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Offline Miska

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looking over the side of open cockpit aircraft
« on: March 28, 2010, 08:25:13 PM »
would be nice.

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Re: looking over the side of open cockpit aircraft
« Reply #1 on: March 28, 2010, 10:21:24 PM »
I think you can. The only plane with an open cockpit would be the I-16, and you can move your head position outside of the cockpit (where other planes stop at the canopy).

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Re: looking over the side of open cockpit aircraft
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2010, 11:32:12 AM »
I've had no luck leaning over the side of the F2B

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Re: looking over the side of open cockpit aircraft
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2010, 11:56:35 AM »
You can.






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Re: looking over the side of open cockpit aircraft
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2010, 03:53:42 PM »
You can.

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Leaning over the side means that you can see the insignias on the side of your fuselage.
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Re: looking over the side of open cockpit aircraft
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2010, 03:55:13 PM »
Leaning over the side means that you can see the insignias on the side of your fuselage.
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Re: looking over the side of open cockpit aircraft
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2010, 04:07:37 PM »
Leaning over the side means that you can see the insignias on the side of your fuselage.
Yeah but the OP just said "looking"...not leaning.  :D
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Re: looking over the side of open cockpit aircraft
« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2010, 05:16:24 PM »
you can lean out of the cockpit, nobody said anything about hanging your torso out into the wind to look at your own fuselage. Apples and orange!

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Re: looking over the side of open cockpit aircraft
« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2010, 05:36:06 PM »
Leaning over the side means that you can see the insignias on the side of your fuselage.
Are we talking about wing walking now :rofl I guess we don't need to strap in any more either. Then the next question is why would you want to look at the stitching on the side of your plane?

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Re: looking over the side of open cockpit aircraft
« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2010, 07:25:38 PM »
Are we talking about wing walking now :rofl I guess we don't need to strap in any more either. Then the next question is why would you want to look at the stitching on the side of your plane?
No, I am not talking about wing walking. Tell me that you can lean over the arm rest of your chair, while sitting down, and see what is underneath it, without moving your buttocks from the seat. I may be wrong, but the only type of straps that I have heard that WWI pilots used were the "across the lap" type of belts that you see in the middle seat of the back seat in a car.
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Re: looking over the side of open cockpit aircraft
« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2010, 07:27:56 PM »
Enker, try leaning out your car door and looking at the side of the door.

it's one thing to look "down" around the car to see the ground or whatever, and it's an entirely different thing to look at the door itself.

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Re: looking over the side of open cockpit aircraft
« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2010, 07:38:14 PM »
I have more in mind things like standing up in the observer's seat and looking over the side at an observation target.

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Re: looking over the side of open cockpit aircraft
« Reply #12 on: March 29, 2010, 08:08:25 PM »
I have more in mind things like standing up in the observer's seat and looking over the side at an observation target.
Ahh he was not an observer that thing back there with him was not for looking.

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Re: looking over the side of open cockpit aircraft
« Reply #13 on: March 29, 2010, 08:40:30 PM »
I guess you have not found the "Wing walker " views yet!!

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Re: looking over the side of open cockpit aircraft
« Reply #14 on: March 29, 2010, 08:45:42 PM »
No, I am not talking about wing walking. Tell me that you can lean over the arm rest of your chair, while sitting down, and see what is underneath it, without moving your buttocks from the seat. I may be wrong, but the only type of straps that I have heard that WWI pilots used were the "across the lap" type of belts that you see in the middle seat of the back seat in a car.
Enker, I'm pretty sure that sitting in the pilots seat it wasn't possible for a pilot to lean as far as what you imply:



A rear gunner maybe.
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