Hi all,
some time ago, Martin announced some special hardware for our FlightGear
presentations at FSweekend and LinuxTag. Today, after several month of mostly
bureaucratic adventures, he managed to ferry our new toy across roughly half
of Germany. This is even more noticeable given the fact, that after several
very hot summer days, an intense cold front passed by the last night and left
behind some low clouds and local showers. Martin managed to stay safely VFR
and find the small grass runway of Wahlstedt (EDHW) in Northern Germany with
just basic navigation equipment (no GPS!) after a little more than two hours
of flight time. He completed his flight in style with an excellent and smooth
landing, ignoring the sometimes gusty winds which are so common in this area.
He was welcomed by Alexa and Torsten with a landing beer of a local brewery
("Beugelbuddelbier") and his copy of our famous FlightGear landing
certificates.
The conversion into a static simulator will take place at my house some 60km
south of the airfield, so we will start slicing the bird into smaller chunks
for transportation on a truck. This will happen very soon and I fear, it will
be the heart-breaking part of this story.
Our goal is to be able to present it later in several options of completeness:
- complete aircraft
- just the fuselage, wing and elevator removed
- just the cabin, no wing or elevator, fuselage cut behind the rear window
- the cabin with wing, fuselage cut behind the rear window
The instruments will be replaced by TFT displays and certainly all controls
will be functional, I'd even love to see the control surface move, have force-
feedback and (dreaming...)
We will keep you updated on the progress...
Here are a few images of day #1 of our new project:
http://www.t3r.de/d-eeqa/
Greetings, Torsten
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