Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
The space shuttle cockpit looks surprisingly old-school. Guess it hasn’t gotten an update since the 80′s.
I particularly enjoyed the Airbus Captain with the Bacardi ID holder around his neck.
There must be something seriously wrong with me, since those pics just made me grin. And I don’t even play a flight sim game!
It takes a while to go through all 100 or so of Tommy’s flickr pages, but it’s worth it.
Think me simple, but there are days when I’d give anything to have a Zivko 540 and be a Red Bull racer. Now there’s a bunch of old and bold types; under 40 not allowed!
But me’za no there yet…
My work ‘puter will only let me see one of the images – the cockpit of the 747.
I’m scared.
I’m with Lex. I loves me some cockpit eye-candy. My kink is ‘pits from aircraft that never quite made it to production. Mmmmm…..XF-108……..
See virtually every US military aircraft cockpit at http://uscockpits.com/
have fun….
“The space shuttle cockpit looks surprisingly old-school. Guess it hasn’t gotten an update since the 80’s”
It has, actually, but that picture was taken in the Space Center Houston visitor’s center. Take a look at the MEDS system, if you’d like. Here’s the updated cockpit:
http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-101/hires/s99_01418.jpg
Real plane have props. That coming from a guy that’s only worked on Jets.
Love the one from the Mustang.
Even the space shuttle (circa 1980) has a control stick instead of a yoke. Silly Boeing “engineers” still can’t figure that one out…
P51 Mustang, Most evocative picture of the lot…source & familiar by-line… TailspinT. Best
Nose: Yes, but think of the poor engineers and the hours to make one simple change, a fact I’ve begun to learn at my work.
Geo,
The 787 will fly point-to-point anywhere in the world. (At least that was the original specs. Turns out it is getting a little heavier, and therefore its legs are getting shorter with each passing day – and it hasn’t even flown yet!) It’s flights will be 15+ hours long. The pilots will hand fly it for about a total of 3 minutes each flight. The other 14+57 will be spent with a useless yoke between the pilot’s legs.
Compare that with the airbus. Sidestick, tray table, crossed legs. Tres’ Magnifique!
It ain’t that hard – hell the French did it!
Nose: That’s true, and I’m sure the engineers in charge of designing and building said yoke have pointed out the “hey, wouldn’t it be better if…” only to hear back one of two things:
“We’ve already qual’d the yoke, any changes will require FAA approval and that will delay us by a year”
or
“Customer’s human factor people have said it’s okay to have something useless there. Yes, they did say it exactly like that. Stop giggling.”
GEO,
I know, I know.
BTW – I’d hate to see the 787 delayed by a year!
787 procedures trainers are in place in our training building. Full flight sim went into the bay last week.
We can theoretically have guys checked out on the jet before it flies!