The Lockheed L-1011 has awesome cockpit windows. The panoramic few fore the pilots is outstanding and the individual panes are larger and more accentuated than on comparable aircraft from the same time period. I would say, that the cockpit glass used on the L-1011 was way ahead of it's time.
The cockpit windows on the L-1011 consist of 6 panes. Each acrylic glass pane has it's own de-icing system embedded into the laminate, but on most aircraft the #2L and the #2R window head was disabled. The elevated observer seat is right next to the #2L windows and gives the observer an awesome view out the cockpit.
Each window pane has a unique shape and consists of laminated acrylic glass panes with a gas filled insulator layer between the outer and inner glass panes. The largest single panes are the forward facing panes for the captain and the first officer.
The glass panes are uniquely shaped and of varying thickness to provide zero distortion, even on the forward facing panes that have a significant curvature to them.
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