P-38 Lightning up close #6 - cockpit only by goodoleboy

Photography • Aviation • posted on May 09, 2009

Open full image in new tab Zoom on image

Hover over top left image to zoom.
Click anywhere to exit.

Members remain the original copyright holder in all their materials here at Renderosity. Use of any of their material inconsistent with the terms and conditions set forth is prohibited and is considered an infringement of the copyrights of the respective holders unless specially stated otherwise.

Description

It's baaaack!!!! What you've all been waiting for! Captured 4/4/09, at the semibeautiful Chino Planes of Fame Museum in the semibeautiful Chino Airport in semibeautiful Chino, California. The Lockheed P-38 Lightning is such a popular feature at air museums that this one had a separate fuselage all set up for a real closeup view of the cockpit controls and instrument panel. Not exactly the dashboard or interior of your Toyota Camry. The photographer shown in the bottom photo, with his tons of dollars worth of equipment, is definitely not me, but it does display a position very close to what I took when taking some of my pictures, except I didn't stretch out my arm and camera like that. A zoom view should help in this instance. Thankx for the visit, and have a savoir-vivre Saturday.

Comments (9)

)

witch_1612

2:12PM | Sat, 09 May 2009

Wonderful Work!!!

)

bmac62

2:46PM | Sat, 09 May 2009

This is great. I've never had the opportunity to really look at the details of a P-38 cockpit before. Actually, besides the two sets of engine guages, the flight instruments are very simple...the only nav-aid at that time was the radio and the compass. I've flown Piper Cubs in the 1960s with the same basic flight instruments: airspeed, artificial horizon, turn and bank indicator, magnetic compass, gyro compass, and an altimeter. Thanks for posting this A-1 collage.

)

jocko500

4:49PM | Sat, 09 May 2009

reaql cool shots of what the polit sees as he fly his plane.

)

babuci

5:48PM | Sat, 09 May 2009

Woo hoo. 4 picture just interial. Excelent sharp capture of so many instruments.

)

skiwillgee

8:32PM | Sat, 09 May 2009

It does look so simple to have been such a blazing fast plane.

)

ledwolorz

3:32AM | Sun, 10 May 2009

Fantastic collage.

)

debbielove

6:02AM | Sun, 10 May 2009

700mph on the speedo! I think it would be wings off time by then! But hey, a lot of planes had it. Spit and Mustangs did. Typhoon and Tempest for sure. Tempests were built for catching V1's! This is great! Love it. Do I look like the dude with the gear? NO! One camera, 3 Lens! That's it. Way to go..... Rob.

)

MrsRatbag

11:28AM | Sun, 10 May 2009

Oh my, what a dizzying array of dials and gauges...I wouldn't know where to look! Wonderful captures of this complicated dashboard, Harry!

proteus2

12:52PM | Fri, 18 September 2009

Thanks, man ! Probably the best P38 cockpit pics I've seen Going to put these into good use in a model ------------------------------- Noticed the knob "cocpit heater" HA ! Overstatement of the year!! Those guys always frese their asses off... P