[Flightgear-devel] Modular / portable cockpit design

[James Turner]

On 2 Dec 2005, at 00:32, John Wojnaroski wrote: Just a question of time and energy.  The design issue is how to keep it portable so we can haul the gear around to shows like Scale4x coming up in Feb 06. Same problem with putting everything into a shell,  fantastic for a fixed installation but kind of like the old story of the fellow who builds the 30 foot sailboat in his cellar.... I would talk to some exhibition set / theatre set people if you can (I am slightly involved in the tech side of an amateur theatre company) - generally such people have to produce stuff which is pretty cheap, pretty durable and which can be transported, assembled and taken apart pretty fast without lots of support equipment. As far as I can tell (I haven't worked on set myself), a lot of it comes down the finding sufficiently fancy pins / hinges / bolts / locks that you can have everything be modular (eg, the pedestal, main panel, glare shield), but still be rock solid when it's all set into place. Experience is a big factor in that... James -- That which does not kill me has poor aim

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