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Beast from the East #2 inside the Hind

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  • From: Canada / Czech Republic
Beast from the East #2 inside the Hind
Posted by upnorth on Friday, May 13, 2005 6:16 AM
Here's a few cockpit shots of the Czech Hind from Beast from the East #1:


Here's the main instrument console in the pilot's pit


Straight out the pilot's front window


Gunner's position from through the front window

Interesting trivia:
The stenciling on the outside of the Hind is in Czech while the information placards in the cockpit are in Russian.
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Posted by Cobrahistorian on Friday, May 13, 2005 7:45 AM
How they don't get sick looking at that Russian cockpit blue is beyond me!
"1-6 is in hot"
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Posted by Trigger on Friday, May 13, 2005 8:39 AM
That color is very "dental." Or the tile in my grandparent's bathroom.
------------------------------------------------------------------ - Grant "Can't let that nest in there..."
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  • From: Piedmont Triad, NC (USA)
Posted by oldhooker on Friday, May 13, 2005 9:12 AM
Nice close-ups Kevan, thanks!!

(Also, thanks for putting your scratched P-40 in your sig... I looked and looked for it a couple weeks ago, Smile [:)])

Take care,
Frank

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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 13, 2005 9:13 AM
If you read the book, "MIG Pilot" about the Russian Defector Victor Belenko, he explains that the russians did a study and found that color to soothing and relaxing.
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Posted by Cobrahistorian on Friday, May 13, 2005 9:25 AM
soothing and relaxing??!!

I dunno about you guys, but it makes me wanna hurl... or get my teeth fixed, which usually results in me wanting to hurl.....
"1-6 is in hot"
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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, May 13, 2005 8:39 PM
Hey I don't agree either, but hey if its in a book, its got to be true :)
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Posted by upnorth on Saturday, May 14, 2005 6:22 AM
And the two of you are saying bubble gum pink would be preferable? :-)
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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 16, 2005 11:06 AM
Must be great to be able to get that close to that bird.
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Posted by upnorth on Monday, May 16, 2005 2:11 PM
Yep, a real dream come true.

If someone had told me 5 or 10 years ago that I'd have the chance to crawl around in a Hind, I'd be calling the local mental hospital to come take them away.
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Posted by JohanT on Monday, May 16, 2005 2:36 PM
Thx Upnorth, very good reference pics, greatly appreciated!
First pic upper right quarter, is that a LCD screen?

Best Regards
Johan
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Posted by upnorth on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 4:46 AM
QUOTE: Originally posted by JohanT

Thx Upnorth, very good reference pics, greatly appreciated!
First pic upper right quarter, is that a LCD screen?

Best Regards
Johan


Its not an LCD screen Johan, I think its a moving map dispay of some sort. Whatever it is, it certainly isn't the most modern of equipment by the look of it.
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Posted by wibhi2 on Tuesday, May 17, 2005 8:28 AM
Upnorth - thanx fer the interior pix. Yeah, that cockpit color is bit too institutional (as in mental) for my tastes. But I don't have to live in it :0) -> oh wait....maybe I do.

Also hoping to have my trumeter kit shortly from HK so I can do the Hungarian Eagle scheme. (see sentence above)
3d modelling is an option a true mental excercise in frusrtation
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