Friday, March 16, 2012

What do all the controls in an airplane cockpit do?

Someone on Quora asked What do all the controls in an airplane cockpit do? and Tim Morgan wrote 9300+ words explaining the cockpit controls on a 737-600.

"All of them? If you're talking about a commercial airliner, then there's hundreds and hundreds. There are big, fat manuals describing what they all do. But, since you asked, buckle up."

It's really fascinating. Megan Garber at The Atlantic provides The Story Behind That 9,000-Word Quora Post on Airplane Cockpits and it's much shorter.

(via kottke)

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