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Steve Glasgow
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 Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:00 am Post subject: This looks like fun! |
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PENSACOLA, Fla.(AP) Ever watched "Top Gun" and wondered if you had what it
takes to evade surface-to-air missiles in an F-14 Tomcat? An exhibit that
opened this week at the National Museum of Naval Aviation is giving would-be
flyboys the chance to climb into the cockpit of a real F-14 military
training simulator and experience a 20-minute joyride.
Flyers can grab the flight stick and experience mock air-to-air combat,
practice carrier landings or simply cruise over Las Vegas, Iraq, Miramar,
Calif., and other simulated sites.
"Everyone can be a hero in a simulator," said retired Marine Col. Deej
Kiely, a fighter pilot in Vietnam and the museum's spokesman. "If they are
proficient enough, they can mess around with the radar and lock up targets,
they can interact with each other. I think for these purposes it's close
enough to the real thing."
The only other F-14 simulators open to the public are at Patuxent River
Naval Air Museum in Maryland, said Dave Kinney, owner of Eaglesims. The San
Clemente, Calif.-based company converts retired military trainers and
aircraft for public use.
"You get them and save them. They are rare pieces of art," Kinney said. "The
experience is priceless for an airplane junkie who has dreamed for a long
time about what it's like to sit in a Tomcat with all the actual controls."
Workers spent many hours working out how to keep the maximum number of
levers, switches and alarms active in the four simulators while ensuring the
experience would still be fun for those who have never sat in a cockpit
before, Kinney said.
The exhibit coincides with last month's retirement of the F-14 Tomcat, the
fighter jet immortalized in the 1986 movie "Top Gun," and includes plaques
and patches from actual Tomcat squadrons.
Visitors sit through a video and "cockpit orientation training" before
climbing into the cockpit and watching the action on a video screen about as
big as a laptop computer's. The experience costs $20.
Cappy
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 6:20 am Post subject: This looks like fun! |
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That looks very interesting. Where did you see this? I searched and could
not find any web references.
Paul D. Franzon
Alumni Distinguished Professor of ECE,
443 Monteith GRC
ECE, Box 7911, Raleigh, NC 27695
MRC 223, 2410 Campus Shore Dr., Raleigh NC 27604
paulf(at)ncsu.edu , www.ece.ncsu.edu/erl/faculty/paulf.html
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:37 am Post subject: This looks like fun! |
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RR Headline News.
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