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.'"

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:Sad news, Stephen King dead at 54

[Horny Smurf]

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Sad news, Ray Davies Dead at 59

[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Re:One quibble

[Anonymous Coward]

what about the forces experienced by a fighter pilot in a tight loop, at the point when the jet is upside-down relative to the earth?

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[Otter]

I think that's Larry Ellison's fifth home...

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[Anonymous Coward]

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Note:

I DID put "" around the phrase

Putting a + in front of the search still produces bad results

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This problem is sympomatic of Google searching: single-word searches work great, but phrase searches often come up with a lot of irrelevant results.

This is not rocket science. What is so hard about the basic `find where a = b` kind of search?

I asked Google about this. They said it was a bug they might fix someday. (so this is, again, not my misperception of how Google works)

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