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| L-1011 Cabin Interior Lighting from. Engineering Description Series, Lockheed, September 1976 |
Of course for the L-1011 trainer project at the National Museum of Commercial Aviation we are not going to reproduce the L-1011 cabin interior, however, I found this really neat picture of the Lockheed L-1011 interior taken from row 36 looking forward. The picture is out of a 1976 Lockheed publication series covering various design aspects of the L-1011.
The image shows one of the sample configurations of the L-1011 in a high capacity seating arrangement. It also gives a really good idea just how wide the L-1011 is with 10 seats across and and wide aisles. The configuration in the image above shows the L-1011 without center luggage bins installed ... this gives it a very roomy feel ... which in fact the L-1011 really was. This claim for massive amounts of "headroom" was not repeated until the introduction of the Boeing 777.
For its days the L-1011 had really awesome interior lighting that used fully dimmable cold-cathode fluorescent lights, had individual reading lights and individual zone controls.
There were four types of cabin lights: soffit, ceiling, window and aisle lights (and of course, there were also the reading lights).
ReplyDeleteGood point! Thank you for the addition.
DeleteThis is the pink Court Line L1011. Its sister ship, painted yellow, had seat covers to match the exterior as well. I agree with the original poster: the L1011 lighting was pleasing and had a unique feel due to the cold cathode devices.
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