News on the N88ZL cockpit project
Visited Willow Run Airport near Detroit and checked out the DC-8-63 (ex Austrian Airlines). Tried to get #4 fired up for the JT3D sound recordings for the 707 sim but no GPU available… anyway, a great day and a very friendly atmosphere. I am still optimistic to get the recordings at a later stage. At […]
18.02.2022: Today I started the restoration of the cockpit section of D-ABOD: Detailed photographs of every inch of the cockpit Collected all loose items and screws and cleared out the trash Got upset how the workers removed items and panels in the cockpit and how Dechow treated the items (Navigator’s table damaged by them) Removing […]
The cockpit of D-ABOD arrived in Sweden together with Caravelle F-BHRU
Pick up of the Lufthansa 707 cockpit is now scheduled for January 17th 2022 in Hamburg followed by ferry transport a day later. Stay tuned and fingers crossed!
Great news. With help from my brother I was able to acquire the cockpit of D-ABOD Lufthansa 707 built in 1960! This is the very last Lufthansa cockpit in original configuration, and one of the oldest in existence. With all parts and panels I have from D-ABUD and UF (N88ZL) I will be able to […]