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 [[File:Popular Mechanics - 1928 11 - 746.png|center|500px|alt= At the Right Is a Modern Cockpit, with So Many Instruments They Have Overflowed from the Board: Compass, Bank and Turn Indicators, Drift Indicators, Dual Ignition Switches, Lights, Altimeter, Tachometer, and a Multitude of Gauges Are Among Those Included

An Early Airplane Cockpit Fitted with Dual Control for Training, but with a Dash Bare of Instruments, Where as Even a Student Ship Nowadays Is Fitted with Oil-Pressure Gauge, Water Thermometer, Altimeter and Engine Tachometer; the Early Controls Were Varied, the First Wright Ships Having Two Hand Levers, One for the Elevators and the Other Operating both Rudders and Wing-Warping Controls, While There Was No Rudder Bar: the Curtiss Ships for a Time Used a Shoulder Harness to Work the Ailerons as the Pilot's Body Swayed

The Last Word in Air Liners from Europe; a Twenty-Four Passenger Dornier-Wal Flying Boat ]] 