This is unedited VHS video footage of a Trans World Airlines Lockheed L-1011 Tri-Star flight I took from Phoenix, Arizona's Sky Harbor Airport to St Louis, Missouri's Lambert Field in March 1991. I had previously uploaded to YouTube edited versions of this same L-1011 flight which you can still watch on two separate YouTube videos. This video begins with where the STL to PHX video ends, the Tri-Star cockpit shot. It includes a takeoff shot at PHX of a TWA L-1011. Then we're in the cabin of the Lockheed where we hear the Tri-Star's three engines firing up followed with the taxiing for takeoff. Once off the ground it's mostly views of the aircraft gaining altitude with some shots of the interior and zoom ins of some cities below.
The landing at St Louis is at night, but you'll see a nice shot of the former McDonnell - Douglas plant (now Boeing) with its well-lit signage. And, speaking of McDonnell - Douglas, note the Missouri Air National Guard F-4E Phantom IIs while taxing to the gate.
You'll see and hear a lot of the sights and sounds unique to this long retired widebody airliner. Best of all, no "cow mooing" sound after the aircraft becomes airborne much like what was heard on the video I made of the flight from St Louis to Phoenix on another Tri-Star. Finally, I've included the footage of the connecting flight from St Louis to Chicago's O'Hare Field aboard a TWA MD-80. Hope you enjoy this nostalgic trip down "memory's runway." Video recorded on a then new, enormous (relatively speaking to today's video cameras) Montgomery Ward, Signature 2000 HQ 8x zoom, VHS video camera.
