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 ...

Four Rolls Royce engines power the giant 747 aircraft, hanging off wings that span about 211 feet—and in the center of the cockpit are four ivory-colored thrust levers, one for each engine.

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.