This is the cockpit of a Concorde, and it looks both majestic and intimidating.<\/p>\n
Just imagine what it must take to learn what every single one of those dials and knobs does.<\/p>\n
READ MORE:<\/strong> Video shows Concorde achieving sonic boom and producing noise like no other plane<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Concorde is arguably one of the most famous aircraft in the world and yet, strangely, most of us have never seen the cockpit.<\/p>\n It\u2019s been over 20 years since Concorde\u2019s final flight<\/a>, so the only way for anyone to see one is at a museum.<\/p>\n Despite being the state of the art at the time, and arguably impressive even by today\u2019s standards, Concorde\u2019s interior was relatively subtle.<\/p>\n <\/a>Adam Gray \/ Supercar Blondie<\/a>Adam Gray \/ Supercar Blondie<\/p>\n There were no fancy wet bars, no gold bathroom fixtures or anything extreme.<\/p>\n It just consisted of about 100 seats, upholstered in black \/ dark blue leather.<\/p>\n People who have been on Concorde say the seats were super plushy, large and comfortable.<\/p>\n But they weren\u2019t particularly lavish.<\/p>\n <\/a>Adam Gray \/ Supercar Blondie<\/a>Adam Gray \/ Supercar Blondie<\/a>Adam Gray \/ Supercar Blondie<\/p>\n The cockpit is a different story.<\/p>\n The cockpit of any plane is a fruit salad of dials and switches, knobs and levers.<\/p>\n But the cockpit of Concorde looked 100 times more complicated than that.<\/p>\n The first thing that stands out is every surface except for the floor is covered in gauges and instruments.<\/p>\n You\u2019ve got instruments, dials and gauges where the pilot\u2019s and co-pilot\u2019s yokes are, and then you\u2019ve got more on either side of the cockpit.<\/p>\n <\/a>Adam Gray \/ Supercar Blondie<\/p>\n The right-hand side wall stands out.<\/p>\n It\u2019s literally made entirely of knobs and switches.<\/p>\n And there\u2019s an additional reason for that.<\/p>\n Concorde<\/a> required a minimum flight crew of three, with a flight engineer working alongside the two pilots.<\/p>\n It\u2019s easy to see why, though.<\/p>\n <\/a>Adam Gray \/ Supercar Blondie<\/a>Adam Gray \/ Supercar Blondie<\/a>Adam Gray \/ Supercar Blondie<\/a>Adam Gray \/ Supercar Blondie<\/a>Adam Gray \/ Supercar Blondie<\/p>\n Two decades after its demise, Concorde still remains the last passenger airliner that could fly supersonic.<\/p>\n It could take you to New York from London in just three and a half hours.<\/p>\n The good news is several private companies (and NASA<\/a>) are actively working on new projects<\/a> in this particular field.<\/p>\n So hopefully we\u2019ll be able to fly supersonic again soon enough.<\/p>\n The post Everyone\u2019s in awe after seeing pictures of Concorde\u2019s cockpit for the first time<\/a> appeared first on Supercar Blondie<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is the cockpit of a Concorde, and it looks both majestic and intimidating. Just imagine what it must take to learn what every single one of those dials and knobs does. READ MORE: Video shows Concorde achieving sonic boom and producing noise like no other plane Concorde is arguably one of the most famous …<\/p>","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":44688,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[82,72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society","category-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}