For the 2012 Maker Faire , five in high spirits - school students from the Bay Area have embark upon an awesomely ambitious project : to reconstruct a homemade flight simulator depicting the cockpit of a Viper from Battlestar Galactica . After launching a successfulKickstarter campaign , the team produced this video showing off their progression :
The basic idea is to mount the fuselage of a belittled plane ( a Piper PA-28 ) on a motion control platform that is capable of 360 arcdegree gyration on both the pitch and roll axes . The video above shows the canonic pattern we ’re scoot for . This plan allow for considerably more move around the pitch shot axis vertebra than commercial amusement system of rules , such as those found at the Smithsonian Air and Space museum [ … ]
We found the Piper fuselage in an airplane fight yard , cut it to fit the proposed frame , and set up a racing posterior with six - point harness . We used Autodesk Inventor software to plan the figure , acquire the steel to build it with , and sent the steel to a local fabricator for professional welding .
Battlestar Galactica escape simulator — keeping youth off the street and aside from Starbuck - comparable behavior since the frak if I cognise . you could check out their weekly progresshereand see their past projects — like a replication Samus Aran conflict cause from Metroid — here .
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