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Aviation History
1957
1957 - 0475.PDF
w • 477 r" f The simplicity of the Boeing 707 cockpit (above) is largely due to the small instrumentation requirements of the jet engines. In service these aircraft will carry a variety of flight-control systems and aids, but the prototype, shown here, has the Lear autopilot destined for the KC-135. The Britannia cockpit, with its distinctive control-column grips, shows the great simplicity of instrumentation achieved with turboprops. Sperry Zero Readers and Smiths autopilot are here installed. Later Britannias will have the complete Smiths Flight Systems.
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