#FlashbackFriday: Lockheed L-1011 a 15 Hotuna

Tafiya-Jet Tafiya

A cikin wannan shafin na #FlashbackFriday, na yi jerin jigilar jirgin sama na farko wanda na rubuta a kan kamfanin Retro Av8ion Pinterest. Har ila yau, na yi wata wasikar #FlashbackFriday a kan jirgin da na fi so, injin Boeing 747 , watau Queen of the Skies. Kashi na gaba a cikin jerin labaran #FlashbackFriday na hotuna ne na Lockheed L-1011, na cin abinci a kan wannan katako na Pinterest.

An yi amfani da jirgin saman jigilar jiragen sama a tsakiyar shekarun 1960 don kaiwa fasinjoji 250 a kan jiragen jiragen ruwa. Ya miƙa fasalin fasinjoji da suka hada da gine-ginen fuska, ɗakunan kaya masu kyan gani, masu kyan gani, wanda ke dauke da abinci zuwa gidan babban gida ta hanyar doki guda biyu, aisles da manyan kwalliya.

A cikin Afrilu 1972, bayan bayanan shekaru shida da gwagwarmaya - ciki har da kalubale na kwarewa, matsalolin tattalin arziki da koma baya - Kamfanin Lockheed California Company (yanzu Lockheed Martin) ya ba da L-1011 TriStar don kaddamar da abokin ciniki Eastern Airlines. Mota ya kaddamar da sabis tare da jirgin sama daga Miami zuwa New York.

Amma matsalolin tattalin arziki sun yi nasara sosai. Jirgin Jirgin TriStar 250 ne suka samar da Lockheed, kuma L-1011 ya nuna alamar jirgin sama na fasinja na karshe na kamfanin. Amma kamfanin ya fita a kan babban bayanin kula, bayan da ya kirkiro, cikin kalmomi guda daya, "mai basirar iska mafi kyau ya taɓa tashi." A ƙasa akwai hotuna 15 na jet da ta ƙare samarwa a shekara ta 1984.