Quite a lot of hits via Google for an image search of this phrase, Chris:
"tupolev bear instrument panel", without the quotes, of course.
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Scott
On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Chris Trask <christrask@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> Better yet, check out the engine instruments for a B-36. There's
> a fellow two houses west of me who flew those. He began with B-17s over
> Europe, then B-29s over Japan. Tried and true Boeing man.
> >>
> >
>
> >Yep, the flight engineer's panel covered quite a bit of real estate. VBG
> > I used to work on B-36s as a Bombing Navigation system mechanic. Also
> >flew on a few as a non-crewmember inflight bomb-nav mechanic. Those 24
> >hour missions were something else.
> >Paul in Portland OR
> >
>
> I would love to see the engine instrument panel for a Soviet/Russian
> Bear bomber. Eight turbine engines, two per nacelle with concentric
> propeller shafts so that each engine drives a single propeller independent
> of the other. Must be a nightmare to work on.
>
> And then there were the German Dornier between-the-wars seaplanes.
> One had a dozen engines on top of the wing, six tractor and six pusher.
> Yikes!
>
>
> Chris
>
> When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
> - Hunter S. Thompson
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