Gary's right though, Lockheed got skunked ;-) in the commercial marketplace
and the L-1011/Tristar was the last of their commercial aircraft
ventures. Delta and TWA had/has lots of them, and they are just now being
phased out of service.
Also, before Boeing absorbed MD, MD also produced a follow-on to the DC-10
called the MD-11, which was purchased by a few airlines. It looks like a
DC-10 with upturned winglets (terminology?) on the end of the main wing
like a 747-400. I know I've seen a Finnair MD-11, and I believe that
Western (purchased by Delta) also had a few MD-11's. However, most MD-11's
were produced as freighters, and they sold quite a few of those until
Boeing killed the plane outright. They just couldn't justify two planes in
direct competition 767 vs. MD-11, and the 777 was on the horizon.
<< Also, the image doesn't look like a fisheye to me. . . .maybe an 18 or
21. Is this info. in the original article?>>
Unless I'm really daft, I don't know of any way to get a curved horizon at
less than space-shuttle altitudes unless you use a fisheye lens. And that
picture definitely has a curved horizon. Not to usurp Siddiq, but I
still have this picture on my photo page if anyone is
interested. Hopefully he will get the how-they-did-it page, but I don't
think it described the lens used, just how they mounted the camera on the
tail. http://www.skipwilliams.com/photo.htm
Skip
At 11/22/99 10:44 AM -0800, you wrote:
Lockheed did not absorb McDonnell-Douglas, Boeing did. The Lockheed
L-1011 Tristar and the McDAC DC-10 were distinctly different airplanes,
competing for the same market. Lockheed gave in first, so there are many
more DC-10s flying now than there are TriStars.
Gary Edwards
From: Morgan Sparks <msparks@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> And, yes it most certainly was a TriStar, not a DC-10.
>
I thought they were the same, just renamed when Lockheed absorbed
Douglas. Was the L-1011 in service by '77? Also, the image doesn't
look like a fisheye to me. . . .maybe an 18 or 21. Is this info. in the
original article?
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Westfield, NJ
skipwilliams@xxxxxxxxx
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