Is The Lockheed L-1011 Bigger Than The McDonnell Douglas DC-10?

The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 were two of the leading trijet aircraft of their era built with a similar size, range and capacity. However, while the DC-10 did quite well commercially with almost 450 sales, the L-1011 only managed just over half of that figure and ended up losing manufacturer Lockheed billions of dollars due to poor sales.

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