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Matt's Multi-Mission Military Flight Simulator
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SIM various
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James & Ted visit 2003
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Sim pilots 1999-2004
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Basement tour 2004
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Canopy & projector
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Sound system enhancement
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SIM TV studio
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Instructor's station
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Flight controls
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Instruments
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Control heads
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HUD & MFD Functions
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Misc.
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Childhood sims to present
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Evolution of current sim
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Ejection seat progression
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Planned upgrades
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EPIC interface
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Instrument interfaces
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HUD development
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Other projects
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Software
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Parts sources
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I had to build an improvised support and rail assembly to allow the seat motor to move the seat up and down and allow for installation into the sim's frame. Here you can see my wife, Janet, during my initial load tests.
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My favorite ejection seat, from the F-4 Phantom, was always out of my reach financially until I sold enough stuff on eBay to pay for one from Aviator's World. The MK7 seat is mean and serious looking and chock full of complex assemblies, linkages and parachute lines. It was too big and heavy to go UPS, so it had to be shipped by truck. The above picture shows the restored seat sporting many new components and completely repainted exterior. Below are additional pictures of the seat. To populate the upcoming rear cockpit, a second MK7 seat has been acquired and twice as many new components have been purchased from eBay and other sources. Lessons learned from restoring the first seat will be applied to the second and a far more detailed restoration will take place.
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Removing the old seat was easy since it was under 100lbs. The F-4 seat is considerably heavier and could not be safely lifted over the sim walls and into position. So the best alternative was to open the sim from the back, remove the old seat, and simply roll the new seat into the space the old one occupied. Mouting the seat to a castored base also made it easy to add an actuator to move the seat forwards and backwards to acommodate different pilot leg lenths.
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Thankfully, the F-4 seat was no wider than the F-100D seat, thus not requiring any rework of the side consoles or sim main structure. The F-4 seat's internal seat bucket motor runs from 115V 400Hz and works perfectly. The actuator that moves the seat forwards and backwards runs on 28VDC and was the ols F-100D seat's up/down height actuator.
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Here is the rather formidable frame I mounted the ejection seat to. This allowed the seat to be moved easily on a castored frame and also allowed the seat pan to raise and lower. This also enabled me to mount the seat from the catapult tube, as it should be, without modifying the original seat in any way.
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