Today, I took a trip to the Delta Air Transport Heritage Museum in Atlanta. The museum has a Lockheed L-1011 fuselage section and cockpit on display (this is all that remains of the L-1011 prototype N1011). Here is how the museum describes the L-1011 exhibit: "Hangar 1 houses a modified Lockheed L-1011 that was bought from the Walt Disney Corporation and cut down to just the cockpit and first class cabin. This particular L-1011 was the first L-1011 manufactured by Lockheed. The cockpit is fully lit with all controls still movable. The cabin is a museum store where Delta memorabilia can be purchased."
All the pictures are panorama images stitched together from a number of shots, so if you see something a little "odd", it's because of the way the software put the image together.
The right hand side seat has a normal seat cushion on it, somewhat atypical for a pilot seat, but not bad for it being on static display.
The friendly museum staff allowed me to take as many pictures and cockpit measurements as I wanted to. Thank you!
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