fsgregs wrote:Boux and Andrea: Both of your cockpits look neat!!!
Since the cockpit is supposed to be for a hyperdrive spacecraft that can visit any place in the universe, I assume you will be replacing the video displays to show "space" scenes instead of airplane related stuff.
It would also be great if there was a few actual "lights" lit up on the console, if that is possible.
One last suggestion. I realize that windows are supposed to be small in a spacecraft, given that the pressure differences between inside and outside are explosively large. However, if you make them too small ... if the scene is too obscured, then the beauty of Celestial space is reduced. I personally would like to see the central post reduced in width ... say by 30%. It may be required to be thick from a purely engineering standpoint, but it really blocks the view quite a bit.
Just my suggestions
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Frank
Thank you Frank. As you see my cockpit is a heavily modified Shuttle one, while the new Boux's cockpit is from a real Airbus A380 aircraft.
I agree on the central frame, I've already reduced it at about half the actual size, but if you look at the real Shuttle cockpit, it is four times wider.
Here an image of the true Shuttle cockpit:
and, BTW, the Atlantis Shuttle has been refurbished with many new and more advanced cockpit instruments.
I have also decided to slightly increase the windows height, for the reason you say.
Blinking lights? In my image there are many of them, but in the real Shuttle I don't think so.
And for the video displays, It would be wonderful to have a reduced image of what is out of the window, but I fear this will remain a dream (or not?Vincent?) .
We'll have some news in the next days.
Bye soon
Andrea