New Simulators For QF
Here's Something From Singer-Link
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Remember it? Blimey, I remember going into QF many occasions in the two years, three months and twenty one days between 'graduation' and starting at QF and 'flying' the thing. It was always a strange thing to fly. Slippery as all get out until you got on the wrong side of the drag curve and then it sank like a lead balloon and needed oodles of power to recover from what appeared like a death dive.
Fun and games!
Fun and games!
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Originally Posted by Cloud Cutter
That's awesome! Doesn't Ed look proud. What year did he roll it out?
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Chimbu Chuckles,
Before leaving the UK for Oz, in 1983, I spent 22 years in the RAF as a Simulator Technician, and have a deal of experience in them with the visual models close to what you describe.
Ours, Jaguar and Harrier from my experience, used the flat-bed models in three scales, 2000:2 for the airfield models, 4000:1 for the Weapon-delivery models and 20,000:1 for the Terrain models.
My first sim, Phantom, had models on an A-frame with the camera tracking over them, but were very unreliable. The main computer was booted from a cassette tape, a quantum leap from the "old" days of eight-hole paper tape!!
I have a few photos of the Jaguar models, but absolutely NO idea how to get them on here, would anyone be interested in advising?
Best regards,
TheNightOwl.
Before leaving the UK for Oz, in 1983, I spent 22 years in the RAF as a Simulator Technician, and have a deal of experience in them with the visual models close to what you describe.
Ours, Jaguar and Harrier from my experience, used the flat-bed models in three scales, 2000:2 for the airfield models, 4000:1 for the Weapon-delivery models and 20,000:1 for the Terrain models.
My first sim, Phantom, had models on an A-frame with the camera tracking over them, but were very unreliable. The main computer was booted from a cassette tape, a quantum leap from the "old" days of eight-hole paper tape!!
I have a few photos of the Jaguar models, but absolutely NO idea how to get them on here, would anyone be interested in advising?
Best regards,
TheNightOwl.
Grandpa Aerotart
email em to me, I'll PM my email, and I'll host em for you.
Or go www.fototime.com and register. You can then download picture to that website and then post the url here and people can see them.
Or go www.fototime.com and register. You can then download picture to that website and then post the url here and people can see them.
