Replying to @adamshostack@infosec.exchange
@adamshostack I loved the L-1011. Beautiful bird, but they tied their fortunes to the three-stage Rolls Royce RB.211, which was so advanced it didn't work. Drove RR into bankruptcy and they had to be bailed out by Parliament.
Eventually the 211 problems were fixed enough for the Lockheed to take to the skies. But by then the otherwise inferior DC-10 had won.