The L-1011 was a BEAST. What a wonderful plane.

Amazing how many flight/ cabin/ ground crew members have such fondness for the Tri-Star. I don't think any other airliner has had so many admirers. RIP, Tri-Star.

Great plane. Great livery.

Flew back in the eighties on Eastern L-1011 to LAX ! Two great meals !!!!!

Third Lockheed aircraft I flew with EAL as a 2nd and 1st officer. Connie, Electra and this beauty. Great video; dream that came true.

God - I miss that sound! The happiest years of my life were as a flight attendant on that airplane. I will always love the smell of jet fuel in the morning:) EAL forever!

She, the L1011, was and still is a great aircraft..

Great airplane! BEST of all the widebodies!

For sheer beauty, no plane can ever be compared with the glorious Tristars!

Worked for Easter Airlines back in the late 80's,L10-11 is still my favorite airplane to work & fly.

That's my favorite airliner and it always looks good with the Hockey Sticks .and I wounder if that one had a ghost on it!

I loved the Tristar's high angle-of-attack on approach and landing. Just awesome.

Beautiful aircraft with equally beautiful paint scheme!!

Total treat seeing the Pan Am 747 at the end of the L-1011s takeoff run

The sound of those RR engines. Beautiful. Absolutely gorgeous bird this here plan!

It was an exquisite airplane. I flew on them many times...nearly always on Eastern.

That pan am 747 at the end looks so huge. Wow

Miss seeing them hear with Delta in SLC. Beautiful aircraft.

What a beautiful sight.

When I lived in Orlando, FL in 1979 I use to park across the freeway from MCO (just north of the airport) and watch the airliners come in for landing, flying right over our heads. Mostly Eastern and Delta L-1011's. And quite a few others (DC-10's of various airlines). Was a great spot for plane watching.

Goodness gracious me, that sound at 1:03 is so fantastic. And now that's what I call a flare!

Flown Eastern airlines l10-11 many times from bwi to San Juan in the 70s. Love that plane and the great service.

In the 70s and early 80s they flew L1011's out of Buffalo. Hearing them climb over the neighborhood was always something you had to watch. That incredible growl was awesome.

My first airplane trip was in an Eastern L1011 from Boston to Orlando to go to Disney as a child. It was probably 1978 or 1979? I was absolutely enthralled with that airplane.

I remember that scheme when was 9''' Awesome'''

Another example of a classic airliner at its finest. This footage is pretty cool and it reminds me of the times that I spent watching such aircraft come and go from a public viewing area near one of Orlando International's main runways. It was just plain fun.

Beautiful lines I love the integration of the second engine into the tail, and the buzzsaw grinning sound goes right through you. Great stuff from the best three holes ever conceived

Thank you for that. What a beauty. Time really flies.

I rode as a passenger in a new Delta Tri-star back in the early 70's. Later, I got to ride jumpseat in the cockpit of a Delta L-1011 back around '98. BY FAR, the best jumpseat ride ever. An incredibly smooth take off. Enroute, I got to observe the crew tweak the plane and actually fly it and trim it. A REAL airplane. The windows were huge and the jumpseat was behind and to the right of the Captain, so my view was phenomenal. The DC-10 jumpseat is nice too -but not as nice. Nice post !

The L-1011 was one of my favorites. Flew on them twice with Eastern, once with Delta, and twice with ATA. I miss those planes.

How I loved my years as an airline stewardess with Eastern Airlines!! Our uniforms were so professional..today’s uniforms are terrible..the hats made the uniform..I still have mine..proudly displayed. What memories!!

I miss those times old school

Nice footage! What a beautiful airplane.

I know my dad at some point worked on this very plane! Wish I had the chance to fly on one.

Beautiful!!

That Pan Am plane looked a little too close for comfort there...but my silver bullet L-1011 beauty was sounding and looking great! I think that's the first one I've seen with the older white tail and the rest silver...! Thank you for this video.♥️

Thanks Ryan for another great EA posting,i worked at EA for 21 years,part of that time was at LAX.

Never got to fly the L-1011 but rode the jumpseat 5 or 6 times. Quiet cockpit, huge windows, old school but oversized instruments and fast! Guys would cruise at .86 or .87. As you can see, very high AoA on final and the cockpit felt like it was 5 stories above the runway when the mains touched down. It had great flying manners. At the time I was an F/O on the 727 and a few of my buddies were flight engineers (S/O) on the Tristar. The large engineers panel was quite automated. They described their job as deadheading between walk-arounds.

This was my grandpa's favorite plane to fly :)

I always loved the L-1011 on Eastern at CLT.....awesome.....RR engines.....never forget it..

Looks beautiful in Eastern colors! I never did get to fly on an L-1011; AFIK, Delta had the largest fleet of them.

Nice video and the Pan-Am 747 in the background was icing on the cake!

Nice heavy landing and takeoff. Miss these jets, at the end of the video two legendary airlines where right their, TWA was missing though. Nice videos.

My career was at TWA. But we swapped one L-1011 Eastern for one of ours seasonally to help even our capacity. So I got the fly the Eastern L-1011 once or twice. It was number 309. Everything was the same on both airlines except the coffee makers and the crew oxygen masks.

BREATHTAKING! However, I'm sure that, if I had been there to see this in person, the smog would have been more breathtaking! It's too bad that this beautiful heavy cannot visit LAX again, now that the air is clearer.

Gr8 footage thanks for sharing

I'm stationed at NAS Pensacola, and when we were evacuated to Georgia last month because of hurricane Isaac, I brought back an interesting souvenier. The USO handed us all sorts of goodies that included playing cards. However, these playing cards were special because they were Eastern Airlines playing cards; the kind that stewardesses would give out.

Huge thumbs up!

This was a fine Airliners,since a child at Cleveland Hopkins,to Miami at my middle age she was always in the air.

geezous! That took forever to accelerate and forever to rotate!! Amazing how efficient engines have become since then.

I havn't seen the tri-star in Eastern Chrome since I was in grade school! Ryan I owe you one SIr!

Love the old-school 'bare metal' liveries! The L-1011 was an engineering marvel with poor market timing. Alas, Eastern...

Whisperliner! Notice the Pan Am 747 at the end of the video.. Two great airlines now defunct. Thank you jimmy carter.

I miss Eastern Airlines.

that day in 1989 i was in boot camp in sandiego,, Just around that time was when Braniff airlines was doing a ton of flight specials,, then Went Belly up Bankrupt, i flew northwest from Sandiego to detroit,, and there were hundreds of people stuck in line,,, UGHHH,,, ON A GOOD NOTE, as a kid in the 70s early 80s , i loved watching these Eastern and Delta ones fly into Detroit metro,, that Silver was easterns Signature ,, American Airlines also used that Silver too ,, Loved it

That flare is insane. Almost got a tail strike

Loved flying on the l 10 11 usually with Eastern, Delta & TWA

It looked prettier when the original livery was done with the UPPER fuselage painted in WHITE. But STILL beautiful!

Damn, talk about flash backs. Classic SW livery and then at the other end of the runway a damned PanAm 747.

It had direct lift control, (DLC) briefly that meant that in landing configuration when the elevator control was moved in the cockpit the pitch, or deck angle of the airplane remained the same, and only spoilers on top of the wing moved up and down to control the rate of decent. It was a wonderful flying airplane!

Loved that bare-metal look

I flew on the L10-11 a few times and remember flying on one about 1993 out of ATL., which was somewhat rare to fly at that time. I remember first seeing them about 1972-3 and were flown for about two decades. They felt like a wide plane. Like the DC-10's, I remember a 3-5-3 seating arrangement. This one seems to lumber into the air amidst the smog of Los Angeles.

Ah yes, the Whisperliner..❤

Look at that LA smog! You can barely see her when she lifts off.

L-1011 the best aircraft .

First auto land wide body airliner.

Good video - keep'em coming !

Pan Am is in the background!

Great airline; great aircraft. I fly on one Easter L-1011 in 1977.....

Great video! :)

The right plane at the wrong time.

The ol' hockey sticks....

I wonder of this flight was Eastern 505 from MIA. I remember my first Eastern Tristar flight was Eastern flight 87 ,MIA-ATL-LAX ,August 11,1983.I saw my first 767 arriving in LAX that night ,it was a TWA 767.

Bela aeronave.Obrigada.

Direct Lift Control is the technical term ;)

Hi Ryan, this footage is amazing, and I’d love to use it to accompany a home video of an Eastern L1011 I plan to post on KZfaq. May I have permission to use this at the beginning and end of my video? Thanks very much!

OMG just made happy in my pants. Miss those days.

Nice job and times yee

They used the L1011s for the ATL and MIA trips.

The smog in LA in November of '89.

Notice at 1:50 airborne express Van now it's FedEx they bought them out.

L1011 EASTERN AIRLINES WILL FOREVER LIVE IN INFIMY

That is not smog,it is mid morning fog it will burn off by noon.The plane is taking off over the coast line,this was taken in nov,lots of coastal fog in southern ca in the winter.

That PAN AM 747 at 1:50...

Smog City, you can keep it

Disappearing into the Smog

Normal looking approach for an L-1011. Has high angle of attack on landing approach. If it were more level, it would descend more. They've looked like that ever since I saw my first one in 1974, and flew on a L1011 roundtrip in 1978.

0:09 that was a Ryan Air.

easterns best plane

* Bounce *

if you went to disney world back in the day chances are you flew eastern!!!

I thought this was late 1989 or early 1990, judging from the Korean Air 747-400 in the background.

That nose was pitched so high its like the American version of the concorde

Could i use this footage for a project i am working on? I will credit you in my video!

put em.back in service replace themax

Eastern's L1011's were powered by Rolls RB-211, and was an outstanding airplane mainly because the airplane was designed around the Rolls engines. My dad flew it at Eastern, also DC9 and B757.

Livery was better when it was all white, or all silver. I did not like the white tail on the silver body.

Southwest 737 and a pan am 747 were my favourite part :)

I know the L-1011 has a very high angle of attack during landing... but to me it looks like the landing on this video shows that L-1011 having a more than average angle of attack than normal.

It was very rarely video