Autopilot systems are now standard components of just about every passenger jet you'll fly in today. They offload some of the more arduous work of long-haul flights and allow the pilot and copilot to ...

Aircraft formerly known as the "Flying Hospital" will be re-purposed as a S.T.E.M. education lab in Kansas City with TriStar History and Preservation.

Discover the story behind the L-1011 TriStar, the plane that introduced groundbreaking technologies, including a unique S-duct engine mount and precision autopilot. Lockheed had high hopes, but delays ...

With the ventral fairing barely visible under the forward fuselage, Northrop Grumman’s Stargazer performed a low fly-past before departing Mojave. Credit: Mark Wagner/Aviation-Images Aviation Week was ...

A Lockheed L-1011 Tristar plane is submerged in the Red Sea in Aqaba, Jordan, on Aug. 26, 2019. The Aqaba Special Economic Zone Authority (ASEZA) in Jordan on Monday sunk a disused commercial aircraft ...

Forty years ago, in April 1972, Lockheed saw its last civil airliner design - the L-1011 TriStar - enter service with launch customer Eastern Airlines. The TriStar was one of several newly designed ...

It took less than a day for aviation buffs to uncover the news. After being mothballed for 15 years in the Arizona desert, an aging jumbo jet with a unique history had been acquired by a Kansas City ...