I've been in the cockpit of a B-1. Very similar I suspect. Except the B-1 had four people and a jump seat. The poor systems operators better not be tall.

Quote from: kerick on September 24, 2023, 09:15:18 AMI've been in the cockpit of a B-1. Very similar I suspect. Except the B-1 had four people and a jump seat. The poor systems operators better not be tall.

A Vulcan cockpit is very crowded.......pilot, co-pilot, AEO, navigator radar, navigator plotter... ......and in theory a step where the crew chief would sit on a placing flight between airfields.  I've been in the preserved Vulcan at Carlisle as an item on a Solway Aviation Museum  visit.    https://www.solway-aviation-museum.co.uk/

I've been in a couple of Vulcan cockpits. It's a LONG way up and TINY. The co-pilot has a major job getting into his eat once the Captain is in place.

I'll be 'flying' the only Vulcan simulator next month as part of my 80th birthday pressie from my lovely daughters, and I'll report back in great depth I have no doubt. 

Quote from: PR19_Kit on September 24, 2023, 10:02:53 AMI'll be 'flying' the only Vulcan simulator next month as part of my 80th birthday pressie from my lovely daughters, and I'll report back in great depth I have no doubt. 

While not in any way begrudging you the experience, I'm seriously jealous! 

In other news, I happened to snatch this from Evilbays Swedish branch today.

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While closely related to the ubiquitous An-12 Cub, the Camp is slightly smaller and has half the number of engines - but each is more powerful. Fun fact - this is actually the type in which Russian weapons dealer Victor But made an emergency landing somewhere in Africa, electing to give away as much of the cargo as possible before being collected by the local authorities, in order to minimise the judicial implications. This episode is dramatised in the film "Lord of War" where Nicholas Cage played But and the An-8 part is played by an An-12 as basically no Camps were available to the production company.

Obviously none of this has any bearing on why I lost self control and bought another big kit, but if you haven't thought about where I am to store it, chances are that Mrs P won't either. Maybe.. 

Quote from: Pellson on September 24, 2023, 11:09:31 AMbut if you haven't thought about where I am to store it, chances are that Mrs P won't either. Maybe.. 

But you keep telling us she's a lot smarter than that... 

Plead the Fifth - or insanity...
 as has been said, "Honesty is the best policy, but Insanity is the best defence."...

Quote from: Gondor on September 24, 2023, 03:44:09 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on September 24, 2023, 12:58:49 AMLucky enough to see Concorde a couple of times and she was definitely a "She", so sleek and shapely. Noisy little so-and-so though.

Quite a lot of femails are, so I have heard 

Gondor

Beat me to it... 

Quote from: PR19_Kit on September 24, 2023, 10:02:53 AMI've been in a couple of Vulcan cockpits. It's a LONG way up and TINY. The co-pilot has a major job getting into his eat once the Captain is in place.

I'll be 'flying' the only Vulcan simulator next month as part of my 80th birthday pressie from my lovely daughters, and I'll report back in great depth I have no doubt. 

Many years ago I was fortunate enough to sit in a B-1B cockpit, which was much larger than I had anticipated. 

As for simulators, I kind of sort of dented a Buccaneer sim a tiny bit.

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Quote from: Pellson on September 24, 2023, 11:09:31 AMbut if you haven't thought about where I am to store it, chances are that Mrs P won't either. Maybe.. 

But you keep telling us she's a lot smarter than that... 

She is indeed. But the last thing leaving man is hope..

Ah, well. I'd better sort myself out and continue building instead.

Quote from: kitbasher on September 24, 2023, 11:20:00 PMAs for simulators, I kind of sort of dented a Buccaneer sim a tiny bit.

There's just GOT to be a good story behind that Dave! 

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Quote from: PR19_Kit on September 24, 2023, 10:02:53 AMI've been in a couple of Vulcan cockpits. It's a LONG way up and TINY. The co-pilot has a major job getting into his eat once the Captain is in place.

I'll be 'flying' the only Vulcan simulator next month as part of my 80th birthday pressie from my lovely daughters, and I'll report back in great depth I have no doubt. 

Many years ago I was fortunate enough to sit in a B-1B cockpit, which was much larger than I had anticipated. 

As for simulators, I kind of sort of dented a Buccaneer sim a tiny bit.

When I was in the Royal Auxiliary Air Force 1986-1997 I had the chance to fly a BAe Nimrod MR.2P, the pilot disengaged the autopilot and let fly it for about 30 seconds, it's really heavy. In the early days one of the officers from the unit worked at Heathrow Airport and was friendly with the British Airways staff so I got to fly a few of their simulators. The controls are a lot lighter but you still have to concentrate hard to keep it steady and not do loop-the-loop with a Boeing 747 or fly under any bridges upside down. Then there's landing, I now know that all landings are controlled crashes, have fun.

Every landing that you can walk away from is a good landing.

Snaffled a Revell Condor airliner off eBay. Sadly it's not the military transport, but one of the Syndicato Condor boxings and they have a habit of warping.

Today I received, from BNA, a Print Scale transfer set.  Hawker Sea Fury Part 2.
Burma, Cuba, Pakistan, Iraq, Netherlands, and a red with white chevrons UK civilian scheme.

If the Tu-144 had not the "engine box" underneath it would be a very nice carrier for a ventral X-20 (a.k.a. Ch-20 and AS-3 "Kangaroo") missile - there's a 1:72 kit of that HUGE thing from Amodel. 

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Quote from: zenrat on September 24, 2023, 05:53:07 AMDoes it have an interior?

I has a cockpit, and as it'll become a "bombcordski", that's all it'll need.  Actually, I might replace the seats with bang seats just to make a point of that..

Why not have a "module/capsule" escape system similar to the F-111 ?