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If you can get to an aviation museum that lets you inside a fighter plane cockpit the variety of buttons and levers is a real delight. Because they’re designed
by paggle 7y ago
If you can get to an aviation museum that lets you inside a fighter plane cockpit the variety of buttons and levers is a real delight. Because they’re designed for a pilot who might be flying supersonic inverted with a Russkie on his 6 every single switch is of a slightly different position or type so they can be distinguished by feel. Dieter Rams would barf but the functionality is perfect.
Also, sitting in a fighter plane cockpit will make you realize how cramped and uncomfortable it is. Not nearly as glamorous as the movies make it seem.
- CamperBob2 7y agoHuh? Dieter Rams would be fine with traditional aircraft cockpit controls. His work was strongly supportive of the notion that form should follow function.
- jansan 7y agoBut Luigi Colani certainly would certainly barf a lot.
- CamperBob2 7y agoYeah, I don't think that Korova Milk Bar motif of his would play well at the Pentagon.
- arethuza 7y agoThat's reminds me of a description of the interior of a Pagani Huayra being like a "Victorian fighter jet": https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/pictures/pagani-huayra-the-steampunk-hypercar-interior-that-will-blow-your-mind-pictures/18/ https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/pictures/pagani-huayra-the-ste...