Up close and personal with DC-7 tankers: the cockpit

I don’t know about you, but I have always been interested in airplane cockpits. When I have flown on commercial flights, I often will sneak a pike in the cockpit as I am boarding the flight. My intent here is to present some of Larry’s photographs of the cockpit of his tanker, T-62, along with some selected DC-7 manual pages that Larry had on file in his working computer.

What I have done, with Larry’s assistance, is to take the graphic and numeric key of a typical DC-7 cockpit arrangement (prior to conversion to its current use as a tanker) and match up some of Larry’s cockpit photos with the numeric key for the graphic of the cockpit arrangement. First I present the two images of the cockpit arrangement graphics then I present his pictures.

Please don't forget to read the comment after the pictures.

 

 

cockpit (radio stack on left in foreground)

control pedestal (36)

control pedestal (36)

control pedestal (36)

pilot-in-command instrument panel (25)

engine instrument panel (26, above control pedestal)

co-pilot instrument panel (27)

main fire control panel (in 16, above engine control panel)

heater fire panel (2)

upper instrument panel (8)

forward overhead panel (3)

aft overhead panel (1)

As Larry told me recently, "see, I told you it was complicated!"