Comments on: 16 November 1970

By: Hartmut Opitz

Hartmut Opitz — Thu, 16 Nov 2023 17:17:11 +0000

My favourite widebody-Threeholer! Best livery on it was PSA with that big smile – look it up on Wikipedia!

By: Bryan Swopes

Bryan Swopes — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 14:34:19 +0000

In reply to Jason Ready. A beautiful airplane, Jason. Thanks!

By: Jason Ready

Jason Ready — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 03:15:23 +0000

I was mistaken, the other ship was C-FTNK – not- TNA

By: Bryan Swopes

Bryan Swopes — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 23:48:46 +0000

In reply to Jason Ready. Thanks, Jason.

By: Jason Ready

Jason Ready — Thu, 16 Nov 2017 22:07:01 +0000

In 1995, I worked as a summer student for charter carrier Royal Airlines out of Toronto (CYYZ).

My primary “ride” was C-FTNI as pictured here (sorry for the long link):

http://www.airliners.net/photo/Royal-Airlines/Lockheed-L-1011-385-1-15-TriStar-100/309023?qsp=eJwtjDEKAjEQRa8iU1tsECy2W2tBCy8wJB9djCbMDLhh2bs7BrvH%2B5%2B3Uixvw2K3VkEjKVjig/ZUWfilNK70RPsUSc4kpXHencMQgl%2B0iJ2a68SGKUZUQ/r7iyTIb4LGXrt7PThArp3pcHSfZq2ZewPGc6Zt%2BwITJi/x

Royal had two of them, C-FTNI and C-FTNA. I concur with everything I read above… an amazing aircraft.

By: Bryan Swopes

Bryan Swopes — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 03:59:37 +0000

In reply to Loren E. Wilkinson. You are absolutely right about that!

By: Loren E. Wilkinson

Loren E. Wilkinson — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 04:32:30 +0000

Anytime a person with hands on experience takes time out to respond personally it always adds the human touch to your blogs. Thanks to you for including them, and to the individuals who take their time to enhance the experience.

By: Bryan Swopes

Bryan Swopes — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 01:48:45 +0000

In reply to Bob Taylor. No, thank YOU, Bob! My father and I both worked at Lockheed Burbank. Dad was the Configuration Manager for the S-3A Viking and the CP-140 Aurora. I was in Tool Control and watched all of the tooling for the L-1011 skin panels being built, followed by the panels themselves. We are a long-time Lockheed family. Tony LeVier was a frequent visitor to my grandparents' home in Whittier, and Mom says that she remembers sitting on Tony's lap when she was little. . . I really enjoy hearing from people who have a personal insight into my posts, and as you might imagine, hearing from Test Pilots really is the icing on the cake. Thanks you for visiting my blog. I much appreciate it.

By: Bob Taylor

Bob Taylor — Wed, 18 Nov 2015 00:24:54 +0000

In reply to Bob Taylor.

Thank You Bryan for the article and remembering the day. It truly was the most fantastic airplane I ever flew. Loved working for this great company and all the flight crews that were involved in flight test, production flight test and flight crew training for this great aircraft. The best thing is I still fly with some of the great people I flew with 46 years ago. WOW!
“It Can’t Get Any Better”

By: Bryan Swopes

Bryan Swopes — Tue, 17 Nov 2015 03:03:02 +0000

In reply to Bob Taylor. The Pegasus launch aircraft, right? Thanks for visiting my blog; I always enjoy hearing from people with a personal connection.