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It cool and all, but it's not all that much more complicated that other military jets of that era. A-10A's, F-14s, older F-15s etc.
Cheers for the linky 🙂
On a related note, I've been playing around with this sim recently.
Lots of magazine racks but no cup holder.
Without being funny, it's remarkably straightforward. Pretty standard fast jet stuff.
No I'd be hopeless but I know what most of the buttons do and the dials 🙂
Pretty standard fast jet stuff
Not sure quite how standard the mach 3.2 spike adjustment dials are, though 🙂
Not a chance, but then again Ive yet to meet a pilot who could do a full engine rebuild on an Gardner 8LXCT .................or make a decent brew 😀
yes
Looks fairly modern to me, I mean one of the dials even has a setting for Ebay.
All you *really* need is the artificial horizon, the airspeed indicator and the altimeter. A compass to know where you are pointing is handy, too. They're all next to each other.
Rachel
mogrim, well quite! 😆
Although it was probably automatic mostly, unstarts were a pretty major hazard with the SR71.
Mig21, Su7 and EE lightning all had inlet cones, so it wasn't [i]that[/i] unfamiliar technology.
knock yourselves out - [url= http://www.sr-71.org/blackbird/manual/ ]SR-71 Flight Manual[/url]
Rachel
eBay dial just to the left of the yellow/black 'drag chute' pull cord is pretty forward thinking
no, not a clue what anything is.
looks bloody uncomfortable.
I still love this report from an SR71 driver....
One day, high above Arizona , we were monitoring the radio traffic of all the mortal airplanes below us. First, a Cessna pilot asked the air traffic controllers to check his ground speed. 'Ninety knots,' ATC replied. A twin Bonanza soon made the same request. 'One-twenty on the ground,' was the reply. To our surprise, a navy F-18 came over the radio with a ground speed check. I knew exactly what he was doing. Of course, he had a ground speed indicator in his cockpit, but he wanted to let all the bug-smashers in the valley know what real speed was 'Dusty 52, we show you at 620 on the ground,' ATC responded. The situation was too ripe. I heard the click of Walter's mike button in the rear seat. In his most innocent voice, Walter startled the controller by asking for a ground speed check from 81,000 feet, clearly above controlled airspace. In a cool, professional voice, the controller replied, ' Aspen 20, I show you at 1,982 knots on the ground.' We did not hear another transmis sion on that frequency all the way to the coast.
Essel, that's the abridged version, but it never fails to raise a smile. I think the term is 'pwned', if they'd had it back then. 😀
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IIRC the controller also suggests that their instruments are probably more accurate than his.
I like the pull handle thing for the drag chute, looks a lot more satisfying than the little toggle switches and dials that most other controls have. 🙂 I am also mildly intrigued by the two blanks to the right of the vertical speed indicator. Something that was removed in a refit maybe?
I am also mildly intrigued by the two blanks to the right of the vertical speed indicator.
The two blanks just above the EGT (Exhaust gas temp) dials?
That's where there should be two red warning lights for a fire in either the left or right engine nacelle.
The plate behind the pilot's left shoulder looks like a cock!
Ground crew servicing notes:-
Cockpit: Ensure all switches are set to OFF, NORMAL or SAFE. Erm.......help.
Oh, and the lazy pilot could have at least put his toggle lamp in the right place 😡
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Sled driver looks like a great read but not at £900!!
No problem I'm a boss at Flight Simulator