verticallimit
12-11-2009, 08:20 PM
On 23 November, Frank and I had a great trip to Billund airport / Denmark.
We had received permission from DAT to come into their MD80 cockpit and take all the dimensions of cockpit and panels. We met with Soren from DAT at 9:45 and after we had been registered and checked by the airport security staff, so we could get to the fun.
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/3443/dsc0097a.jpg
DAT was very helpful and we got the aircraft connected to ground power, so all instruments and panels were illuminated.
There was an intense measurement and photography in this small cockpit until about 13:30 o'clock. At thise time, Soren got another task to be performed. Soren then drove us back to my car.
http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/7118/dsc0096.jpg
Frank my friend and Soren from DAT in the cockpit
Frank and I went into the bistro at the new terminal building, here we sat down and a got a bite to eat, With our heads full of figures, we sat there and talked about the fantastic experience, and we can not thank DAT enough that we got access to their cockpit.
In thise last days/weeks we have worked very hard to get our dimensions transferred from paper to computer, this seems also to be a very big task, and it is now that we will find out what dimesioner we forgot to take in the cockpit.
Many data and pictures will come on this site: http://www.md80project.dk.
Frank is currently working on a 3D version of the cokpit
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/1601/dsc0054f.jpg
Just give me the word: "take off" 8-)
http://www.md80project.dk/
We had received permission from DAT to come into their MD80 cockpit and take all the dimensions of cockpit and panels. We met with Soren from DAT at 9:45 and after we had been registered and checked by the airport security staff, so we could get to the fun.
http://img253.imageshack.us/img253/3443/dsc0097a.jpg
DAT was very helpful and we got the aircraft connected to ground power, so all instruments and panels were illuminated.
There was an intense measurement and photography in this small cockpit until about 13:30 o'clock. At thise time, Soren got another task to be performed. Soren then drove us back to my car.
http://img686.imageshack.us/img686/7118/dsc0096.jpg
Frank my friend and Soren from DAT in the cockpit
Frank and I went into the bistro at the new terminal building, here we sat down and a got a bite to eat, With our heads full of figures, we sat there and talked about the fantastic experience, and we can not thank DAT enough that we got access to their cockpit.
In thise last days/weeks we have worked very hard to get our dimensions transferred from paper to computer, this seems also to be a very big task, and it is now that we will find out what dimesioner we forgot to take in the cockpit.
Many data and pictures will come on this site: http://www.md80project.dk.
Frank is currently working on a 3D version of the cokpit
http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/1601/dsc0054f.jpg
Just give me the word: "take off" 8-)
http://www.md80project.dk/