Ready to fly away from your cubicle yet? Ron Darner, a
longtime CR4er who serves as the newsletter editor for Chapter 320 (Watertown, Wisconsin)
of the Experimental Aircraft Organization (EAA), is ready to take us another
virtual aerospace tour. So fasten your seatbelts, folks. This time, we're
flying with warplanes.
Code One
Here's a link that will occupy hours
of your time, if you let it.
Lockheed-Martin has a (usually) quarterly publication called Code One: An Airpower Magazine. The link
I was sent (click
here) connects to a Special Cockpit Edition from January of 2007. The page
displays thumbnail images of 28 aircraft, ranging from the MB-2 to the F-35
Lightning II.
To view an aircraft's cockpit,
just click the thumbnail image of the plane. The new page that displays
includes a pilot's-eye view of the cockpit, either in color or black-and-white.
There's also a brief description of the aircraft, as well as details such as
the manufacturer, type, number build, first flight, and in-service dates.
For example, if you're
unfamiliar with the MB-2, you can learn that this open-cockpit airplane was
"the first US-designed bomber to be produced in quantity". Built originally by
Martin but also license-build by three other companies, the MB-2 featured a
"large control wheel (that) was the result of the completely manual, unboosted
cable and pushrod control systems of the era".
The Special Cockpit Edition of Code One is the magazine's first-quarter
publication from 2007. The website also has archived editions going back to
Volume 1, Number 1 (January 1986). Only a few articles are available on-line, however,
although the table of contents is shown. In later editions, more or all of the magazine's
content is accessible. Not every article
involves Lockheed-Martin aircraft, either. For example, the April 1993 edition details
the MIG-29 Fulcrum and even has an article about the MIG's designer!
Editor's Note: CR4 would like to
thank Ron Darner for sharing this story. If you'd like to subscribe to Ron's
newsletter, click
here to send him a private message on CR4.
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