Sabrejet Posted November 8, 2011 Share #1 Posted November 8, 2011 Which dial does he look at first!? :w00t: Note WW2 style stripes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uplandmod Posted November 8, 2011 Share #2 Posted November 8, 2011 As long as the cigarettes are close at hand! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted November 8, 2011 Author Share #3 Posted November 8, 2011 As long as the cigarettes are close at hand! Well spotted...I hadn't noticed those! I assume it would have been against regulations to smoke aboard a gassed-up plane? Maybe this was a ground check staged for the LIFE photographer? Still a bewildering array of instruments though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dskjl Posted November 8, 2011 Share #4 Posted November 8, 2011 Looks are deceiving this is like the old TV sets, lots of buttons etc... but only 2 work or matter and there are only three channels and they all shut down at 11PM. Another perspective from my 15 year old son, he tells me there is more technology in my iphone than in all of the Apollo mission combined, I told him the iphone wouldn't exist if it were not for the Apollo missions, maybe I should have just shown him this pic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sabrejet Posted November 8, 2011 Author Share #5 Posted November 8, 2011 I was thinking much the same thing...no "fly-by-wire" back then! Valve technology...but it worked (most of the time!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uplandmod Posted November 8, 2011 Share #6 Posted November 8, 2011 It's a fantastic Picture Sabrejet, Just imagine all the schooling it took to fly these "state of the art" machines! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hbtcoveralls Posted November 9, 2011 Share #7 Posted November 9, 2011 Smoking was common on aircraft with long ranges. I remember that the P2V Neptune I flew in had ashtrays installed. Remember you could even smoke on airliners until recently. Thank god those days are over. Tom Bowers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
45ACP Posted November 9, 2011 Share #8 Posted November 9, 2011 On this side of the pond we call them tubes Saber. I still have some down in the basement. I was thinking much the same thing...no "fly-by-wire" back then! Valve technology...but it worked (most of the time!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cco23i Posted November 10, 2011 Share #9 Posted November 10, 2011 Smoking was common on aircraft with long ranges. I remember that the P2V Neptune I flew in had ashtrays installed. Remember you could even smoke on airliners until recently. Thank god those days are over.Tom Bowers Hell our KC-135's STILL had ash trays in the cockpit until recently. Scott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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