Gunner's Pit

Atlas · Post by **Atlas** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 8:47 pm

Looks like he is having an awesome summer break.

Post by **Redeye** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:04 pm

For Gunner's pit.....check the video on the right side of the page.

http://www.cimflightdecks.com/

Rolling left and rolling......

Ells · Post by **Ells** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 12:20 pm

lol, nice find Redeye.

Looks kinda slippery though standing on that

Burner · Post by **Burner** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 1:57 pm

The 6DOF model is only 19000Euro. The 2DOF with seat is only 5300Euro. Crazy but not the outrageous kind of crazy.

Post by **Lawndart** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 2:03 pm

Burner wrote:Crazy but not the outrageous kind of crazy.

You mean like this: http://www.realsimulator.com/html/cockpit_he.html

60,000 EUR ($82K USD).

Looks just like Gunner's pit... and I know Gunner didn't pay that much!

Post by **Gunner** » Thu Jul 12, 2007 7:38 pm

Or this

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http://www.24244169.dk/

79,500 euro ($109,519 US)

Seeing these makes the work on mine seem so worth it

Major update soon...

Post by **Gunner** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:36 pm

Finished the center pedestal today...

A few goodies I have acquired recently...

I obviously need to change the instrument faces and bezels, but the instruments were super cheap & I want to see if I can utilize the backlighting & such...The panels came from Mike Williams over at "Viperpit.org" if you want to see some real Viper pits, browse over there - It's unbelievable what some of these guys are doing!

And this guy wasn't so cheap, but it's the real thing and fits perfect! Now I just need to figure out how I can get Krista to swing a big magnet around as I fly!

Tailhook · Post by **Tailhook** » Sat Jul 14, 2007 10:39 pm

dang you are a thunder nut

Cobra · Post by **Cobra** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 4:25 am

Those BMEP guages are interesting. They have no place on an F-16 of course but I was wondering if you knew which aircraft they came off?

Rhino · Post by **Rhino** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:25 am

TWC_Cobra wrote:Those BMEP guages are interesting. They have no place on an F-16 of course but I was wondering if you knew which aircraft they came off?

I just thought the same thing myself. They look to be to a 4 engined piston powered aircraft. I wonder if it may be a B-17 or B-24, maybe even a DC-4?

Post by **Gunner** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 10:52 am

TWC_Cobra wrote:Those BMEP guages are interesting. They have no place on an F-16 of course but I was wondering if you knew which aircraft they came off?

They came from ebay - the guy only knew they were from a US military aircraft, obviously four engine. All I care about is they are standard 3" and the face plate can be changed out.

In the beginning, my instruments will just be dummies, but I'll have the option of interfacing working gauges.

Post by **Panther** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 3:43 pm

Hey you want to build my pit too?

Awesome work, I can't wait to see your finished project

Cobra · Post by **Cobra** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 5:40 pm

Rhino wrote: I just thought the same thing myself. They look to be to a 4 engined piston powered aircraft. I wonder if it may be a B-17 or B-24, maybe even a DC-4?

I don't think they are off a DC-4. The reason I say that is because the engine on the DC-4 was the P&W R-2000 Twin row Wasp, the same engine that was on the Caribou that I used to fly and we didn't have a BMEP guage for those.

I am thinking maybe they were for a compound engine, maybe off a KC-97 or something like that...

Cobra · Post by **Cobra** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:05 pm

Found them on a DC-7 cockpit in Airliners.net

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/0234271/M

I was right about them being compound engines. 4× Wright R-3350-18EA1 Turbo-Compound radial piston engines , 3,400 hp

Post by **Gunner** » Sun Jul 15, 2007 7:56 pm

Thank you Cobra...nice to know where they came from even though I'm going to dissect 'em.