Cockpits: Airliners

    Although I don't fly much with passenger planes and I'm no "spotter" hanging around big airports, I must admit that the cockpits of airliners are among the most exciting places for me :-)

    Ilyushin Il-18
    Tupolev Tu-134A
    Tupolev Tu-154B2
    Boeing B737-500
    Boeing B767-300
    Fokker F70
    L-410

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    Il-18

    The Il-18 was the most prominent - and possibly the best - 4-engine turboprop plane ever designed in the Sovietunion (although the Tupolev Tu-114 and Tu-95 was bigger and had a much bigger reach).
     

    Tu-134

    A small twin jet, one of the loudest airliners that still can be seen around here.

    The navigator worked in the glass-nose of the plane. It must have been a great sight from there! (that's me on the picture to the left - the photo was taken at the Museum of Ferihegy Airport, Budapest)
     

    Tu-154B2

    One of the nicest jets of history I think! And I'm not saying this because the first plane I flew with was a Tu-154! It was slick, elegant and fast, went higher than others in its category...

    Too bad that it was loud and very "kerozine-thirsty" too...

    The plane had a very nice autopilot too, that was capable of doing some things that the comtemporary other jets (B-727, early B737) couldn't do. This plane was even better than its designers would thought: the soviets flew it with a crew of five (pilot, co-pilot, navigator, board engineer, radioman - or something like that), but hungarian airline MALÉV operated it with just 3 (pilot, co-pilot, engineer). And than they've made it match the ICAO-III requirements too!
     

    Boeing 737-500

    A much more modern aircraft than the previous ones, but also less exciting ;-)
     

    Boeing 767-300

    The cockpit of a MALÉV Malév B767-300. This cabin is bigger than the 737's so even I fit in there :-) Besides that, the whole thing has a certain "space shuttle" feeling!
     

    Fokker 70

    The mechanics call this plane "tamagotchi" I wonder why..
     

    L-410

    HA-LAO



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