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Monday, September 13, 2010

The L-1011 Advanced Stage I, Stage II and Stage III Cockpit


The following are pictures taken from a 1980 Lockheed L-1011 marketing publication. In this publication, Lockheed showed the plans for the Advanced Stage I, Stage II and Stage III glass cockpit. What is interesting, is that Lockheed never walked away from the concept of the TriStar being a 3 people cockpit. Therefore, even the Flight Engineer station got converted to glass. However, the L-1011 program was canceled long before any oft the Advanced Stage cockpits got implemented. It's sad, it would have been very interesting to see the L-1011 in glass ... but then again, it's the analog charm that I love so much about the L-1011.

Lockheed L-1011, Basic Main Instrument Panel

The main instrument panel below is the classic L-1011 panel as is on display with the Delta Air Heritage Museum here in Atlanta.




Lockheed L-1011, Advanced Stage I Main Instrument Panel

In the Stage 1 variant, Lockheed replaced the instrument cluster and the annunciator filed with two CRTs. Stage I, II and III cockpits all featured the same Advanced Flight Engineer station (see below).


Lockheed L-1011, Advanced Stage II Main Instrument Panel


In the Stage II variant, the L-1011 cockpit start to look very much like the Boeing 757 and Boeing 767. The two center panel displays got augmented with CRTs for the ADI and the HSI instrument.


Lockheed L-1011, Advanced Stage III Main Instrument Panel

Stage III would have been completely glass, except for the standby instrumentation. Each pilot would have had 3 primary displays in addition to the two center panel displays. The Stage III variant also features full color multi-functional weather displays.


Lockheed L-1011, Advance Stage I, II and III Flight Engineers Console

The flight engineers console would have been greatly reduced in complexity. Instead of the vast array of instruments, the console would have been dominated by 3 multi-function displays. The Advanced Flight Engineer's station would have also had significantly fewer circuit breaker.