cockpit
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This Flight Simulator Recreates the Worst Part of Flying: Being a Passenger
When you hear the words ‘flight simulator’ you probably picture a complex setup involving giant screens and a painstakingly recreated cockpit that gives flight enthusiasts the chance to live out their pilot fantasies without leaving the ground. Alex Shakespeare’s “Alternative flight simulator” provides an entirely different experience: being a passenger on a cramped commercial flight…
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Lucid Air’s User Interface Has Four Screens, Some Buttons And A Bit Of Common Sense
Designing a digital interface that is equipped to handle all of the capabilities modern cars have without simultaneously being a cluttered, overwhelming mess is a challenge, to say the least. Some automakers have gone for the kitchen sink approach of lavishing their dashboards with pillar-to-pillar touchscreens, which might be cool to look at in still…
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What It’s Like To Fly Inside The Cockpit Of An Aeroplane
Video: One of my earliest memories as a kid on an aeroplane is poking in to say hi to the pilots while flying. Obviously that doesn’t happen any more, so just sit in with them through this video to see what it’s like to be inside the cockpit of an Airbus A320 flying across Europe.…
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SR-71 Blackbird Pilot Explains How The Cockpit Works From The Inside
Over the weekend, you saw the SR-71 Blackbird cockpit in glorious ultra-HD.Veteran Blackbird pilot Richard Graham explains how the cockpit actually works in this fascinating video filmed inside the cockpit. Lots of technical words, but seeing him moving around inside that tight cockpit is really cool.