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5 high school kids build working life-size BSG Viper flight simulator
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This is awesome: A group of high school kids have spent the past year
working on a life-sized, Battlestar Galactica Viper flight simulator.
Guess what: It works!
The Viper, which is basically a fully-functional cockpit mounted so it
can spin a full 360-degrees in "flight," was built with everything from
scrapped airplane parts to an old race car seat.
The kids even made all the control mechanisms, and designed the
simulation software themselves.
The final version is on display at Maker Faire 2012 festival in
California this week. The project was funded via Kickstarter=A0 , and
raised a whopping $11,578.
Check out the closest thing you'll ever get to a real Viper in action
below:
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Sound off: Do you wish you could take this thing for a spin?
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robert
2012-05-22 23:34:09 UTC
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5 high school kids build working life-size BSG Viper flight simulator
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This is awesome: A group of high school kids have spent the past year
working on a life-sized, Battlestar Galactica Viper flight simulator.
Guess what: It works!
The Viper, which is basically a fully-functional cockpit mounted so it
can spin a full 360-degrees in "flight," was built with everything from
scrapped airplane parts to an old race car seat.
The kids even made all the control mechanisms, and designed the
simulation software themselves.
The final version is on display at Maker Faire 2012 festival in
California this week. The project was funded via Kickstarter  , and
raised a whopping $11,578.
Check out the closest thing you'll ever get to a real Viper in action
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Sound off: Do you wish you could take this thing for a spin?
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RT
2012-06-01 14:15:23 UTC
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5 high school kids build working life-size BSG Viper flight simulator
https://sites.google.com/site/mf2012theviper/
Your Name
2012-06-01 22:28:07 UTC
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5 high school kids build working life-size BSG Viper flight simulator
https://sites.google.com/site/mf2012theviper/
It's not really a "Viper flight simulator", it's more like a Viper sit-in
video arcade game inside an old Cessna casing.

There's someone else who built a life-size Millennium Flacon


and another person planning to do the same http://fullscalefalcon.com
The Saltex Brujo
2012-06-06 01:24:43 UTC
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Re: 5 high school kids build working life-size BSG Viper flight
simulator

Group: alt.battlestar-galactica Date: Sat, Jun 2, 2012, 10:28am (EDT+16)
From: ***@YourISP.com (Your=A0Name)
In article <***@hotmail.com>, RT
<***@hotmail.com> wrote:
robert wrote:
On May 22, 1:55 pm, ***@webtv.net (The Saltex Brujo) wrote:
5 high school kids build working life-size BSG Viper flight simulator
https://sites.google.com/site/mf2012theviper/
It's not really a "Viper flight simulator", it's more like a Viper
sit-in video arcade game inside an old Cessna casing.
There's someone else who built a life-size Millennium Flacon

and another person planning to do the same http://fullscalefalcon.com

i used to like to draw starships. as i was not very good, i had to draw
'plan' views: side shots, front, back, above. i was pretty good at some
ships [vipers, eagles. trek], but star wars had me stumped. the
millwenium flacom was an asymmetric nightmare and tie fighters were
squares when viewed from the side and star destroyers big arrowheads.

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Clu
2012-07-06 22:26:57 UTC
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5 high school kids build working life-size BSG Viper flight simulator
https://sites.google.com/site/mf2012theviper/
Ahhh... new series Viper. Gotcha. I can appreciate the effort.

Someday I'm going to make a classic series Viper. I kinda started on
the project with a Atari 400 and a closet when I was a kid and later
when I had my own apartment. Might need to try that again.
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It's not really a "Viper flight simulator", it's more like a Viper sit-in
video arcade game inside an old Cessna casing.
There's someone else who built a life-size Millennium Flacon
http://youtu.be/SU8nKYg87FA
That is a funny video. Just the understandable frustration behind that.

Jubal

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