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Does anyone know about the Have Blue's cockpit?

9,505 Rb2h  3 months ago

This is a question I've had
It seems like there is no picture or physical evidence of what it looked like
It did exist but no one took pictures of it back then
And all two prototypes got destroyed so all physical evidence is gone

These are the only close pictures of it I could find.
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SyjhP.jpg
Only from the front tho
If anyone somehow has a picture of the inside, please tell me.
Even the Tacit Blue has easily avaliable pictures of the inside

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    It's panel was probably taken from either an F-16 or T-38. It was a very small jet.

    3 months ago
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    9,505 Rb2h

    It might still be classified also but i'm not sure

    3 months ago
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    Ssshhhh! Tis a secwet!

    3 months ago
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    not perfect but might help

    3 months ago
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    https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/12/stealth-turns-40-looking-back-at-the-first-flight-of-have-blue/

    3 months ago
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    "We were able to take a lot of off the shelf components from other vehicles," said Burnett. "The flight control system was lifted out of (General Dynamics') F-16 design. The engines were out of the (Northrop) T-38, and the nose gear also came off a T-38. And the main gear were from the F-104, if I remember correctly. The ejection seat was from the F-16." To put it all together, tools were pulled from Lockheed's C-5 cargo plane line.

    The F-16's flight control system was an important piece of the puzzle, because it was a "fly-by-wire" control system. Since the strange nature of Have Blue design would make the aircraft inherently unstable in flight—more than any human pilot could cope with—it needed a "fly-by-wire" control system to make it work. "Because we knew we had a very unstable vehicle, the F-16 flight controllers made a lot of sense," Burnett said.

    The rest of the cockpit layout was decidedly low tech. Aside from the F-16's "side stick" arrangement, the Have Blue aircraft used "a lot of the old-fashioned steam gauges for instrumentation," Burnett explained.

    3 months ago
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    idk, but there might be a write up somewhere that says something like "using the f-16 instrument cluster and the f-5 stick etc" yk what i mean? lots of those kinda aircraft used off the shelf parts

    3 months ago
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    @FlirBlitz ohh. Looks cool.

    3 months ago
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    18.0k FlirBlitz

    @overlord5453 its essentially the predecessor to the nighthawk

    3 months ago
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    I have never seen or heard about this thing. Reminds me of the nighthawk.

    3 months ago
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    i do not have any pictures of it.

    +1 3 months ago