Hey fellow Legacy builders,

 

Allyson and I have never felt like the cockpit of the Legacy, with its sharp edges and corners, fit with the beautiful lines and styling of the outside.  So, I’ve worked up this cockpit design concept for our airplane that may also motivate some of you to develop your ideas. 

 

Some who’ve seen it say I’m putting Jaguar styling in the cockpit.  Beyond the artistic changes, it also enables installing a throttle quadrant, allows the panel to be tilted forward for access, allows easy panel removal for maintenance, a remote circuit breaker panel on the side wall below the panel (visible and accessible, not pictured), and provides a panel dust cover that fits and incorporates canopy defroster vents.

 

 

Of course, this is taking some time and slowing our build down.  I’m making progress, though, on the parts/patterns needed to make molds for final parts.  The photo below is a few weeks old – the parts are in primer now and mounted to the flanges needed for vacuum bagging.

 

 

 

Allyson and I are leaving tomorrow morning for the Legacy fly in, in San Francisco/San Jose, on Saturday and we’re looking forward to seeing everyone.  We’d also like to hear your ideas for improving the Legacy’s cockpit before we make molds of the new parts.  We’ll also pass on what we’ve learned so far on this little cockpit improvement project for anyone else inspired to put a little “cool” in their cockpit…

 

 

Valin Thorn

Legacy 173