Apr 212009
Back in 2004, I used my then-crappy digital camera to take these photos of the cockpit of the Boeing 2707 SST mockup on display at the Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, CA. They have a great deal of stuff there needing to be photographed a lot better. Anybody want to fund a trip?
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what strange sticks, how are they supposed to work…?
Ok, if you’ll take a tour at San Diego .
What might you be likely to get – is there any archives to raid around there as well?
Regards,
Barry
> is there any archives to raid around there as well?
The Hiller museum is said to have an archive, though I don’t know much about it or how accessible it is. I used to raid the NASA-Ames technical library with some regularity… then post-911 security restrictions came along, and one day I visited and they’d padlocked the tech report stacks. Feh. Other than that, I’m not sure what else might be in the immediate area.
Robin said: “what strange sticks, how are they supposed to work…?”
My thoughts exactly… I’ve never seen control sticks designed like that before, and it looks like they’d get your wrists tired in no time.
i’m assuming that they’re linked together in some way, behind the panel…
They had better be linked somehow; I’d hate to think what would happen if you moved one to the right and the other to the left at the same time. 🙂
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