P-38 Lightning up close #6 - cockpit only by goodoleboy
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It's baaaack!!!! What you've all been waiting for!
Captured 4/4/09, at the semibeautiful Chino Planes of Fame Museum in the semibeautiful Chino Airport in semibeautiful Chino, California.
The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is such a popular feature at air museums that this one had a separate fuselage all set up for a real closeup view of the cockpit controls and instrument panel.
Not exactly the dashboard or interior of your Toyota Camry.
The photographer shown in the bottom photo, with his tons of dollars worth of equipment, is definitely not me, but it does display a position very close to what I took when taking some of my pictures, except I didn't stretch out my arm and camera like that.
A zoom view should help in this instance.
Thankx for the visit, and have a savoir-vivre Saturday.
Comments (9)
Wonderful Work!!!
This is great. I've never had the opportunity to really look at the details of a P-38 cockpit before. Actually, besides the two sets of engine guages, the flight instruments are very simple...the only nav-aid at that time was the radio and the compass. I've flown Piper Cubs in the 1960s with the same basic flight instruments: airspeed, artificial horizon, turn and bank indicator, magnetic compass, gyro compass, and an altimeter. Thanks for posting this A-1 collage.
reaql cool shots of what the polit sees as he fly his plane.
Woo hoo. 4 picture just interial. Excelent sharp capture of so many instruments.
It does look so simple to have been such a blazing fast plane.
Fantastic collage.
700mph on the speedo! I think it would be wings off time by then! But hey, a lot of planes had it. Spit and Mustangs did. Typhoon and Tempest for sure. Tempests were built for catching V1's! This is great! Love it. Do I look like the dude with the gear? NO! One camera, 3 Lens! That's it. Way to go..... Rob.
Oh my, what a dizzying array of dials and gauges...I wouldn't know where to look! Wonderful captures of this complicated dashboard, Harry!
Thanks, man ! Probably the best P38 cockpit pics I've seen Going to put these into good use in a model ------------------------------- Noticed the knob "cocpit heater" HA ! Overstatement of the year!! Those guys always frese their asses off... P