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[–] 51 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

Pilot: Mate I sure love these supersonic transatlantic flights, getting paid for two legs in one day, and I'm we're the fastest commercial pilots in the sky right now. This is a sweet job.

Copilot: Sure is captain, sure is... Hey flight, how are you doing back there?

Flight Engineer: All g-good mate (frantically checking guages and screaming internally in engineer)

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago

    From what I've been told, the Concorde went more junior than one would think. Instead of a leisurely ~6 hour flight, followed by a layover in London or Paris, you were ripping there and back in a day for half the pay.

    Still would be an awesome type rating to have though.

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  • [–] 34 points 9 months ago
    [–] 26 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    This got guages for its guages

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  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I was so worried that seat was fixed and you had to have your face jammed up against all the gauges and switches, just arching your back as much as possible, but there looks to be a track in the floor, phew!

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    Yeah, I believe this is "stowed position". Pilots go to the front, then the engineers that watch all those dials and move the fiddly bits pull the seat back and strap in.

    Reverse procedure to relive pilot bladder.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    Hey, what does that little switch do?

    This one?

    No, no. The other one.

    This one?

    No. Up. Up. Look, see where your hand is? Not there. Yes! That one right there! What does it do?

    No idea.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    That's too many things.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I wonder if the pilot’s hat is still wedged between the bulkheads

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago

    For anyone who hasn’t heard this one: When the Concorde flew at supersonic speeds, the airframe got hot enough that it expanded about a foot longer than it was on the ground. This opened up a small gap between the flight engineer’s console and the rear bulkhead of the cockpit. On each plane’s final flight, the flight engineers stuffed their hats into the gap, which then closed up after cooling off.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I think one of those buttons turns on GLaDOS.

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    The pioneering days of crypto trading really were something. 

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  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Is this at the Museum of Flight in Washington, near Boeing Field?

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Ehhh captain?

    Yes navigator!

    Many of these gauges are not measuring anything.

    Sometimes it happens when they're frozen.

    Yes, I did what the manual said and I kicked them hard. Now theyre gone and I can see thru the invisible firewall.

    There's no inv......silence.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    It BELONGS in a.. oh wait.

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  • Looks like an ornithopter cockpit lol. I liked the new Dune movies well enough, but there is (was) a lot of stuff in them that was kind of jarringly off. One thing was the ornithopter cockpit with the shitload of modern (our modern) switches that Duncan Idaho had to flip to get started, completely not fitting in at all with pretty much every other example of technology on display.

    I recently saw the first movie again and it seems they had edited that part out, although maybe that was just for the TV version. They had also edited out the exchange where Duncan sees Paul on Arrakis for the first time and says "you look like you've put on some muscle." "Really?" "No." Just a terrible Marvel-style cheap laugh and the movie benefited from not having it there.

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