Tag: Aircraft

  • The L-1011 TriStar: Brilliant Masterpiece, Tragic Miscalculation

    The L-1011 TriStar: Brilliant Masterpiece, Tragic Miscalculation

    Featured image credit: FotoNoir Air Lanka’s Lockheed L-1011 TriStars were the aircraft that first pulled me into the orbit of commercial aviation. I flew on them almost every summer holiday between Riyadh, where I grew up, and Colombo, where our friends and relatives lived, from 1995 until the fleet was replaced by brand-new fly-by-wire A330s…