L-1011 TriStar and The Lockheed Story
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Characteristics
| ISBN-13 | 978-0816866502 |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8168-6650-3 |
| Book cover finish(es) | Hardcover ( rounded spine binding ) |
| Special Features | Dust Jacket |
| Condition | Good |
| Author(s) | Douglas J. Ingells |
| Publisher | Aero Publishers, Inc. |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Published date | 1973 |
| Language(s) | English |
| Size | 19 x 28 x 2.1 cm |
| Categorie(s) | • APPAREILS - CONSTRUCTEURS • AVIATION CIVILE |
Description
L-1011 Tri Star and The Lockheed Story is one of the great sagas of the sky, the dynamic history of the Lockheed Aircraft Corporation, aerospace giant of the '70s, and its fabulous L-1011, most advanced technology second generation jetliner in the Spacious Age of flight. It is the story of half a million dedicated men and women—employees at Lockheed at one time or another—and their trials and triumphs in man's never-ending quest to touch a star.
In narrative style the author takes you back to the formative years when the Brothers Allen and Malcolm Loughead (pronounced Lockheed) designed and built the Model-G hydroplane in 1913, first of the line that would make the name LOCKHEED symbolic with leadership in aviation and space technology. YOU ARE THERE, flying with the speed kings and earth-shrinkers... Amelia Earhart, Lindbergh, Balbo, Nichols, Frank Hawks, Roscoe Turner, Jimmy Doolittle, Sir Hubert Wilkins and many others in their famous Lockheeds of the thirties, planes that flew higher, farther, faster to make the Lockheed Winged Star insignia the brightest in the heavens.