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yahya

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Many years ago a google search returned some amazing photos of vintage cockpits like the ones below. Now, google does not recognize these files. Has anyone came across the original website, which published them and could provide the URL? Presumably, this website it's gone with the wind as of now...
 

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I think the source was not the URLs that you suggested. Presumably the source URL consisted of a database of vintage aviation photos. The filenames of the original images were not changed, BTW. However, google cannot recognize their source.
 
I think the source was not the URLs that you suggested. Presumably the source URL consisted of a database of vintage aviation photos. The filenames of the original images were not changed, BTW. However, google cannot recognize their source.


I see. However I doubt the filenames of the images may be found by the google, especially if these were a part of a database. In other words if you want to find them you have to use the same keywords you used in order the Google can return the results of its searching.
 
Google has a functionality to find the web source of an image file. It generally works fine, especially when the original filename was retained. The only exception seems to reverberate around the said photos of vintage aircraft cockpits.
 
Many years ago a google search returned some amazing photos of vintage cockpits like the ones below. Now, google does not recognize these files. Has anyone came across the original website, which published them and could provide the URL? Presumably, this website it's gone with the wind as of now...

It is amazing how many photos and manuals that I downloaded last century are now "extinct" on the internet.
 
The USAF Museum has a feature where you can look inside some of their airplanes. The B-36 is even more awesome than outside.
 
The USAF Museum has a feature where you can look inside some of their airplanes. The B-36 is even more awesome than outside.

If you meant the website below, the images are undoubtedly cool.


Browsing the files on a couch is much safer than visiting that very cockpit where one can be exposed to dosage equal to multiple x-rays.
 
If you have the site name and the year(s) it was up, try the Wayback Machine at Internet Archive.
I found my (now extinct) Legends In Their Own Time site there; seems to be complete.

The wayback machine did not help.

Guys, I finally found the source of the said photos using ordinary text query in google for the avionics depicted on them: Westin's Classic General Aviation 1940 to 1965

However, some better quality copies of the images from that very website must have appeared in google search, too. I presume their source could be flick. Flick unfortunately has a temperamental function and I am unable to locate them now.
 
What kind and what brand of avionics was the Twin Cessna that you flew fitted with?
 
:) There are guys out there who were also flying these birds 70 years ago and servicing their avionics. Yet, they keep these legacy avionics pieces at home for nostalgia, and even keep them operational to show to their friends.
 
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