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  1. cplatt

    Need suggestions for a flight simulator.

    Thanks Greg for the reply. The system of course has a neg feedback loop for the pneumatic cylinders...good to a 100th of a mm. Problem is air is a compressible gas. In other words it acts like a giant spring. Try moving a load on the end of a spring around. It is very difficult. The gas...
  2. cplatt

    Need suggestions for a flight simulator.

    Forgot to add hydraulic...leaving that out due to the dangerous nature of 1,000 to 3,000 PSI running around. Thank you, the reduction of stroke length suggestion is really helpful but sadly would still not help with the accuracy and precision of pneumatics...
  3. cplatt

    Need suggestions for a flight simulator.

    ​ Hello and thank you for looking 😀.  I have loved flight simulators for 50 years and finally tried to build one myself.  I have come up with one thats basically an upright hemisphere mounted on omni-directional wheeled frame for support.  Unfortunately I cant come up with a method of simulator...

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