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Home-built 747 Simulator

Posted by timothy on from the remember-flightgear-dot-org dept.

James Morris writes: "This is a cool hack: some guy is building a 747 simulator in his backyard." This is one of the most impressive even while in progress, but the other projects linked from this site set a tough standard.

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  1. FBI visit by UnifiedTechs · · Score: 3, Funny

    Oh yeah, this guy can expect a visit from the FBI any day now!

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    1. Re:FBI visit by Fred_A · · Score: 2, Funny

      I had no idea that the overuse of the tag was a federal offense in the US.

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    2. Re:FBI visit by TheAlmightyQ · · Score: 2, Funny

      Actually, it is.
      If anyone uses the tag any other web developer within a 50 mile radius is required by law to come over to their house and kick their ass.

      If it's on Slashdot it must be true.

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  2. No FBI in Oz, mate. by Blaede · · Score: 2, Funny

    What's he gonna do, practice crashing into an Outback steakhouse?

  3. perspective... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Guy In Bar: Yeah, so in my free time I'm building the city's largest collection of historical NFL material.
    Guy In Bar: Yeah, I'm doing something like that too -- I 'got a 747 simulator in my backyard, workin' on it for almost five years.
    Bartender: Sir, I think you've had a little too many. Shall I call a cab?

  4. Nice by qslack · · Score: 3, Funny

    If he ever wanted to build a web server stress simulator, he's got one...

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  5. I'll one up you by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'm designing a 747 passenger simulator. Basically, it's a set of six chairs crammed too close together with a yammering asshole mannequin in the seat by the window, a 'six-year-old' seat kicking mechanism, and a vague pilot intercom on the ceiling. It'll cost you $400 more than you expect, and pray that it's available to ride the day you show up.

  6. Re:I don't understand... by Jonny+290 · · Score: 4, Funny
    heh.

    May 2015: "I've finally cracked these emails. What do they contain?"
    FROM: audits@andersen.com
    TO: kennethlay@enron.com
    DATE: 15 Sep 2001

    Shred it, Ken. Shred it all.
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  7. Are you sure it's a 747? by BMonger · · Score: 4, Funny

    All I could seem to find was a 404 simulator...





    AH-HAHAHAHAHA! (Laughs since nobody else should)

  8. Re:Glad it's in Sydney by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Did you know that the IRA gets pretty much all of it's funding from America to blow up British people?

    Those ads all over telling people to invest in an IRA are for Individual Retirement Accounts.

    I can see a Brit getting concerned about the push for everyone to put thousands into the IRA.