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Boeing airliners old and new are on display at this year’s Farnborough air show as the US manufacturer celebrates its centenary.
Parked adjacent to each other on the flightline are the latest Boeing single-aisle, the 737 Max 8 twinjet, and its 1960s predecessor, the 727 trijet. The 737 is one of four Max aircraft currently in flight-test. The 727 is operated by Oil Spill Response and is at the show to demonstrate the company's aerial spray capability.
While externally both aircraft share the same classic Boeing fuselage lines, including the nose and cockpit, step inside and the two are very different.
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Four large Rockwell-Collins displays dominate the flightdeck of the 737 Max (above), which like all its predecessors has a two-crew layout. The large displays give it the look and feel of its big brother, the 787, with which shares the display suite. It is also equipped with a head-up display.
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The 727 is a classic 1960s-era "clockwork cockpit" (above). Its three-crew arrangement has a mass of dials, and an engineer's panel on the right-hand side (below). The only digital instrumentation is the TCAS indicator on each pilot's panel.
The one aspect of both cockpits that is unchanged is the glazing, which can trace its lineage right back to the first Boeing jet airliner, the 367-80 "Dash 80", of 1954.
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Source: FlightGlobal.com
