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.
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)
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.
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!
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.
Navigator Magoo, reporting.
You leave your legs outside the cockpit. Everyone knows that, you silly.
Is this at the Museum of Flight in Washington, near Boeing Field?
This got guages for its guages
This part right here is called the Gauge gauge. We use it to approximate how many gauges are here on this control board.
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.
I think one of those buttons turns on GLaDOS.
The switch is for the neurotoxin emitters.
That’s too many things.
The pioneering days of crypto trading really were something.
It BELONGS in a… oh wait.
I wonder if the pilot’s hat is still wedged between the bulkheads
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.
