The Secret Is Out

Everyone thinks the reason the TSA requires the airlines to keep the cockpit door closed is for security. Nope! The real reason is demonstrated by the picture above. The aircraft are so advanced now that there are only two levers that actually work in the cockpit. The rest are all for show for when the passengers walk past the cockpit door getting on and off the airplane.

Ok so that's not the reason. The picture does serve a purpose though. It was scanned from an article in Business & Commercial Aviation (best aviation rag out there) for use in a binder I used to cary around with me. The technical problem with scanning photos from magazines is that you end up with a bajillian dots that somehow the eye blurs together and the scanner separates. An easy fix for that is to build the blur back in. A quick Gaussian Blur set very low, through a mask on top and reveal some of the sharpness on selected edges and you end up with a usable image scanned right from the magazine.

Oh... Did I mention that you might want to get permission from the rag before you press the start button on your scanner.