We're the Military and Airpower Guys of Jonah Goldberg of National Review Online + a stray we found wandering around looking lost. All original material JHD, BHD, JR, WT, and KA 2003-2007 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html Tue, 23 Sep 2008 18:04:45 Z Movable Type 4.12 en Copyright 2008 http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification You guys can play with this one. In what aircraft is this the pilot's office? You guys usually get this in about 15 minutes. Let's see how many still hang out around here.... http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:34:51 -0600 AFSis - You sat in a Cobra cockpit (front seat). There are more gauges and stuff in the lower left corner of a Cobra's panel than there are in a Yak-3's (or MiG anything-before-17's) whole cockpit -- that thing is a daytime-only, stay-away-from-clouds-only, seat-of-the-pants-only, fighter. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55844 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55844 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 20:56:49 -0600 I know it's not an Apache... but that's the first attack helicopter name that popped into my mind. It just looks low for some reason. Reminds me of the helicopter cockpit I sat in on The USS Intrepid. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55838 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55838 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 18:19:22 -0600 http://dangitmorestatesekritsbeinggivenaway!/cockpit/Yakovlev%20Yak-3.jpg [State Sekurity is goink to haff to put comments wit URLs into moderations!!]]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55821 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55821 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:57:42 -0600 Not enough enlargement to see the writing on the guages. I do notice there is no artificial horizon or DG. The rudder petal "center pivot" arrangement looks to be what I've heard described in the Japanese Zero. I don't see a "coffee grinder" radio and the Japanese fighters were known to not have radios. I do not see the "fire through the prop" machinegun receivers that protrude into the cockpit of a Zero. The cockpit is too large for a Spitfire. With the hand brake possibly a Hurricaine. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55820 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55820 Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:42:27 -0600 I'm thinking pre-war, maybe Seversky, maybe a "Multi-Vibrator". The stick-mounted (brake?) should be a good clue, but I'm just guessing. Dan Patterson Arrogant Infidel http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55811 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55811 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 21:08:47 -0600 AFSis - nowhere near enough blinkenlights in there to be an Apache... but now I'm curious enough to go take a look at some early helo instruments. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55799 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55799 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 16:05:53 -0600 Looks a lot like a helicopter cockpit, like an Apache or something. It's a tight fit, and the seat is low. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55793 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55793 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 14:45:35 -0600 http://www.surclaro.com/store/CaptainSim/yak3/3_vc.html Or maybe not..... depends on whims of State Information Commissar.... [Is acceptable. Termination order rescinded. For now.] Must have more speaks with moose and sqvirrell about this affairs. Dostveydonya,]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55787 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55787 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:37:31 -0600 But I now know where there's a color version of that picture... It's at www.@*$%2356q28u2124t mb 'DSF Hey....! Cut that out. It's at www ........................... [We're sorry but your connection has been terminated due to inactivity. Please hang up and don't try again.] :-D http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55785 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55785 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:31:18 -0600 I think John's been taking link-fiddlin lessons from Bill... Dastardly behavior!! Just dastardly. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55784 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55784 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:26:15 -0600 http://www.ohnoyoudon'tgiveawaymysecrets.org/page_01.htm (last page). Even as we speak agents of NKVD are delivering message to come to Moskva and explain how image got posted onto net for all to see. Boris and Natasha are less than pleased with moose and sqvirrel. Nostrovnya,]]> http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55777 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55777 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 12:56:06 -0600 It's british. That's a brake lever on the stick. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55760 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55760 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:50:53 -0600 I dunno, Sam. That doesn't look like the cockpit of a plane made for flying over water to me. No sign of a plotting board or other nav aids, which I know the Hellcat had. I'm better on the outside of airplanes than the insides, save for the handful I've actually looked inside. About all I can tell about this is that it's a single-seat cockpit, which means fighter, observation, or small bomber. I'm not even sure that thing above the instrument panel is really a gunsight. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55758 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55758 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:40:24 -0600 I say Hellcat. http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55757 http://www.thedonovan.com/archives/2007/01/alright_alright.html#comment-55757 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:19:37 -0600