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Frasca 101 Flight Trainer, with Visual Aid

SimulationMuseum — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:35:40 GMT

The North American Museum of Flight Simulation has received this trainer from the BC Aviation Museum. It looks like it can also do some visual training when the hood is open. We will find out more about that when we start running it.

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Frasca 101 Flight Trainer Plotting Table

SimulationMuseum — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:31:19 GMT

The Museum is happy to announce that we have a new Simulator, donated to us by the BC Aviation Museum in Sidney BC. The Frasca 101 will be part of our collection of flight simulators.

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Frasca 101 Flight Trainer with Plotting Table

SimulationMuseum — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 21:28:17 GMT

The North American Museum of Flight Simulation has received this trainer from the BC Aviation Museum. It looks very healthy and we will have it running soon.

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Frasca 101 Flight Trainer Cockpit

SimulationMuseum — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:07:47 GMT

The Frasca 101 Flight Trainer Cockpit, the museums new simulator, donated by the BC Aviation Museum.

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Frasca 101 Flight Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 18:03:21 GMT

The Museum is happy to announce that we have a new Simulator, donated to us by the BC Aviation Museum in Sidney BC. The Frasca 101 will be part of our collection of flight simulators.

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Heading for Mach 2.0

SimulationMuseum — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:09:25 GMT

At 35000ft you lit the afterburners (see the 4 white switches under the throttle) and when you reach 58000ft you are cruising at Mach 2.0.

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Concorde Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Mon, 10 Jun 2013 00:00:01 GMT

The Concorde simulator at Brooklands Museum UK.

The most impressive thing when flying the Concorde simulator is the raw take-off power with 4 afterburners...wow. You reach V1-V2 very quickly.

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Airbus A350 Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 07:16:08 GMT

A rare glimpse into the new Airbus A350 simulator. Our museum hopes to get one of those in 10-20 years. If you have any simulator paraphenalia laying around, we would like to talk to you.

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Simulator Canopy

SimulationMuseum — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 01:43:28 GMT

We cannot afford a new plexiglass canopy for now, so that is being painted. To help us getting the $ 800 we need you can always become a "Founding Member".

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Flying in a non working Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 01:40:13 GMT

Jake is having a lot of fun pretending the simulator works.

Due to time constraints the simulator will not be working when we display it at the Air Show in July, it will attract attention to our booth and we will have it in working order later this year.

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Fixing a Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Sun, 02 Jun 2013 01:36:20 GMT

It is our first simulator and will always have a special place in the Museum. When we get FFS and CPT they will all dwarf this one, but it will always be the first in our collection.

The first task was to paint it and make it ready for the Boundary Bay Airport Air Show on July 27th, 2013. It was decided to paint the aluminum part (on one side) as well.

We are installing a door in the nose (there was a cover plate with 28 screws) and we wanted easy access to the computer that is going to run the FS program etc. The opening was widened so we can get in with both arms and plug in cables, switch the computer on/off.

The finished simulator will have a Royal Canadian Air Force decal on one side and the Museum logo on the other.

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Airbus A-330-340 Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 23:40:34 GMT

Airbus A-330-340 Simulator, showing the instructors console that can be moved forward and back on the rail. This is a combo Simulator that can simulate both the A-330 and the A-340.

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Throttle and Instruments on the B-767 Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 23:36:14 GMT

Throttle and Instruments on the B-767 Simulator.

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Ready for a Wild Ride

SimulationMuseum — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 23:32:03 GMT

Getting ready for a wild ride in the B-767 simulator. The instructor is throwing everything at you and it gets very hairy at certain times.

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Pre Flight Checklist B-767 Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 23:26:33 GMT

B-767-300ER Simulator Pre Flight Checklist doing the litany!

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Flying a B-767-300ER Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Sat, 01 Jun 2013 23:23:07 GMT

B-767-300ER Simulator Ready to Roll.

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Offloading Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 06:29:02 GMT

We moved our first flight simulator to Boundary Bay Airport on April 27. It is based on the F-4 Skyhawk and we hope to have it ready at the end of July to be displayed at the airport open house.

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Good Beginnings

SimulationMuseum — Sun, 28 Apr 2013 06:24:55 GMT

We moved our first flight simulator to Boundary Bay Airport on April 27. It is based on the F-4 Skyhawk and we hope to have it ready at the end of July to be displayed at the airport open house.

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Super MD-80 Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 23:11:27 GMT

McDonnell Douglas MD-80 Simulator, the museum has an eye on this working simulator but need to raise some more funds.

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McDonnell Douglas MD-80 Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:59:03 GMT

McDonnell Douglas MD-80 Simulator, the museum has an eye on this working simulator but need to raise some more funds.

The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 is a family of twin-engine, short- to medium-range, single-aisle commercial jet airliners. The MD-80 series were lengthened and updated from the DC-9. The airliner family can seat from 130 up to 172 passengers depending on variant and seating configuration.

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The Link Trainer

SimulationMuseum — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:50:23 GMT

The term Link Trainer, also known as the "Blue box" and "Pilot Trainer" is commonly used to refer to a series of flight simulators produced between the early 1930s and early 1950s by the Link Aviation Devices, Inc, founded and headed by Ed Link, based on technology he pioneered in 1929 at his family's business in Binghamton, New York. These simulators became famous during World War II, when they were used as a key pilot training aid by almost every combatant nation.

The original Link Trainer was created in 1929 out of the need for a safe way to teach new pilots how to fly by instruments. A former organ and nickelodeon builder, Link used his knowledge of pumps, valves and bellows to create a flight simulator that responded to the pilot's controls and gave an accurate reading on the included instruments. More than 500,000 US pilots were trained on Link simulators, as were pilots of nations as diverse as Australia, Canada, Germany, United Kingdom, Israel, Japan, Pakistan and the USSR.

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ATC Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:59:34 GMT

A nice simulator that the museum plans to use for showing schools and other groups how it feels to fly. It might not be the actual simulator, we will most likely build something ourselves.

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Flight Simulator Waiting for the Tech

SimulationMuseum — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:29:37 GMT

Boeing 767-300 Flight Simulator, waiting for the tech guy to start it up for the next session.

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Boeing 737-200ADV Flight Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 19:45:45 GMT

Boeing 737-200ADV Flight Simulator, all shut down for maintenance after a busy day of training pilots.

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Top Center Panel on B-767 Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:32:47 GMT

Top Center Panel on Boeing 767-300ER Simulator.

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