The Continuity Guide
Eagle Guide
by Martin Willey

The studio set never had a forward section, with the brief exception of two shots in The Beta Cloud which have a normal computer wall. Instead, the SFX department filmed a forward left window or a screen.

Roberto Baldassari rendering from the Italian DVD menus (2007). The screen logically goes in the centre, but the top corners have to be clipped to fit in the windows. Additional screens are added under the windows and behind the front console, plus a higher central display.

This is the Chris Thompson rendering from Moonbase Alpha Technical Operations Manual (2021, p123). The windows have more vertical height in this version. Again, the corners of the central screen panel are clipped (just like Roberto), and there are screens under the windows, with instruments at the high central position between the windows. While Roberto's front wall is flat, Chris introduces an angle to the centre, so the windows have the same angle as the exterior command module.

Rendering by Andrew Novinc, 2024. Andrew uses the same angle for the windows, but puts the lower screens and central screen panel straight, with a little shelf on top. The computer screens under the window are the same as seen in the Eagle pod. There is no need for an invented central panel between the windows; these details are all authentic to the window prop. Some small added details are the handles on the corners under the window, and at the centre top.

The Eagle cockpit front windows must be smaller on the inside as they are of a different shape than the external windows. This is the year 1 port side configuration. Only the port side window is seen- we never see the starboard window. The prop has a small lip on the interior of the window, with white panels, although the optical burn-ins sometimes obscure them. The top left corner of the prop should not exist, a large flat area which extends way beyond what should be the curve of the roof.

In year 2 the area between the pilot and copilot windows supposedly contains a "big screen" (Space Warp). It can display star charts, external images and presumably computer data as well. The small instruments around are Sperry aircraft instruments, including several radio altimeters, attitude indicators, VHF nav receivers (indicating there are VOR ground stations around the Moonbase), King KWX 50/60 weather radar and STARS (Sperry Three Axis Altitude Reference System) auto-pilot/ flight director. See prop photos