno que nos alecciona con ese comentario porque segun algunos pilotos delos dc 10 es un avion estupendo y que volava y vuela muy bien a mi me toco ver el l1011 200 de eastern en cd de mexico 1976 1982 y era muy hermoso y elegante pero me gusta mas el l1011 y el il62m tu154b2 saludos desde apodaka nl

[@schnellguy]

I was working in Atlanta for EA when 401 went down,it was Dec 72 or 73 when that happened.

[@adsempermagnus]

this was recorded in 87' still better quality than many videos today

[@Hennersbass]

Beautiful dependable old bird. For me it always had that little something the DC10 couldn't match

[@greenseaships]

I think what doomed the Tristar was the delays in getting the engines. It put the whole project back and created a gap gladly filled by the DC-10.

[@haroldaranda7532]

Classic jet and livery.

[@swingmanic]

I remember several years back, acquiring a vinyl LP record with an old Quad hifi I'd just bought, featuring playback (ATC and cabin crew conversations) of a Cathay Pacific flight between Hong Kong and Honolulu..I believe they wee offered to first class passengers..I didn't particularly want this piece of memorabilia and I was offered a few dollars for it by a local record shop...I got more than a few dollars for it after auctioning it on eBay and I shipped it to a guy in Germany who was a L1011 fanatic!

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

My Dad is still a CX captain who got command on the L1011 so I've got some great old flight deck pics if you'd like some. Just fix me up for shipping. Back then CX had 11 planes, 7 TriStars, 2 -200s and 2 -300s.

[@rugby86]

amazing! regards

[@chaucibai2]

Lockheed needed to sell 500 planes to break even, but in 1981 announced production would end with delivery of the 250th and last plane on order in 1984. The TriStar's failure to achieve profitability caused Lockheed to withdraw from the civil aircraft busine.

[@Officer79]

Yeahhhh the god old ten eleven. What a time!

[@benalexison9019]

the L 1011 sure makes you think that the boys at McDonnell Douglas got lazy with the DC 10 bu just strapping a third engine on the tail. Lockheed went the extra step for a better low speed control and lowered the third engine the result it flew better and looked better

[@benalexison9019]

thanks!

[@RedLP5000S]

Fuck off.

[@747heavyboeing3]

Lockheed blunder by select ing RR engines. RR was in financial trouble and this delayed entry into the market Douglas DC 10 entered first and never looked back IF only they would have selected P^W or GE engines, it would have been different. Douglas DC 10 was first and outlasted Tristars by decades. FedEx, N550FE is still in service. Delivered to AA in September, 1972. Tristar was advanced but mismanagement was very costly.

[@DYLAV8R]

@Tabby266 i believe they might use some l1011' airframes for new efficient engine platforms, as the tristars are very valuable as if they were not, wouldnt have Delta already scrapped the ones sitting at mojave and victorville?

[@trainskill8882]

very pretty plane !

[@kso747]

i must say that i love the l-1011 over the dc-10

[@warminator1091]

Eastern called them "whisperjets".

[@am1966ath]

Could you please tell me s590602 why do CathayPacific still have flight routings from Hongkong to Japan that go via Taipei?? or THAI Bangkok-Hongkong-Seoul or Taipei..is it to create a second market for the airline???

[@monibstar]

Nice

[@hirokikato3588]

Cool Coloring

[@kj762aa]

SWIRE!

[@artistgmg]

1987 was a good year :)

[@BoeingFE]

Sorry to differ 2300magnum. The L1011 "S" duct DID NOT reduce the thrust of the RB211-22B or the RB211-524 engines. Lockheed were very concious of the possible impact of the "S" duct design and ensured it was, in the L1011, able to allow the engine to produce the same thrust as the wing engines by limiting the angle of the bends and maintaining the diameter.

[@michaelcantor9321]

Still the best Jet of all time is: The Boeing 727

[@IMediaCorp]

Awesome A/C... not to mention its safety record (superior to it's main competitor, the DC10)

[@RedLP5000S]

Okay yeah, but how many tristars flew compared to the DC-10? 🤔😂

[@DYLAV8R]

@Tabby266 lockheed was the company who made the tristar -_-

[@RunTheRockers]

@schnellguy were you there at the time of eastern 401?

[@Zlin0035]

@trent8002003 Not so, the L1011-100 could top 4500nm, and it was increased to nearly 6000nm with the -500, i know, Ive been in a BAW one in late 1990's, from LA to Heathrow :D

[@Bammer2001]

Huh, how did you manage to get the ATC radio calls back in 1987? Was it with a special radio?

[@michaelcantor9321]

Yep Love the Lockheed L-1011. But i also think of all the Tri-Jets around the world, the Whisper jets B727 were the best (especially the Advanced versions B727-277).

[@Kupferstecher2007]

L1011 great plane...flown with it two times...better then every md-11...TRISTAR=BEST TRIJET!

[@trent8002003]

@Zlin0035 Wrong. The Tristar-100 could barely reach 4000nm. The Tristar-200 did little better at around 4200nm at a price of less load. The Tristar 1 was only good for 2800-3000nm. BA never operated any Tristar-100. It only flew the 1, 200 and 500. BA could have flown Tristar 200 from LA to Heathrow with a considerably reduced payload - light underfloor cargo and/or light passenger load.

[@trent8002003]

Had the Tristar been provided with an engine option, the DC10 wouldn't have had a chance. Lockheed should have gotten GE on board as the 2nd engine option.

[@sebastianmarchmain9807]

I road on Cathay's L1011 between HKG and BKK in 1987.

[@Lifeisagame281188]

100% Agree Love the 727 to.

[@kblackav8or]

great airplane

[@flightchannel5937]

Cathay Paciic

[@astronoman11]

hmm maybe its "Super" because it can go faster or something? Or maybe bigger?

[@aroundtheworld-shadialkasi3182]

love it

[@musico81986]

@viceroytennis Poor marketing by Lockheed caused the Tristar to loose against Douglas. Lockheed should of taken commitment orders instead of relying on "interest" of its aircraft. It should of also used two engine choices instead of relying on RR. Shame, the most advance aircraft of its time yet was not given its full credit it deserved! RIP L-1011

[@chuntohk]

Of course the Tristar was the best. Lockheed put everything they knew about aerodynamics into Tristar. That is why the Tristar never crashed due to design flaws. In contrast, the DC-10 family had many accident as there were loads of design flaws in it. It was a pity that Lockheed lost a huge sum of money from L-1011...

[@vettedude418]

y is tht there?

[@aquaflex44]

It says Super Tristar on the tail engine which is why the video is labeled that way.........Why it's Super vs. a regular Tristar is beyond me......I need more research........hehe

[@henrinelli]

interesting....different and very nice noise during the take off unfortunatly i didn´t took a chance to fly in L-1011 but i think that should be very confortable according reported here, AND BOTH DC-10 AND L-1011 SOULDN´T BE RETIRED WHAT A PITY!!!!

[@Cathaydude]

no more of these cathay in these days

[@tequila55rock]

CX531か…懐かしい！

[@trent8002003]

@airboy1997 Not quite. Technologically, the Tristar was superior to the DC10, which was a conservative design. The Tristar was let down by Rolls Royce's late development of growth engine so that a long range Tristar (Tristar 500) to compete with the DC10-30/40 appeared too late.

[@cchris874]

The only Tristar airline I know of that put 10 across in coach. But it was still great service!

[@TheWuschelMUC]

LTU did the same. Moreover, their airliners were all-economy.

[@pelagic6]

S duct is the way to go for a tri jet.

[@realdavidii]

Super TriStar? More like SuperStar

[@trent8002003]

Indeed, the Tristar was superior to the DC10 in every way except one : range. And for that, Lockheed had Rolls Royce to thank. The near collapse of RR denied it the ability to grow the basic RB211 to power a long range Tristar to compete with the DC10-30 until it was too late.

[@lrg3834]

A pity that Lockheed doesn't produce jetliners anymore.

[@gluca90]

GREAT PLANE !

[@GOLTURBO555]

@JET997u so safe thats nobody operate it

[@rfresh1011]

Having GE engines wouldn't have been enough to save the 1011. The reason it lost the race against the DC-10 was one of cost. The 1011 had more standard features somit just cost more. The DC-10 was a cheap aircraft. Only 3 hydraulic systems vs 1011 having 4. Because the 1011 had more features Lockheed couldn't match the price of a DC-10 thus the 1011 was more expensive to buy and operate. I flew it for 5 years when I worked for Lockheed.

[@phillipjoseph8768]

Wish it would have sold better

[@やんすえ]

名古屋か！

[@arminparekh6355]

The four :experts" that have not liked this Cathay-Pacific video should be marooned in the Pacific ocean.

[@pyjamazaq]

I only flew the CX Tristar once, SIN to Kai Tak

[@LOLmusics]

2 people are DC-10 lovers

[@SuperMole666]

wonder if this is the ghost plane. a

[@GoForMarcin]

why best planes in the world actually ends service??

[@trent8002003]

Hmmm......nope. I know it's subjective but most people would agree that compared to the sleek L-1011, the DC10 looks decidedly clumsy and heavy.

[@2300magnum]

Beautiful tail end on that aircraft but that was its flaw. That "S" shaped air duct to the RB 211 constricted that engine to only 80-85% of its max power output. 15% loss of power output from one engine greatly reduces payload.

[@erikaerin]

Are the L-1011 planes extinct just like the dinosaurs?

[@RickardFriman]

Erika Martin Pretty much. I believe the last flew with Royal Airforce, but they are now retired.

[@SonorGeek05]

There's only one still flying in the United States. Orbital sciences corporation is using it for launching rockets, they call it ( Stargazer )

[@LOLmusics]

@super31 Nope, DC-10 crashes better lol

[@yanlau2222]

明天係國泰航空公司生日大日子

[@astronoman11]

LOL

[@Akr-eb6kp]

3発機ならエルテン一択。異論は認めます。

[@ecrdab747]

@omarbearcub why ugly ?

[@xxquiker]

Education- Go get some. Everyone is entitled to their opinion.

[@BogWraith1]

Not when they don't know what they're talking about. You know, like you!

[@SuperR31]

DC-10 looks better