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rob-nz
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Aussie Defence force builds Linux combat flight sim.

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/154262,defence-spends-17m-on-ultimate-linux-flight-simulator.aspx

Can I come over and play!!!

Posted 6 months ago #
Ben
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Awesome. Reminds me of one of those home-made 747 simulators:
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2006/09/homemade_full_size_flight.html

Although the article doesn't say whether the Aussie one is a full moving platform. Surely it must be?

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Posted 6 months ago #
rob-nz
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Probably, although fixed base sims aren't uncommon.
The original F-18 sim at McDonnel Douglas used to have a cockpit on a six-axis arm in the middle of a projection dome.
Now THAT's what I'm talking about!

Posted 6 months ago #
rob-nz
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For contrast, the old Rediffusion 737-200 full motion sim at Air NZ in the eighties used to run on PDP-11's with punch tape.

IIRC the avionics guys had wired up a Commodore Vic-20 to the keypunch machine, so they could store programs on the cassette tape.

Or was that the F-27? Dang, can't remember!

Posted 6 months ago #