I just received a copy of[ame="http://www.amazon.com/Dyna-Soar-Hypersonic-Strategic-Weapons-System/dp/1896522955/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1240439480&sr=1-1"] Dyna-Soar, Hypersonic Strategic Weapons System [/ame]2003, Apogee Books via UPS which I ordered a few days ago.
Nice! Lots of pictures and technical documents and diagrams, and a DVD with a bunch of test footage and USAF public relations videos. I especially like the photos of the full-size mock-up and and structural items from the factory. I didn't realize that these things ever got that close to being built.
The mock-up had an instrumented cockpit in it, and there are two photos of that, plus a good photo of the cockpit in the simulator that the pilots were training on.
The two cockpits are not the same, but they have some common features, such as a side-stick arrangement and a special CRT instrument in the center which has an energy diagram on it, similar to our own Re-entry MFD, apparently, but a little more graphical. The pilot could choose from dozens of landing sites and the instrument would tell him if he had enough energy to reach them, and how to fly to them, much like the Space Shuttle's GPC programs do, allowing the pilot to choose alternate landing sites in event of bad weather.
If anyone decides to do a VC for the Dyna-Soar, this book is a good reference. Would be awful nice to fly a whole re-entry and landing using authentic X-20 instruments alone.