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Jan 27th, 2007 at 7:55am
Concordepilot   Ex Member

 
You may think I am stupid for doing this but I might aswell.

In two months time when all my resource are in my garage I am going to start building my own Concorde simulator and try to cram in into my bedroom.

I bet you lot think I am mad don't you.  Cheesy Well at the age of 13 I am and I an't lying.

So any hints or tips will do.
 
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Reply #1 - Jan 28th, 2007 at 5:05am

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Good luck, perhaps when Its finished in 30 years time I can come round and have a go Cheesy

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Reply #2 - Jan 28th, 2007 at 5:46am

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Good luck...

How much you planning to spend?
 

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Reply #3 - Jan 28th, 2007 at 6:51am
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It is not going to take 30 years it will be around 5-10 at max and I don't know how much it cost as most of the suplies have come from family building buisness.
 
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Reply #4 - Jan 28th, 2007 at 1:29pm

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just a couple (there are a lot in the web...):

http://www.concordesst.com/inside/cockpittour/tourindex.html

http://museedelta.free.fr/concorde/cockpit_real1.htm

Hope those ones will turn useful for your design phase.

Bye!
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Reply #5 - Jan 29th, 2007 at 3:31pm

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Whoo-eee! You sure picked a good one to start with... Grin

If you're planning on recreating all crew stations, you might want to plan it in stages... from the flight deck door to the glareshield there's a lot of real estate and all of it is encrusted with buttons, switches, knobs , lights, and gauges!  Shocked


But just the main panel and Captain/FO seats could be quite do-able, except for the Concorde-specific shape of everything.
Get that built and up and running, then perhaps move on to FE, etc.
You'll have to decide early on how much of it will be for show and how much functional... I'm not building a replica-type pit, but if I were, I'd feel obliged to make as much of it  functional as possible. Dummy gauges and stuff like that just annoy me.
But with the Concorde, which is like a museum of vintage gauges and gewgaws, that could be a lengthy and rather expensive project. Some day I may try to build a DC-3 or B17 flight deck, but Concorde..? Better you than me, chum. Wink

Might have to knock a hole in the wall for the nose cone, if it's going to be "droop"-able...! Grin

Good luck!!

 

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Reply #6 - Jan 29th, 2007 at 4:12pm
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it might be on stilts for the drooping bit I duno.
 
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Reply #7 - Feb 4th, 2007 at 1:51am

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i think you need a robotics expert to make the nose droppable.
 

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Reply #8 - Feb 4th, 2007 at 3:33am

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Make the windscreen portion of the droop only (after all it's the only bit you can see from the cockpit):

You use light materials like painted insulating foam and some simple circuitry and a couple of heavy-duty servos...

Or make it out of more substantial material and use a couple of sail winch servos...

Or use a worm gear to collapse a parallelogram support structure...

Or use relays and power window operators...

Or, hmmm... so many ways to accomplish that I can't decide what's next.

Good to go.

That isn't even hard. Smiley

Good luck with the Concorde 'pit.
 

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