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andy
02-25-2006, 01:16 AM
Found these pics at work a while back. This machine is still up in MSP but has been converted to a DC9.

I believe these pics are about a 1980-1982 vintage.

My apologies to Jarhead... I just wanted to show one of the sims we worked on.
noodles
02-25-2006, 01:28 AM
Afros and bell bottoms! Nope, those photos don't date themselves at all!
The Pirate
02-25-2006, 10:46 AM
the perms and the suit guys are my favorites, and i love that on-board instructor console, man does that bring back memories!!!
reprob8
02-25-2006, 03:42 PM
Afros and bell bottoms! Nope, those photos don't date themselves at all!

1980s ????

That mini-dress and "go-go" boots is more of a throw-back to the days of Laugh In and smoking bananas. Talk about an anachronism...blinkey:
Egyptian
02-25-2006, 04:26 PM
Hell, how long has it been since anyone has seen an ash tray in a sim? Been a long time for me. Last one I saw was the F111-D at Cannon, and they were welded shut.

Egyptian
Simmi
02-25-2006, 04:41 PM
Ha ha... I've been working on one of those this last week and again next week..
DC-9
02-06-2008, 06:36 PM
Found these pics at work a while back. This machine is still up in MSP but has been converted to a DC9.

I believe these pics are about a 1980-1982 vintage.

My apologies to Jarhead... I just wanted to show one of the sims we worked on.

I once flew that sim. I did not like the old Vital visual system it had.
The Pirate
02-06-2008, 06:43 PM
Hell, how long has it been since anyone has seen an ash tray in a sim? Been a long time for me. Last one I saw was the F111-D at Cannon, and they were welded shut.

Egyptian

if you worked at airbus miami, just a couple of years ago, we had ashes and cigy butts and cigars in the trash all the time. tobaaco spit in cups too.rant:rant:rant:rant:rant:rant:rant:rant:rant:rant:rant:
Don
02-07-2008, 11:55 AM
We got rid of one of those last year. Check out the pics as the bay goes from MD-80 to 737-800.

http://web.mac.com/jamessonnier/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html
Ttiny
02-07-2008, 02:48 PM
Andy
I think this sim was at Continental for two years before going up to you guys around 1990, I worked on it. Does it have a SEL 32/77 RTM?
Tim
markovol
02-07-2008, 03:52 PM
I was at NWA in 1989 and it was already there and it had a VAX on it..
The Pirate
02-07-2008, 11:24 PM
vax? man does that bring back memories, pdp11/34, 55, vax 11780, microvaxI & II, good ol' DEC, did it have the RA60 head grinder disk?bump:bump:
Egyptian
02-08-2008, 06:23 AM
Andy
I think this sim was at Continental for two years before going up to you guys around 1990, I worked on it. Does it have a SEL 32/77 RTM?
Tim

RTM, have not heard that for a lot of years. Had them on the CH53s for the Marines back in the early 80s. And the old dish washer 80MB drives. What a bad deal when you crashed a head.

Egyptian
Don
02-08-2008, 02:20 PM
Even worse was when you had a 300mb drive with a head crash. I remember when some moron from mission gen at castle afb put that pack into 3 different drives.

On a side note check out the full motion envelope pics of -800 I took that are posted on this guys website.

http://web.mac.com/jamessonnier/iWeb/Site/Cool.html
Egyptian
02-08-2008, 09:43 PM
At least the heads were easier to change and align in the 300s than they were in the 80s. More heads, but a hell of a lot more space to operate on it. Seems like we had someone do that on a couple of 300s on the old F18s at Sperry in Fairfax a long time ago.

Egyptian