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Old 22nd Oct 2014, 11:32
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WIWOL fix

Here you go, especially for those early morning withdrawl symptoms..... enjoy

https://www.haraldjoergens.com/panoramas/lightning/
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Great find Nutty
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There are more here, I am surprised how basic the F117 cockpit is.

http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/vir...r/cockpits.asp

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That's not basic, Nutty. For its time it's normal. BTW, the holes were filled with instruments when it was flying.
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I love the prominent indicator in the SR-71 front cockpit marked "RSO EJECTED"
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Comparing the Lightning cockpit with the others linked by NutLoose, my first impression is how staggeringly modern, uncluttered and efficient it looks.
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The cockpit is that of a YF-117A full-scale development article - it's not representative of the operational F-117A's cockpit.

The operational F-117 looked like this:

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Ahh that's better, I thought it couldn't be full of steam driven gauges..

Especially as something like the Cessna 172 comes fitted out like this these days

http://executiveflyers.com/wp-conten...17LA_Panel.jpg

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Far too complicated Nutty



Perfect !!!
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The B36 Flight Engineer's position in the National Museum looks like a collection of Wurlitzers.
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"Flight Engineer's position"

I think that should be "Flight Engineers' position" - apparently there were two of them. Not difficult to see why.
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