Flight engineers station on a B-36.

[Saint in Paradise]

You can move the picture around, see not only the FE position but

also the pilots bit.

 

http://www.nmusafvirtualtour.com/media/062/B-36J%20Engineer.html

 

[EastleighSoulBoy]

Brilliant.

[Pugwash]

Quite a few on that site. The B52's really good as well.

[The9]

I was hoping this might have been submarine based, wondered if we had any posters who might know anything about them.

[CHAPEL END CHARLIE]

I'm a semi regular visitor to a delightfully small and informal aircraft museum near me - Bournemouth Aviation Museum. Unlike some rather more stuffy museums I could name this place actually allows you and your kids to craw all over other similiar aircraft from this era - and I can confirm that many of them do indeed have nightmarishly 'busy' cockpits just like the B-36.

 

Best of all they have salvaged the front end of a old Avro Vulcan - once you have entered you soon realise that only the pilot and co-pilot enjoy the benefit of sitting on ejector seats - which would have placed the rest of the crew in a rather uncomfortable situation in the event of the aircraft crashing I would have thought.

 

Inexpensive and well worth a visit if you are interested in this type of thing.

 

http://www.aviation-museum.co.uk/

[buctootim]

Amazing how much more complex the control were for that bomber than for the manned Mercury space flights. I saw the cockpit in the Smithsonian in DC - smaller than an old fashioned mini and not much more technical.