Bell Huey Pilots/Maintainers...a few questions, if you will?
Hello! My name is John and I am a flight simulator junkie. (Weird right?) For the day job, I am the lead draftsman/mechanical designer on my program for one of the Aerospace/Defense corps. For fun/my living room, I am working on designing and building a two-place Bell UH-1 sim. Downloaded over 500 cockpit/interior pictures, and have all the TMs to include the IPM (-210-20P), and even got some dimensions second-hand from a couple of Bell 205s.
Hoping that when complete, I can trailer mount this setup and take it airshows, large events, and such - just something to help inspire kids to get into aviation and/or the engineering disciplines. I was hoping that one of you Huey pilots or maintainers might be able to help me out a bit here with a few dimensions (Hopefully accurate to the ten-thousandth of an inch, but as accurate as the tape measure will go will work as well.) I'm sure I'll discover more missing dimensions as my model comes along. AC Breaker Panel: (Panel near pilots left foot)
Here is a render of the status of my model a few days ago. (I've roughed in the floor, and started designing my cyclic gimbals since.) I took some liberties with the Avionics, opting for a ARC-210 control head, and an ASN-128D for simplicity. http://forums.eagle.ru/attachment.ph...hmentid=117764 |
Wow, that's a pretty impressive start you have there! PM me your cell number if you have an iPhone or if not, your e-mail address and I'd be happy to send you some photos with a ruler in it of our medium.
As an aside, Chinook Helicopters in Abbotsford, Canada has just designed and built their own Bell Medium sim, their website may have something that helps. |
Hi John,
https://www.facebook.com/Agrarflug/i...=page_internal operates Bell - and has a lot of spare parts, including old military Bells... You might ask them, what they want for a cockpit (assume they would rather sell without windows, cause they are quite expensive) |
Here are some pics of mine before we took it to the paint shop.... I will be with one of my others on Wednesday/Thursday... let me know what more you need:
http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j3...psk5ovfzwz.jpg http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j3...psquz0dopd.jpg http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j3...ps2znr83fc.jpg http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j3...pswmanswf7.jpg http://i76.photobucket.com/albums/j3...pswgqgng5s.jpg |
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