Man Creates $30,000 747 Flight Simulator. By ... What you're seeing is a recreation of a 747 cockpit. It has taken over 8 years to construct, but his time and effort have most certainly paid off.

The outside of the 747 simulator looks like a big, white pod that sits on hydraulic legs. Inside, however, buttons and knobs cover the cockpit, which is modeled after a 747 aircraft's.

Outstanding 747 Simulator. By ... Well hold on one gosh-darned minute, cowboy, because if you strut up to that cockpit half-cocked you're going to look like a cock as you cock it all up.

FlyInside FSX, a Kickstarter campaign focused on bringing VR support to the popular flight sim Microsoft Flight Simulator X, wants to put you in the cockpit of a 747 jumbo jet, Extra EA-300 stunt ...

UPS has 500 pilots based in Anchorage, the domestic hub of its Asia-Pacific network. Its local 747-400 flight simulator is amazingly realistic -- and can replicate almost anything that can go ...

Today, with hindsight being 20/20, we know how the Boeing 747 revolutionized air travel. But that was anything but a sure thing back when it was still on the drawing board in the mid-1960s.