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Where would one buy an L1011?

submitted by SmallGuyFromBrooklyn to AskGoats 11 monthsMay 9, 2024 14:27:04 ago (+2/-0)     (AskGoats)

It looks like all the good planes are no longer for sale? It was one of the most technological superior planes of the time, and my guess is it was supressed by the other manufacturers


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[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 0 points 11 monthsMay 10, 2024 10:24:15 ago (+0/-0)

Technological innovation has been regulated out of the airplane industry. One example: each new plane gets a new designation that every pilot has to be licensed for at the cost of tens of thousands of dollars per pilot.

[ - ] Fishsticksforever 0 points 11 monthsMay 9, 2024 23:59:47 ago (+0/-0)

MD-11 is superior, but I'd love to have a 727.

[ - ] SmallGuyFromBrooklyn [op] 0 points 11 monthsMay 10, 2024 08:47:51 ago (+0/-0)

Sad that the MD-11 was built at a time where ETOPS wasn't relevant anymore. Im sure even back then Boeing and the FAA were working together, it was just less apparent how corrupt each really was. A sad fact, the combined fatalities of the Whites only built 717 and 727 is ZERO. The 737 diversity fuck up has 6000 fatalities in comparison.

[ - ] FreeinTX 1 point 11 monthsMay 9, 2024 15:40:41 ago (+1/-0)

They aren't airworthy anymore. Except 1, for historical reasons.

A plane that big needs to be making money to make keeping them running worth it, and they can't make the money needed to compete.

[ - ] SmallGuyFromBrooklyn [op] 1 point 11 monthsMay 9, 2024 16:11:56 ago (+1/-0)

But they were bitching airplanes that show what White peope can do when not held back by bullshit diversity and anti White policies

[ - ] Lost 0 points 11 monthsMay 9, 2024 16:49:12 ago (+0/-0)*

Aircraft literally have a shelf life, at a certain point the plane's airframe starts to fail from stress fracture. All the existing L1011's save one have reached their lifespan and the remaining one is basically a limited use specialty aircraft.

[ - ] ilikeskittles 0 points 11 monthsMay 10, 2024 09:36:00 ago (+0/-0)

I’m not sure about what you’re saying. We have B-52s that are 70 years old.

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 0 points 11 monthsMay 10, 2024 10:22:34 ago (+0/-0)

And at extreme cost they occasionally get to fly.

[ - ] Lost 0 points 11 monthsMay 10, 2024 11:12:04 ago (+0/-0)

The Air Force literally has a desert graveyard full of B-52's to pull parts or in some cases entire airframes out of along with the aerospace industry to support those planes.

The private Airline industry has no such reserve of aircraft or that scale of industry support.

Also the B-52's and even the B-1B's are starting to reach the end of their flyable lifespans.

[ - ] ilikeskittles 0 points 11 monthsMay 10, 2024 20:19:42 ago (+0/-0)

The oldest still flying B-52 is 72 years old. My statement still stands.

[ - ] iSnark 0 points 11 monthsMay 9, 2024 14:35:47 ago (+0/-0)