ATLANTA — Nearly 14 years after the bitter ending of Eastern Airlines ... I'll never forget your first flight on that Lockheed Electra out of DCA. E-mail me if you can, just to say hello." ...

Named for the twin engine Model 10 Electra of the 1930s ... when American Airlines and Eastern Airlines came to Lockheed with a request for a turboprop to compete with the Vickers Viscount ...

Our cover of Oct. 7, 1957, showed the first Lockheed L-188 Electra mid-range ... and the four-engine turboprop entered service with Eastern Airlines in early 1959. But a series of crashes in ...

Fitts and Jenkins were both piloting a Lockheed L-188A Electra, a four-engine propellor plane. On the evening of October 4, 1960, Fitts pulled Eastern Airlines Flight 375 out of Logan and onto ...

including Eastern Air Lines, which ordered about 10 aircraft, and Trans World Airlines, which ordered 14. Lockheed continued to refine and enhance the L-1409 series, producing variants like L ...

"I SAW AIRPLANES LIKE THIS ONE COMING AND GOING many times in my high school years,” says Bill Taylor, nodding at the Lockheed Electra in ... Northwest Airlines sent its Electras in and out ...