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Rare Large Photo (51.75" by 18.5") of Eclipse 500 Instrument Panel

$ 26.39

Availability: 100 in stock

Description

RARE 51.75" BY 18.5" PRINT OF A PHOTOGRAPH OF AN EARLY WORKING INSTRUMENT PANEL OF THE ECLIPSE 500 AIRCRAFT.  MINT CONDITION.  FREE SHIPPING.
A very few copies of this photo were printed for reference purposes during engineering and pilot training for the original Eclipse 500 aircraft.  It shows an early working version of the instrument panel.
This is truly a rare find for an owner of this historic aircraft or an aviation history buff.  The Eclipse 500 personal jet was ground-breaking
in many ways: its low cost of operation, its range and speed, and of course its integration of aircraft systems that has now been
widely copied by designers of both small personal aircraft and large transport aircraft.
This particular print was never mounted in a frame nor on a wall.  I have found one minor "pimple" in the photopaper near the top of the autopilot panel.  It does not show up in the photographs of the print (it is that insignificant).  This print has been stored for the past decade in a protective mailing tube, just waiting to be sent to you.
Trials and Tribulations of photographing this remarkable print.
Wow, was this photo session difficult.  The high gloss surface combined with the very large size of the print made it difficult to place lighting and the camera to minimize reflections and remove dust particles that landed on the print during the session.  To make matters more difficult, the instrument panel has screws for servicing parts of the panel, and to provide a location for future updates - these screws appear to be imperfections in the print (can you see all twelve?).  For example, in the first photograph, a small white spot near the left end of the autopilot "eyebrow" is a dust spot, while the white spot above the ELT control is a screw head.
You might notice that the PFD and MFD displays appear smaller at the top than the bottom.  The camera was intentionally located at an angle to the print to minimize the reflections that more direct angles produced from the very glossy surface of the print.
After a decade rolled up in its protective mailing tube, the print had no desire to stay flat for the photographs!  Books were used as weights at each end and in the middle to tame the tendency of the print to roll up on its own.  These weights were cropped out of the photographs of the print.  Minor local rises of the print paper also contributed to some areas where there appears to be differences in the color, and reflections of light from the paper weights appear to change the color near them.  On the first photograph of the print, the autopilot eyebrow is slightly less gray in the center.  This is a reflection of light from the top paperweight.
Please examine the photographs of this print plus the descriptions.  We want you to know exactly what to expect when this reminder of the progress exemplified by the Eclipse 500 aircraft reaches you.