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Swedish Flight Simulator Adds G Forces
jonerik writes "According to this article in Aviation Week and Space Technology, Sweden's Dynamic Flight Simulator (DFS) is believed to be the first flight simulator which actually allows fighter pilots to experience G forces under simulated conditions. Designed and built by California-based Wyle Laboratories, the DFS is essentially a flight simulator capsule (in this case for Sweden's JAS 39 Gripen fighter) located at the end of a 30-foot centrifuge arm. 'We wanted to give pilots the ability to "fly" and interact with the environment rather than just be a passive [centrifuge] rider,' said Will Roberts, program manager for Wyle Laboratories' DFS programs. 'We've come a long way in being able to translate the six degrees-of-freedom you get in an aircraft into the three degrees-of-freedom that we can control in a centrifuge. It's not perfect, but we think it's pretty good. There's room for more research to make it even better.'"
....simulates usability!
...the use of a smaller drive motor. Wyle chose a 1,900-kw. Westinghouse DC motor originally designed for steel mill applications, connected directly to the centrifuge-arm drive system. It delivers about 7 megawatts of peak power in approximately 100 millisec
If that's smaller, what was the bigger one??
Ok, I'm waiting the home version of this capsule, I want to test Flight Simulator with it.
ajf
Any chance they'll make a sex simulator with a simulated G-spot?
Finally I can die in plain accident without having to buy a plane!
Wonder if the fact that 'Kuka' rhymes with 'puka' is a coincidence...
I thought that Gripen was the name for one of those fancy IKEA entertainment centers.
Great news, but I hope they have a realistic simulation for ejecting and crashing too. If I remember correctly, the plane was crashed twice by the same pilot while testing it in the '90s. Some things would just be cheaper to simulate. :)
I was building one of these simulators in my garage... I was actually aiming to simulate the g-forces of a race car, not a flight sim... but still... I knew I should have patented my prototype... damn it..
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From the link about the plane.. scroll down
is it just me or is that not a house in the background
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.. how do they turn right? AS long as they fly LEFT turns theyre ok :D other wise that would blow the realism.
Enough about flight. What about the Swedish Chef Simulator?
snuggle, you just strap in and feel the G's!!"
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I mean, they can do it on Star Trek, right? Artificial gravity would be the perfect tech for this purpose... putting a simulator capsule on a centrifuge is so, like, stone age. ;)
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