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On EBay: Shuttle Flight Deck Simulator

Posted by chrisd on from the lance-may-be-able-to-afford-this dept.

An anonymous reader writes: "Just to pass time before taking the real trip. shuttle flight deck simulator" Not a real nasa simulator, but a very impressive operating replica. The construction details are quite interesting too.

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  1. What's with the pictures? by nanaki · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Most of the pictures on the page have a little note under them saying what's being sold doesn't include everything shown. What is included?

  2. Public Property? by The+Dobber · · Score: 5, Interesting

    If he recieved a grant (I'm assuming some type of educational type), wouldn't this be property of the goverment/school system/public entity?

  3. Overkill by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I also had switch guards fabricated by a local metalworking shop. On the shuttle, their purpose is to keep the weightless, floating astronauts from accidentally bumping an important switch. In my simulator, they weren't really necessary, but I was going for total realism...

    This is overkill, especially if it was taxpayer's money. Perhaps it was a fixed-priced contract and the extra's were on him, I don't know. Otherwise, just use erector-set L-joints or something.

    Also, I have seen turn-knobs roughly similar to the grey ones he talks about at Radio Shack. He went and made *custom* turn-knobs.

    If such "extra's" were out of his pocket, fine. However, as a tax-payer I would have a fit if I found out all the custom stuff that was made when close-enough ones were available off-the-shelf.

    He must be an ex-military contractor.

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