>
>>
>> Better yet, check out the engine instruments for a B-36. There's a
>> fellow two houses west of me who flew those. He began with B-17s over
>> Europe, then B-29s over Japan. Tried and true Boeing man.
>>
>
>Yep, the flight engineer's panel covered quite a bit of real estate. VBG
> I used to work on B-36s as a Bombing Navigation system mechanic. Also
>flew on a few as a non-crewmember inflight bomb-nav mechanic. Those 24
>hour missions were something else.
>Paul in Portland OR
>
I would love to see the engine instrument panel for a Soviet/Russian Bear
bomber. Eight turbine engines, two per nacelle with concentric propeller
shafts so that each engine drives a single propeller independent of the other.
Must be a nightmare to work on.
And then there were the German Dornier between-the-wars seaplanes. One
had a dozen engines on top of the wing, six tractor and six pusher. Yikes!
Chris
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
- Hunter S. Thompson
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