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Christiaan van Heijst is an airline pilot with over a decade's experience flying everything from small turboprops to massive Boeing 747s. Van Heijst is also an accomplished photographer and his ...

While modern commercial aircraft can be hard to tell apart, there's no mistaking the majestic shape of the Boeing 747. Its distinctive hump containing the cockpit and a second-floor seating area ahead ...

Perhaps some extra screens? Maybe some custom controllers? Or would you go as far as to revive a scrapped Boeing 747 cockpit to satisfy your simulation needs?… In the heart of Silicon Valley, a ...

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CMC Electronics has secured Saudi Arabian Airlines, Corsair and Dragonair as customers for the Boeing 747 Classic cockpit upgrade it pioneered with KLM. The Dutch airline became the first carrier to ...

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The cockpit of a British Airways Boeing 747-400 is a beautifully complex place where a handful of analog gauges live side-by-side with digital displays. Among the vast array of system switches and ...