January 18, 2010 A Fresh Look at Cockpit Design with IFR Magazine and Del Fadden

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By Jeff Van West, IFR Editor-in-Chief

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What goes into a cockpit design? IFR magazine's Jeff Van West talks with Del Fadden, who was Chief of Flight Deck Technology during the development of the Boeing 757 and 767. In this extra-long podcast, hear how the engineers made these two planes so similar up front that they share a common type rating and how lessons learned in that cockpit could inform the NextGen-enabled cockpit of the future for big and small aircraft.

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