Cabs, Control Rooms, and Cockpits

[devo]

I've always been fascinated by cabs, control rooms, and cockpits. The more complex, the better! I thought it would be cool to have a thread where we could share pictures of them.

This is a in a John Deere Harvester, got to sit in it (and lots of other cool forestry equipment) at the Oregon Logging Conference a couple years ago...

Anybody else have some neat photos/stories to share?

I meant to put this in Free Parking; mods - could you move it for me?

 

[blue dog]

Logging equipment has come a long way in a short time. That is a impressive machine.

 

[mrb]

i love control rooms. my all time fav is the nuclear plant control room in The China Syndrome (modeled after a real one)

 

[copterdoctor]

cabin of a Bell 204 I was building a dash for... this is during the disassembly.. trying to find pics of the finished product...

By null at 2007-11-29


and a pic of me and my pilot in a helicopter cabin goofing around... does that count?
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=3053746&l=be06b5f38f&id=777464147

 

[copterdoctor]

and here's a link to some cockpits.... included are: Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird (a military jet)
Oasis of the Seas (a cruise ship)
Hydrogen ICE Streamliner (a rocket car)
Grave Digger (a monster truck)
Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner (a jetliner)
Triton 1000/2 (a personal submarine)

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/06/ff_cockpits

 

[jrmylmach1]

Here is one that I used to fly. It is the Citation X. Flew it from 2008-2010. Great plane to fly. Pain to land smoothly though. The second one is a close up of the PFD (Primary Flight Display) showing us cruising at .901 Mach at 41000 feet.

 

[Kevin54]

A lot of our products in that cockpit. As a matter of fact I just finished making the new tooling a few months ago that drills the hole thru the switch covers.

 

[ForceFed70]

I spent my co-op work term in collage working at the TRIUMF facility at UBC (BC, Canada).

The TRIUMF facility houses North America's largest cyclotron (partical accelerator). Was a really cool job. I was in the electronic engineering technology program so I worked for the monitoring and controls division (the electronics that monitored and controlled the cyclotron).

I wish I had a better picture. Here's the only pic I could find. It was a 20'x20' room with huge banks of monitors, guages, and controls all placed in a 270* semi-circle. The room was always dark.

This picture shows 1 bank of monitors and controlls. There were 5 of these total arranged in a 270* semi-circle. Pretty cool but definately dated technology.

 

[maxwedge]

I work in R&D for Caterpillar and there is a lot of cool stuff around...but I can't post any pics or they will fire me..

 

[NUTTSGT]

When I came back from Desert Storm, they let a few of us go into the cockpit of the United 747. No pics but I was amazed at the amount of switches and guages.

 

[JetLinkin]

Here's the one I work in.

 

[JetLinkin]

Here are some better cell phone pics I took on my last trip.

 

[rickycobra]

I would like to say thank you for this thread ever since I was little I love looking at the cockpit while you were entering the plane.

 

[CraigFL]

I like mine simple: