Thursday, October 27, 2011

History: L1011 Structure Images - Super Guppie


Here are a few images from the archives. The first image below is an image published by Lockheed in the early 1972 showing the massive size of the Lockheed L-1011 fuselage. The metal structure in the image is a full size mock up of the largest diameter fuselage section:


The two images below show the left wing of N1011 and shows the leading edge Slats and the trailing edge Flaps very well. And a really neat historic image of an L-1011 wing being loaded into a Super Guppie.


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