Lockheed L-1011 Tri-Star

This is a picture of one of the best flying jet aircraft ever produced. I was first a mechanic for TWA in Kansas City in the L-1011 hanger. Then I transferred to St. Louis, to the Flight Operations Training Center, to be a Flight Operations Training Specialist (Ground School Instructor).

Then I was hired by American International Airways (Kalitta Air) as a Flight Engineer/Ground School Instructor.

We had 10 of these L-1011-250 Tri Stars. Two (2) passenger aircraft and the other eight (8) were converter to freighters.

I taught systems ground school to the majority of the AIA pilots and engineers.

The autopilot system is the same autopilot system used on the space shuttle. The horizontal stabilizer wing area is the same size as the wing area on the DC-3.

There were only 248 of these aircraft built by Lockheed.

By the way, I am still in NY waiting for Friday, so I can go home.