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My A340 Project Adventure Begins
As you can see below, it all started August 28, 2002. My
wife (Marcia) and I discussed this project in great detail.
I'm grateful to have such a supportive wife, which seems
to be the unusual, so I hear. The project started quite
rapidly, I was able to put together the frame work for the
pedestal and MIPS rather quickly. I have to admit.... It
was redone many times..
I'll use this space in the other galleries to recollect
some of my thoughts and share them with you.
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August 25, 2002
This is where it all started. Pedestal..took all of two days
just to get this far.
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Day 3
Front panel dividers on its way... no it doesn't fly
yet.
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Day 3
Finished with some braces and Marshall (my son) helped started
working on the sidestick pedestal.
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DAY 6
Getting there... and starting to take shape.
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DAY 7
Starting to look like something. Marcia (my wife) says "sure
looks like a funny looking Lemonade stand", yeah, right.
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SEPTEMBER 30, 2002
Marcia and I sold our house in Michigan and picked up a few
things to take back to IL. Including a IBM AS400 a gift from
my son. It must weigh a 1000 lbs. (no joke). My son (Mark)
and I tried to reposition it in the trailer, and could not.
Had to get his pickup truck and pull the case to move it.
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OCTOBER 7, 2002
Taking out the components of the AS400. I plan on using the
case and it's power supply to rack my computers for the SIM.
Check out the Tape drive on the floor, next to the case, it
weighs 71 lbs.
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OCTOBER 10, 2002
Got everything out of the case. Now I'm ready to build my
system.
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OCTOBER 10, 2002
Power supply as I got it, it was a 240 volt system. I'm converting
it to 120 volt.
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OCTOBER 18, 2002
Power unit back in the case.
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OCTOBER 31, 2002
Assembling FligtSim-1 Server (Center Projection View). Full
size Rackmount case. Btw... for some reason, my wife does
not like me using the dinning room table for a workbench:).
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NOVEMBER 1, 2002
Assembing FlightSim-PFD1 2U Rackmount..
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NOVEMBER 2, 2002
Loading OS, software and testing system....IT WORKS!.
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NOVEMBER 3, 2002
Mounted the Computers in the case. Top case is the DC power
supply for the simulator, 2nd is a empty case soon to be FlightSim
ECAM. 3rd is the FlightSim PF/ND Cpt, and 4th FlightSim-1,
Server. More stuff to come ... later..
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NOVEMBER 3, 2002
Back Side.
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NOVEMBER 3, 2002
Got the Epic boards earlier this week. Mounted the boards
on 1/4" Lexan, I will add a hinge to the left side and
hang it on the back rack of the cas.
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November 5, 2002
Epic boards in place, hanging with a hinge off of the back
rack in the case. I'll end up moving it about three notches
down.
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NOVEMBER 5, 2002
Backside of EPIC Boards. DC power wiring to the modules...
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