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It's not quite as roomy as the picture makes it seem. The panoramic pic combined with the photo being taken from the right rear area of the cockpit is sort of taking the curve out of the left and right sides of the cockpit wall / windscreen areas making it look broader than it is.
 
It's not quite as roomy as the picture makes it seem. The panoramic pic combined with the photo being taken from the right rear area of the cockpit is sort of taking the curve out of the left and right sides of the cockpit wall / windscreen areas making it look broader than it is.
It's the roomiest cockpit that I know of. If you've got 3 comfy seats, a couple beds, hotplates for meals on the long flights.... that's not your typical airplane.
 
Yeah they are pretty big still. Don't forget the cool bubble dome for the nav to get old-school celestial sightings. I always wanted to stick my head up there in flight, but Army groundpounders don't get many chances to ride in 130 cockpits.
 
Yesterday, caught this shot...

Alaska 73 passing in front of Mt. Rainier, departing SeaTac on the SUMMA7 departure...taken from the Fauntleroy/Southworth Ferry:
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Yeah they are pretty big still. Don't forget the cool bubble dome for the nav to get old-school celestial sightings. I always wanted to stick my head up there in flight, but Army groundpounders don't get many chances to ride in 130 cockpits.

Sort of! In the mid-aft of the cockpit, there is still the sextant port. It's just the mount for the actual sextant, which we don't carry onboard (and only a handful of navs worldwide are qualified to do celestial anymore, they stopped teaching it about 15 years ago). The mount is always there, and we can even open the small 1.5" port hole to the open air (usually to vent bodily gases).

The bubble, however, gets mounted in place of our cockpit overhead escape hatch. We don't carry it onboard- usually it's only installed for air-to-air missions. The view is spectacular up there, though.

This picture actually shows the sextant installed, with the hatch outlined in yellow behind it (which is where the bubble would go).
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