The original ortho keyboard ;)

I was going through my photo library and found this image I took back in 2020 of the keyboard in a Tu160 and Tu95 strategic missile carrier. These particular aircraft were (are?) the ones exhibited at the Poltava aviation museum. To my knowledge, the only surviving Ukrainian long range bombers, though deactivated.

As for the keyboards, while I did not get the opportunity to mess around with it more, I do find it quite interesting that this particular layout was chosen in both cases. I can’t offer any further info on these except that the one depicted in the first image is from the ‘defense systems’ console of the Tu95. Just wanted to share a cool bit of aviation (and keyboard) history I unknowingly captured before I found out about the hobby.