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http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/media/068/SR-71A%20Front%20Cockpit.html (http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/media/068/SR-71A%20Front%20Cockpit.html)
Notice how bloody confined this cockpit is. Oh yeah, you're wearing a "space suit" when you fly this beast!
Yeah, it's amazing - all those analog gauges requiring a human to react or identify status,
small windows with little ground visibility, can't barely move - all at Mach 3.2.
Gonadus Hugeous...
Quote from: Eclipse on September 16, 2014, 01:11:44 AM
Yeah, it's amazing - all those analog gauges requiring a human to react or identify status,
small windows with little ground visibility, can't barely move - all at Mach 3.2.
Gonadus Hugeous...
Remember, you're looking at circa 1960 tech here. The boys in the Lockheed "Skunk Works" designed this bad boy with sliderules.
That right there was always the most impressive thing to me. Looking at the SR-71 the team's visionary skill for seeing not only the present but the future in the design right down to the gauges always leaves me in awe. The SR-71 is a testament to the fact that nothing is impossible.
Quote from: PHall on September 16, 2014, 03:34:17 AM
Quote from: Eclipse on September 16, 2014, 01:11:44 AM
Yeah, it's amazing - all those analog gauges requiring a human to react or identify status,
small windows with little ground visibility, can't barely move - all at Mach 3.2.
Gonadus Hugeous...
Remember, you're looking at circa 1960 tech here. The boys in the Lockheed "Skunk Works" designed this bad boy with sliderules.