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[nutmegct]

Charlie- what's an especially interesting aviation history bit you've explored?
Tom M.

 

[DrP3D]

Hello, my name is Adam and I live in the UK. I love aviation and flight simulation. Currently I am looking to build a model of the Lockheed Constitution for Flight Simulation purposes. Looking for materials associated with the plane and anyone with knowledge about it.

 

[nutmegct]

Hi Adam - welcome to SPF. In case you don't already have this, here's a three view attached.

Also, take a look at this well researched book:

Amazon.com

And article beginning on page 20 of the August 30, 1948 issue of Aviation Week:

Aviation Week 1948-08-30 : Aviation Week : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

archive.org

Tom M.

 

[Juan Sx]

Hello

Im a 59 years old civil servant (tax related) starting to have more free time; love history and wargaming. I’m here to learn, as I see so many unusual and unknown to me proyects and weapon.

Cheers

 

[Russemoto]

Good day all. I am Russell, Living in New Zealand. I have a long interest in things military and 20th century naval in particular.

 

[cooks71]

Hello everyone! My name is Francesco Cotti, 52, from Italy. I'm a professional Microsoft IT engineer and a lifelong aviation enthusiast. As hobby and 2nd job I'm a novelist of military and aviation genre. As profile pic I chose the F-19 because, when i was a kid, that model kit was the spark for my love for the aviation world.

 

[KarlSack]

Hi, I'm Karl Sack. I'm doing research on my Dad's company he co-founded in 1946, Long Sault Woodcraft. His company made radomes for the military in the late 1950's on the DEW Line and Pinetree line sites across Canada. I later joined the air force as a radar tech stationed at CFS Falconbridge. My Dad worked at NRC, before leaving to start his company, during the war and worked on the experimental Tailless Glider.

 

[TomcatViP]

Thanks for sharing with us those pictures and welcome among our gang.

 

[F.L.]

Welcome Karl !!!

 

[xpentakill]

Hi I'm Dinesh, I'm working in the additive manufacturing industry and hopefully one day I'll be in the aerospace industry.

 

[dunarispace]

Hello, I'm from Poland and i hope to see great projects on this site

 

[Shoes31]

Hi all, I'm from Florida in the US currently working in the runway and highway safety industry. Hoping to get into the aerospace industry with a few applications out recently.

Always been a huge fan of aircraft and space and finding this site a few months ago was a gold mine to me, there are so many great resources, discussions and posts here. Looking forward to learning alot!

 

[Charlie 11]

Charlie- what's an especially interesting aviation history bit you've explored?
Tom M.

The first use of the Su-37 designation.

 

[kubelwagen]

Hello I am Tat. On and off I have been building scale models -- since my younger days up till now. Started with aircraft, tried figures for a bit, then settled on armor in the last several years. My interest in aircraft kits has been rekindled and am now drawn to Luftwaffe 1946 subjects. Cheers!

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Welcome!

 

[derUnterseebootBaron]

Hello! I’m Gideon, and I’m perennially interested in U-boat subjects, designs, Kriegsmarine ships and Tzoli. This site was really a useful resource for research I had to do for a project some time ago - there’s far too much info for me to absorb here (hahaha). I’m always on hand for anything German-related. Cheers!

 

[Dilandu]

Welcome from Mother Russia)

 

[Renegade_Actual]

Hello everyone!
I am new here and from the US. I have worked extensively in the US Army/SOCOM for the past 7 years and have since left the military for civilian pleasures. Military abandonware absolutely fascinates me and I love researching and compiling information about various historical military vehicles and collecting old military memorabilia and uniforms.

 

[quinn whitsitt]

hi

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

Hi everyone. Please read the rules if you haven't already and start posting

 

[Martin_Calva]

Hello, my name's Martin. I'm a Brit who moved to Normandy some time back. I am retired. Among other things I have been a researcher in radar signal processing and in communication system analysis. I find obsolete technology interesting, including obsolete electronics.

 

[KarlSack]

Hello, my name's Martin. I'm a Brit who moved to Normandy some time back. I am retired. Among other things I have been a researcher in radar signal processing and in communication system analysis. I find obsolete technology interesting, including obsolete electronics.

Welcome Martin! So, does radar signal processing help determine what the object is that it was bounced off of?

 

[Martin_Calva]

The answer is no/to some extent/yes...

A given radar has limited range resolution - the smallest separation between two targets at which they can still be detected as distinct objects, rather than blurring into a single apparent object. When the range resolution is much finer than the size of a target, then distinct features of the target can be resolved and it may become possible identify an object from its features.

There may be other clues as to what the object is - the strength of its radar return, the speed and direction of its movement, the dynamics of its maneuvering,...

 

[PhR]

Hi,
I am French and my name is Philippe Ricco.
I like projects, prototypes, flying testbeds and unusual airplanes. I have been working in Aviation domain for more than 40 years (CEV, Turboméca, Aérospatiale division Hélicoptères, Airbus and Mercury's avionics computers). I encountered various famous actors of Aviation history. I have collected materials about aviation and I share it though various magazines and books. I attach a list of my main publications.
I also help sometimes other authors to complete their illustration in magazines or books, such as the "French Secret Projects" by Jean-Christophe Carbonel, "Les avions et hydravions Loire" by Gérard Bousquet, or "Du siebel au martinet - 27 ans sous nos cocardes" by Pierre Cornu and Richard Queurty, etc.
I have seen plenty of illustrations coming from my collection in your threads. As you can see in my list, I am mainly publishing about French topics, but not only. For example, I have also published detailed stories about Bf 109H and Mc Donnel XP-67.

I try to provide time to time some complements of information when I can.

 

[overscan (PaulMM)]

I know the name well from some of your articles. Welcome, and thanks.

 

[TomcatViP]

@PhR : I have read probably 90% of the list of publications cited for Le Fana. Only good souvenirs. Welcome here.

 

[corsair simon]

Hi, I'm 57 and from Bristol in the UK and have a great interest in British Naval Aviation. This includes the 'what could have beens'.

The Admiralty didn't always cover themselves in glory when it came to procurement, even taking into account political meddling and limited available resources. I can't but cast a jealous eye at the USN and wonder what could have been.

I look forward to reading relevant posts and hopefully adding my pennies worth, where I feel it might add to the conversation

 

[cfg83]

Hello -

I found this forum when I saw the Transland Ag-2 crop duster thread. My Dad worked on this plane in the 1950s, so it's special to me.



Carlos

 

[让西方朋友们做出回答]

Greetings.

I am Nahida , 16 years of age and currently a high-school student.
I joined the forum due to my growing interest on aerospace technology and for the preparations for pursuing a degree for Aeronautical Engineering somewhere at the North.

I tend to recreate unbuilt aircraft, and have interests of Interwar aviation.

Aha, a genshin player?
By the way, I'm a college student, learning engineering, interested in military vehicles

 

[Nahida1645]

Aha, a genshin player?
By the way, I'm a college student, learning engineering, interested in military vehicles

Yes

 

[pahoota]

Hello,

I'm a professional helicopter pilot (retired military) who just can't get enough flying and is getting back into home flight sims.

I am currently making my own YUH-61A virtual aircraft for X-Plane and my research led me here.

I'm very interested in all aspects of manned flight, not just helicopters, for any mission set or era. That said, Cold War military aircraft draw my attention the most.

The engineering aspects fascinate me, so much so that I subjected myself to late-in-life post-graduate work in aerospace engineering.

 

[KarlSack]

Hello,

I'm a professional helicopter pilot (retired military) who just can't get enough flying and is getting back into home flight sims.

I am currently making my own YUH-61A virtual aircraft for X-Plane and my research led me here.

I'm very interested in all aspects of manned flight, not just helicopters, for any mission set or era. That said, Cold War military aircraft draw my attention the most.

The engineering aspects fascinate me, so much so that I subjected myself to late-in-life post-graduate work in aerospace engineering.

It's never to late to further educate! Welcome aboard!

 

[pannzer06]

Hello my name is Hernan, I´m just interested in jet engines

 

[Purplemadness]

Hello everyone. I'm here for the same reason most of us are, military history and in my case especially the aviation side of things. Good to be here

 

[hydra1234]

Hello!

I'm here to learn more about unbuilt projects and designs, partially out of curiosity and partially for some alternate history stuff I'm writing. My interests lay with the process of design and procurement for big military projects, as well as naval history, particularly the late 19th and early to mid 20th centuries.

 

[justinfire]

hello I'm here to learn; I have always been open minded but also lately have been hearing more aerospace history which is really interesting because I had family history in aviation

 

[KarlSack]

hello I'm here to learn; I have always been open minded but also lately have been hearing more aerospace history which is really interesting because I had family history in aviation

Welcome! What family history was in aviation?

 

[Uncle Smith]

Hey guys,

My name is Phil, I'm 33 y.o. and I'm from Letchworth, England. I am a civil engineer by the trade, but very much into human space flight and exploration of another celestial bodies. Couple years ago, I've started building a space flight sim for Orbiter 2016 and started digging into nuclear propulsion systems for manned missions to Mars and beyond. Researching all those fascinating designs from 60s-70s (such as M-19, the Star raker, etc.) led me here.

Cheers!

 

[KarlSack]

Hey guys,

My name is Phil, I'm 33 y.o. and I'm from Letchworth, England. I am a civil engineer by the trade, but very much into human space flight and exploration of another celestial bodies. Couple years ago, I've started building a space flight sim for Orbiter 2016 and started digging into nuclear propulsion systems for manned missions to Mars and beyond. Researching all those fascinating designs from 60s-70s (such as M-19, the Star raker, etc.) led me here.

Cheers!

Welcome Phil! Sorry for my ignorance but what do you mean by building a space flight simulator? Do you mean coding your own sim module?

The closest I got to building a flight simulator was when I was 8 years old and my Dad wanted to throw away our old wooden see-saw. I begged him to keep it for one more summer. I drilled a hole on one end through the seat area; stuck an old mop in an old bucket and filled it with cement. When the cement cured, I stuck the handle end through the hole in the see-saw and attached it with rope and used it like a joy-stick. I had a counter-weight on the other end to balance things out. When I moved the stick forward, the see-saw went up and when I moved the stick back, the end went down. When my Dad came home for lunch and saw what I had done, he rushed back to his work to get a long grey carpet runner and we used it like a run way. He pretended he was the control tower with his walkie-talkie and I had mine asking permission to land. That summer I collected over $8 by charging my neighbours $0.10 for a ride on my simulator!

 

[Uncle Smith]

Welcome Phil! Sorry for my ignorance but what do you mean by building a space flight simulator? Do you mean coding your own sim module?

The closest I got to building a flight simulator was when I was 8 years old and my Dad wanted to throw away our old wooden see-saw. I begged him to keep it for one more summer. I drilled a hole on one end through the seat area; stuck an old mop in an old bucket and filled it with cement. When the cement cured, I stuck the handle end through the hole in the see-saw and attached it with rope and used it like a joy-stick. I had a counter-weight on the other end to balance things out. When I moved the stick forward, the see-saw went up and when I moved the stick back, the end went down. When my Dad came home for lunch and saw what I had done, he rushed back to his work to get a long grey carpet runner and we used it like a run way. He pretended he was the control tower with his walkie-talkie and I had mine asking permission to land. That summer I collected over $8 by charging my neighbours $0.10 for a ride on my simulator!

Hi Karl,

What a brilliant story! I bet it was fun to play And you've made some money as a bonus! haha
By slight simulator I meant real hardware one Of course some programming is involved to connect it to Orbiter software sim, which is not as straightforward as with Xplane or DCS for example.
Unfortunately, I live in apartment right now and have not adequate space for building simpit shell (aka crew compartment), but different control and display equipment are being built right now, such as:

1. Primary MFD (24” LCD)
2. Auxiliary MFDs (2x 10” LCD’s)
3. Fuel quantity indicator (4” square LCD)
4. Rotational hand controller – my interpretation of Apollo Command module RHC. Translational controller will follow.

I've attached some of WIP pictures to give an idea of my endeavour