Lockheed is best known for fighters and space projects, but it once played a significant role in commercial aviation.

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 ...

When Capt. Randall Schmoyer shut down the three Rolls-Royce engines on Delta Air Lines Flight 1949 after landing at Atlanta's Hartsfield International Airport last Tuesday, a bittersweet chapter of ...

Almost 28 years after pioneering the use of nonmilitary air launch for commercial spacecraft with the Pegasus rocket, Northrop Grumman’s one-of-a-kind Lockheed L-1011 TriStar is on the verge of a new ...

When people think of Lockheed Martin, they're not thinking of passenger planes; they're thinking about the multi-national F-35 Lightning II, F-22 Raptor, or missiles and NASA contracts. In terms of ...

A technical marvel but a financial albatross, Lockheed's first L-1011 "TriStar" widebody passenger jet was pictured on our July 20, 1970 cover, nearing completion on the company assembly line in ...

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 ...