Perhaps you could have a 'sticky' in each forum where 411A can post all his little anecdotes about being an L1011 captain and how wonderful the now defunct airplane once was etc...
Now defunct?
Hardly, for some charter operators who continue to make a handsome profit with the superb product.
I worked on it for years, the issue of how wonderful an airplane it is is entirely subjective, we thought it was an overcomplicated under reliable piece of crap (evidently we weren't the only ones), the tail may have been a work of art but the wings were crap, the toilet design was crap, the hydraulics were crap, the electrics were just plain silly, even the IFE was total rubbish.
Quite strange.
Delta was the largest operator (69 L1011's at one time, as I recall) and a senior VP there told me personally, and I quote...
"The L1011 made more money for Delta than
any other airplane in our fleet, at the time"
FACT.
So, it would seem that those who had only a few, never really learned how to maintain the L10 in the first place.
Why am I not surprised?
Sorry for the interruption, folks, back to the question at hand.