Re: [Flightgear-devel] Motion Base Simulator ?

2004-04-23 Thread Curtis L. Olson
Manuel Bessler wrote: Yes, it was an actual plane. AFAIR D-ABYM of the Lufthansa. Its part of a museum. Its staticly mounted, so no motion sim :( Hmmm, all you'd need to do would be to put some large electric servo motors on each strut that could drive them up and down a foot or so in each

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Motion Base Simulator ?

2004-04-23 Thread Manuel Bessler
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004 18:12:16 -0400 Ampere K. Hardraade wrote: > That's because it isn't a 747-400, but a 747-200; which makes me think > that that might once been an actual plane. Yes, it was an actual plane. AFAIR D-ABYM of the Lufthansa. Its part of a museum. Its staticly mounted, so no motio

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Motion Base Simulator ?

2004-04-23 Thread Jon Stockill
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Jonathan Richards wrote: > See that? That's coming to next year's Linux Expo, that is! > > We can dream, I suppose... *note to self: you'll be needing the larger drum of cable to wire that one up. -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL PROTECTED] __

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Motion Base Simulator ?

2004-04-22 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Thursday 22 Apr 2004 5:43 am, Jon Berndt wrote: > You've seen those hydraulically actuated little simulator rides? Forget > that, here's a bigger one: > > http://tinyurl.com/2oxzd > See that? That's coming to next year's Linux Expo, that is! We can dream, I suppose... J. _

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Motion Base Simulator ?

2004-04-22 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
That's because it isn't a 747-400, but a 747-200; which makes me think that that might once been an actual plane. Regards, Ampere On April 22, 2004 07:10 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been in that plane. They have a long slide from the platform to > the ground and I did go down it. :-) I

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Motion Base Simulator ?

2004-04-22 Thread Wolfram Kuss
LoL, friends of mine where ion there last weekend. I don't think they know the picture, so I just sent them the link :-). BTW, they now have a Concorde there as well. Bye bye, Wolfram. ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.fl

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Motion Base Simulator ?

2004-04-22 Thread stephen
On 21 Apr 2004 at 23:43, Jon Berndt wrote: > You've seen those hydraulically actuated little simulator rides? Forget > that, here's a bigger one: > > http://tinyurl.com/2oxzd > > Jon > > Jon I have been in that plane. They have a long slide from the platform to the ground and I did go down

[Flightgear-devel] Motion Base Simulator ?

2004-04-21 Thread Jon Berndt
You've seen those hydraulically actuated little simulator rides? Forget that, here's a bigger one: http://tinyurl.com/2oxzd Jon ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel