Sunday, February 9, 2014

L-1011 Trainer Installation: Cockpit Shell Design

L-1011 Cockpit Shell Design

Jim Blasco and myself started working on the design work for the cockpit shell. I briefly talked bout this in the previous blog posting but now we have a much  more solid timeline in which we would like to approach this effort. The image above is a composite image showing , in red, the elements we

L-1011 Cockpit Shell Design

The image above shows the current, non-enclosed, state of the simulator at the museum. The image below super-imposes the cockpit enclosure as Jim and I are aiming to build. We have received all of the ceiling panels. We are still missing some of the side panels but maybe with the help from Kerry F. we might actually finally be able to get them!

L-1011 Cockpit Shell Superimposed Shell Structure

Getting this cockpit enclosure right,  short of someone donating us a last minute cockpit cut-off, will be what Jim and myself are focusing on over the next weeks. So stay tuned for a lot more progress updates on this topic.



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