Spent a couple years (1977-78) at Travis working on 141 and C5A Simulators.
Use to know what all them switches were for. Went to the Air Museum up in
South San Francisco, wandered into a 747 cockpit, was just as lost as the
average civilian.

I would be surprised if there were still 4 in the cockpit these days. What
would they all do? Ah yes, pinochle, AF style (double deck)

tim in san jose

On 5/27/07, Ellen in Oregon <elleninoregon@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> That's a mighty old picture of a C-141 cockpit, John; when I retired as a
> C-141 crewchief 12 years ago, there were lots more goodies, also on top of
> the glareshield : )
>
> I will say this (for my vanagon content) they sure were easier to work on
> than vanagons!
>
> Ellen
> Lola, '85 Vanagon ASI
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
> Reply-To: John Bange <jbange@GMAIL.COM>
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Cockpit of a C-141,              was: Fabricating a radiator fan
> on
> indicator light,              with surprise ending!
> Date: Sun, 27 May 2007 12:58:37 -0700
>
> >    As expected, the LED lit brightly when the fan was energized
> >and  mashing
> >the button forced the fan on. The unexpected result was; as you started
> to
> >drive, air flowing through the radiator made the fan's propeller rotate.
> >This caused the motor to act as a generator and produce voltage, in turn
> >illuminating the LED to about half brightness.
> >    Benefit? As long as the LED glows at any speed above 15mph you know
> the
> >fan's bearings have not bound up! QED.
>
>
> You know, I bet if someone took all the various indicators, switches,
> gauges, and buttons we've all collectively added to our vans and equipped
> one van with all of them, they'd end up with a really cool control panel ,
> like the nav/engineer panel  on the right side of this photo of the
> cockpit
> of a C-141:
> <http://tinyurl.com/2x4ps7>
>
> Personally, that is my goal...
>
>
>
>
> --
> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon - "Geldsauger"
>
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