Building aBattlestar GalacticaViper flight simulator is the ultimate extracurricular activity
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 ....