The North American Museum of Flight Simulation

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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Photo Source: ATC

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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Boeing 767-300ER FFS

SimulationMuseum — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 07:15:27 GMT

Boeing 767-300ER full flight simulator.

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Convair NC-131H Total In-Flight Simulator (TIFS)

SimulationMuseum — Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:42:46 GMT

This aircraft is located in the Research & Development Gallery on a secure part of Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

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This one-of-a kind aircraft was created for the U.S. Air Force in the late 1960s by the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory of Buffalo, N.Y. (later the Calspan Corp.). Engineers used it as an in-flight simulator to study how an aircraft would fly before building an expensive, full-scale prototype.

Originally a USAF C-131B transport aircraft, this airplane underwent extensive modifications. Its original piston engines were replaced by turboprop engines with nearly twice the horsepower, but the most noticeable modifications added the second cockpit on the nose and the vertical fins on the wings. It was redesignated the NC-131H with the "N" to indicate that the aircraft had been permanently modified.

The TIFS could be configured with two different noses. The first nose is a two-place cockpit from which onboard computers simulated the handling characteristics of various aircraft. It provided a large field of view and contained reconfigurable controls and instrument displays. The original cockpit carried two safety pilots who monitored the simulations and could take control in case of a problem.

In the second configuration, called the Avionics Systems Test and Training Aircraft (ASTTA), the avionics nose carried large prototype radars, infrared cameras, and other sensors. A crew station in the main cabin accommodated the system operators.

Engineers found the TIFS especially useful for studying how large aircraft would handle during takeoff and landing. Vertical fins on the wings generated side forces to simulate crosswinds and provided test data.

The TIFS made its first flight in 1970, and its first research project simulated the B-1 bomber in 1971. During its long career, the TIFS simulated many military and NASA aircraft including the B-1, X-40, Tacit Blue, Space Shuttle, B-2, YF-23 and C-17. Civilian aircraft development projects included the Boeing Supersonic Transport (SST), 7J7, MD-12X and Indonesian N-250. It also served to train test pilots. The TIFS came to the National Museum of the United States Air Force in 2008.

UTair Mi-26T Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Sun, 03 Mar 2013 09:31:41 GMT

Mi-26T Simulator at UTair Training Center.

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Photo Source: Marianna Efremova

An-148 Full Flight Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:30:32 GMT

An-148 Full Flight Simulator at S7 Training center.

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The North American Museum of Flight Simulation, invites people of all ages and from all regions to explore the wonders of flight simulation. It will do this by collecting and displaying working and static Flight Simulators and their history, showing the significance—scientific and technical, as well as economic, that simulators have contributed to the North America and the worlds aviation industry.

Photo:Roman Gusarov

Full Flight Simulator for An-148

SimulationMuseum — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 19:25:50 GMT

Full Flight Simulator for the An-148 has been installed at S7 Training center.

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Photo: Roman Gusarov

Grumman Tracker rudder & spring tab trainer

SimulationMuseum — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 08:26:23 GMT

Grumman Tracker rudder & spring tab trainer, HMAS Albatross.

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Photo: Peter Ellis

Cross-cockpit collimated visual display system

SimulationMuseum — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 08:23:14 GMT

Side view of a flight simulator cross-cockpit collimated visual display system. The principle was developed by the Rediffusion company (Crawley, UK, now part of the Thales Group) in 1982 and is now used by many other flight simulator manufacturers.

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Photo: Ian W Strachan

Bucharest Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 08:18:45 GMT

Bucharest Simulator.

Photo: Daniel Pandelea

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TL 39 Flight Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 08:11:56 GMT

Czech-made three degree-of-freedom motion flight simulator TL39.

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FlightMatic Vista Simulator, 1970

SimulationMuseum — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 00:47:22 GMT

A FlightMatic Vista single engine simulator (Cessna 150?).

Airbus A-330 Simulator Flightdeck

SimulationMuseum — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 04:56:19 GMT

Airbus A-330 Simulator Flightdeck with a night view.

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Airbus A-330-340 Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 04:47:31 GMT

This simulator can switch between the A-330 and A-340 cockpit in less that 15 minutes, saving time and money for arlines using both aircraft.

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Antoinette Barrel Trainer

SimulationMuseum — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:00:18 GMT

The first known flight simulation device was to help pilots fly the Antoinette monoplane. The Antoinette used two wheels mounted left and right of the pilot, one for pitch and one for roll. Although the pitch wheel operated in a natural sense, the roll wheel did not (this had to wait until the "invention" of the centrally mounted control column or "stick" or "joystick").

A training rig was developed in 1909 to help the pilot operate the control wheels before the aircraft was flown. This consisted of a seat mounted in a half-barrel and the two wheels. The whole unit was pivoted so that assistants outside could pitch and roll the device in accordance with the pilot's use of the wheels, using long wooden rods attached to the barrel structure. A full-size model of the "Antoinette Barrel Trainer" is in the foyer of the Airbus Training Centre at Toulouse, France.

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L-188 Electra Flight Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 07:47:44 GMT

This is an in house built simulator by Air Spray in Red Deer Alberta. The Lockheed L-188 Electra water bomber cockpit uses 3 video screens instead of some instrument gauges. One in the center and one for each pilot. The visual display is produced by 3 overhead projectors.

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Old and New

SimulationMuseum — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 03:26:43 GMT

To the left a Link trainer from KLM and to the right a homebuilt simulator usng a concave mirror for visuals, reflecting the picture on the wall to the simulator screen.

Both simulators are at the Flight Simulation Museum in Someren, Holland.

We are the new kid on the block, being the second dedicated museum in the world to Flight Simulation. The North American Museum of Flight Simulation, invites people of all ages and from all regions to explore the wonders of flight simulation. It will do this by collecting and displaying working and static Flight Simulators and their history, showing the significance—scientific and technical, as well as economic, that simulators have contributed to the North America and the worlds aviation industry.

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Boeing 737-200ADV Flight Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 03:10:32 GMT

Boeing 737-200ADV Flight Simulator

This simulator is a monochrome night display. It is a great thrill to fly both in full motion and without. The mountain on the left of the runway will look pretty impressive on take off. Still lots of Airlines who wants simulator time on this bird.

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Boeing 767-300ER Flight Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Fri, 02 Nov 2012 03:05:44 GMT

Waiting for take off....and crew. This is an older FS but it is full motion and a hoot to fly.

Flight simulators are an essential element in individual pilot as well as flight crew training. They save time, money and lives. The cost of operating even an expensive Level D Full Flight Simulator is many times less than if the training was to be on the aircraft itself and a cost ratio of some 1:40 has been reported for Level D simulator training compared to the cost of training in a real Boeing 767 aircraft.

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Cockpit for Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 21:04:50 GMT

The Beechcraft King Air 100 cockpit that we will convert to a flight simulator. The first of many. We are also pursuing other simulators like a F-28 full flight simulator and much more. Support our Museum, tweet and blog about it.

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King Air 100 Cockpit

SimulationMuseum — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:59:37 GMT

The Museum has got its first cockpit, a Beechcraft King Air 100 from an aviation company in Calgary Alberta. It will be shipped to us in the spring of 2013.

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Taking off in the L-188 Electra Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:36:59 GMT

View of the graphic display on the in house built L-188 simulator at Air Spray in Red Deer.

They had a photo aircraft do the filming at Red Deer (AB) and Smithers (BC) and digitized it so they could use well known places/terrain when the pilots are using the simulator.

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Future DC-3 Simulator

SimulationMuseum — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 06:30:17 GMT

The Museum is looking at getting this DC-3 nose/cockpit section and will then transform it into a flight simulator.

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