Now for some perspective. Sometimes we struggle with the Lucas challenge keeping our Tiger indicators working or wondering if our Temperature gauge is registering correctly. This article helped me in understanding 1965 Sunbeam Tiger electrical issues are quite straight forward really. Can you imagine building this cockpit, installing the wiring looms and then maintaining it all.....let alone flying the thing!! Hope you find this interesting...... upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/68/11th_Bombardment_Wing_Convair_B-36J-5-CF_Peacemaker_52-2225.jpg Subject: The B-36 Cockpit Gauge Maze You will enjoy the 360 cockpit view. Follow the hyperlink The B-36 Cockpit Gauge Maze (360* pic ROTATION). This is sort of like comparing sailing ships to modern vessels. Despite the caption, the R4360s drove the propellers. It was only yesterday. Click on the arrow at the bottom to get a 360 degree view of the cockpit. B-36 Cockpit Gauge Maze The B-36 was a state of the art airplane in its day. The Air Engineer was responsible for starting, maintaining and shutting down the 6 Radial Engines and 4 Jet Engines required to make it fly and mission completed. No modern Fly by Wire or Computer controlled Aircraft involved here. Just straight old manpower, brainpower and the guts to get it done. This is absolutely mind boggling to think about. The 360degree viewing movement by moving your mouse is amazing. This is a 360 degree panorama of the flight engineers station on a B-36: Six propeller-driven R-4360s and four J-47 jets to keep an eye on, plus fuel, pressurization, hydraulics, electrical, and other systems. . Click here: NMUSAF- B-36J Engineer
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