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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: dracon on July 21, 2004, 07:49:34 PM
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http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=2983&item=5508447194&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW]
Wow!!
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Replica? Not interested.
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LOL!!
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would fit on a 6ft long car trailier
thought all you blokes over across the pond used that new fangled metric system???
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would be cool but the problem with a real canopy is that, the canopy is where the screen needs to be.
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Sit inside that, be seen and never bed with a woman again.
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Originally posted by SunKing
Sit inside that, be seen and never bed with a woman again.
... Build the rest of the plane, sit inside it, be seen and get all the women you want. The irony.
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A 6 ft. long car trailer? Hmmmmmm........now that`s something you don`t see every day. lol
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A thread about a replica Spit cockpit, and it got moved to the HARDWARE AND SOFTWARE forum? *lol* Skuzzy must be drinking! :lol
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Originally posted by GScholz
... Build the rest of the plane, sit inside it, be seen and get all the women you want. The irony.
I'd hate to see the women you'd get with a toy spitfire in your living room.
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Originally posted by SunKing
I'd hate to see the women you'd get with a toy spitfire in your living room.
Hell, I wouldn`t. Just think of the possibilities. Maybe a bottle of Ole Flakjacket, some leather,etc............ Coming in for a landing from a intense and bloddy mission is pilot Stud Lee Woopass. Waiting on the tarmac is Doughnut dolly L. Hottotrot wearing high heels and WWII era fishnet stockings.................... .........
Well you get the picture. Throw in some Cool Whip, some handcuffs, maybe a rubber chicken...................... ..............:D
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Set up your system inside it. Nice 20 inchflat screen monitor..etc.
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I don't think aircraft turn women on... 450+ horsepower on wheels is what they are looking for. ;)
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no, they are looking for a guy with a car that has a flourescent light and an engine that sounds and runs like a weedeater.
i.e. Honda
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Originally posted by Lazer
I don't think aircraft turn women on...
You have been eating some tainted cheese. :D
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I'll bring mine to the con if anyone wants to buy it.
http://www.edbert.net/109pit.htm
http://www.edbert.net/deployment.htm
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What you need is a nice flat LCD screen instead of that CRT box. Would be easier to build in the cockpit.
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doh.. forgot about the neon lighting kits :D
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Originally posted by Jasta
no, they are looking for a guy with a car that has a flourescent light and an engine that sounds and runs like a weedeater.
i.e. Honda
LOL
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Originally posted by Edbert MOL
I'll bring mine to the con if anyone wants to buy it.
http://www.edbert.net/109pit.htm
http://www.edbert.net/deployment.htm
Nice design but if you're going to do another one, I'd suggest:
- making the cockpit a bit wider for American bodies.
- instead of the aircraft instruments (which is a nice touch by the way), use that space for the monitor, or make it removable for a flatscreen perhaps.
- is that a sound system mounted on the back, behind the pilot's seat?
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I'd also suggest that instead of going with the side mounted joystick you add a column from the floor rising between the pilots legs, secure the stick at the top. that way you avoid the hinge-sucking in the gut problem.
Otherwise that's damn awesome.
Technical question in case anyone knows....
Does AH support multiple monitors or not?
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- making the cockpit a bit wider for American bodies.
I fit inside okay, it was ingress exgress that is difficult. I am 6'1" and right at 200#. This simpit is as wide as possible and still able to be rolled through a stanard interior doorway of Amercican homes (30 inches as I recall offhand).
- instead of the aircraft instruments (which is a nice touch by the way), use that space for the monitor, or make it removable for a flatscreen perhaps.
At one point I was gonna make nonfunctioning instruments out of plexiglass, what you see there is just a laser-print.
- is that a sound system mounted on the back, behind the pilot's seat?
No, what you see in the pictures is a ventillation fan, it sucks air in through the "windsheild" (that is not there) and pushes it out behind. Only way to keep from sweating your arse off. There IS a shelf behind the seat that contained the baby-ATX computer (before I got the mid-ATX), I used it for the subwoofer (Klipsch in my case) so the answer to your question is sort "yes" but it is not visible.
- I'd also suggest that instead of going with the side mounted joystick you add a column from the floor rising between the pilots legs, secure the stick at the top. that way you avoid the hinge-sucking in the gut problem.
I tried that with an old stick, it was my original plan. But think about this...your average computer joystick moves what, 3-5 inches at the top of the handle? Put that on top of a 30-inch tube and resolder the wires. Then you have to move the top of your new stick 3 feet (or more!) for full deflection! I tried recalibrating with it only moving ~10 inches each way but it was far too squirelly. They make a computer centric joystick with potentiometers that have very small throws but it has two buttons on it and i am too used to the HOTAS to lose that. What I did was the best compromise I could come up with, it also allowed me to have a small place to store and use the mouse.
- Does AH support multiple monitors or not?
Nope, best thing going for the surounded visual feel for a simpit is TrackIR though, support for that is "on the list". AH does also not have support for functional gauges like some other simulators games do.
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Originally posted by Adogg
Technical question in case anyone knows....
Does AH support multiple monitors or not?
I recently asked the same question and was told no it does not.