{"id":277039,"date":"2025-09-02T16:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/lockheed-l-10-11-bigger-dc-10\/"},"modified":"2025-09-02T16:00:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T06:00:15","slug":"is-the-lockheed-l-1011-bigger-than-the-mcdonnell-douglas-dc-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=277039","title":{"rendered":"Is The Lockheed L-1011 Bigger Than The McDonnell Douglas DC-10?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525613\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/lockheed-l-1011\/\"  >Lockheed L-1011 TriStar<\/a><\/span> and <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"3525615\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/mcdonnell-douglas-dc-10\/\"  >McDonnell Douglas DC-10<\/a><\/span> were two of the leading <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255426\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/trijet\/\"  >trijet<\/a><\/span> 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lockheed&#8217;s trijet was outsold by the DC-10 after early engine and certification problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,17802,3773,5224,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-lockheed-l-1011-tristar","category-mcdonnell-douglas-dc-10","category-trijet","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=277039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277040,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277039\/revisions\/277040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=277039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=277039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=277039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}