Jeff Findley wrote:

ferent.

Check out the US shuttle cockpit he

http://www.spaceevent.com/images/des...le_cockpit.jpg

Note the use of many dial type gauges in the Soviet version where the US
version has many linear type gauges.




Here's an equivalent shot of the Buran cockpit:
http://www.buran.ru/images/jpg/end7.jpg
Buran looks more like the interior of a military aircraft, ours more
like the interior of a Apollo spacecraft.
Buran also appears to have moved most of the circuit breaker switches
off of the ceiling and put them above the control panel and on the
cockpit sidewalls: http://www.buran.ru/images/jpg/end21.jpg
While they were busy not copying the Shuttle, they were also busy not
copying certain Shuttle subsystems:
http://www.buran.ru/htm/bighand.htm
One almost expects to see "Kanada" on it, doesn't one? :-D

Pat