The cockpit will fit only one, so Mr. Piccard will trade legs of the journey with his partner, André Borschberg, an engineer and entrepreneur who was a jet fighter pilot in the Swiss Air Force, flying at about 45 miles per hour for 18 to 20 hours at a time.
Airlines have been ordered to replace or modify the cockpit display units fitted to hundreds of Boeing jets.
In 2001, AL-31F engines with fixed nozzles, an upgraded fly-by-wire controls, and improved cockpit systems were fitted to a Su-37 for testing.
Airplanes would be fitted with reinforced cockpit doors accessible only to pilots, and any attempt to enter the cockpit would require the pilot to radio in and land the plane at the nearest airport.
But he still had not been fitted for the cockpit.
McGehee was fitted for a cockpit seat when he arrived at Indianapolis, and he took 50 practice laps Saturday.
He called for cockpit voice recorders to be fitted to all aircraft, and for the RAF's board of inquiry, which investigated the tragedy, to be replaced by Civil Aviation Authority investigations.
The signals, fitted in the cockpit of the aircraft, would have warned the flight crew that the thrust lever had been pulled back too far, and the propellers had been reversed.
The rear cockpit bulkhead grew a "bulge" to fit the huge HTP tank fitted just behind the cockpit.
We wouldn't call the interior as refined as the Highlander cockpit, but fit and finish is quite high, and given the financing versus the Toyota, we think any SUV shopper would be foolish not to look here.
