Spirit of St. Louis - Cockpit Experience Development - Part One
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- Опубліковано 16 січ 2024
- OK, Gang, here’s a bit of a progress report on what we’re working on for ACT III: an immersive cockpit experience of the Spirit of St. Louis!
Kermit Weeks
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Keep the Spirit of St. Louis intact and build a separate enclosed simulator that people can access. A flying example is much more inspiring!
Just a thought here. Instead of having the seat move so that people can get in it and roll/slide up into the cockpit area, how about having part of the fuselage slide backward along with the seat, so people can get into the seat more easily (not all can squeeze into a tight spot so it would allow more people to enjoy the experience). It would keep people from possibly hitting their head. Once seated, the fuselage slides up into place with the cockpit portion as if it were all one piece. This way you could have a much more robust sliding mechanism underneath for strength and reliability. Less maintenance.
KISS! Simple answer. Some sealed roller bearings riding inside of some channel iron. We have used them to make many slide-out units. Simple to shield to keep little fingers out of contact with the rollers.
I love the idea of the 'inner experience' of flight. I also think that I know what Kermit wants for the seat mechanism, but not sure the team have quite grasped it yet! However it will be great when it is finished!
I think that all 'inner experiences' are made in conjunction with input from our surroundings. The 'inner experience' Kermit relates to also comes from flying the real deals. So I think, as a basis, the visitor should get the most realistic experience, even if pulleys are needed. The difference to a simulator, is that this experience is a more passive one, absorbing the environment and its atmosphere.
Yet, touching a control for 'inner reflection' and feeling bungee cords, may alter the 'inner experience' in an unintended way.
Kermit, make all the instrument panel and 2 side windows with screens. One huge floor to ceiling screen. Keeps the safety but you can then bring in the sounds etc.
Love the Idea but your guys are building a Air frame not a attraction. Might want to look at the scale and size of it. Ya its cool to say this is the exact size of the Spirit of St. Louis, but you need to build it as an attraction with accessibly at the fore front. Like you said you do not want to many distractions. One huge distraction is how tight and confined that space is. A bit of a uncomfortable feeling is a good thing but too much will become a distraction to your audio message that is the hard thing is the balance. Thanks for the update and cannot wait to see more.
Awesome as always. Blessings
Awesome channel kermit, quality machinery.🙏🇬🇧🇺🇸
HI KERMIT !!--MY FAVORITE AEROPLANE,--IS THE "LOCKHEED-VEGA"-A PERFECT "ART-DECO" DESIGN,--AND LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOUR BEAUTIFUL EXAMPLE AGAIN-& THE SOUND, OF THAT ENGINE "TICKING-OVER"--!!-WOW !!
Cool, thanks! A Vega update is coming soon!
Thank you for sharing. You have a wonderful museum. I hope to visit again this year.🙂🙂
Another idea for a seat track could be to just rob one from a junker Cessna, and remove the stop mechanism. This would give you a proven, off-the-shelf track and roller system made for that exact purpose. You might have to find longer tracks than the standard 172 would have, but you could also probably get the same or similar track from the rear of a 400 (414, 425, etc)series Cessna. It's an option.
Sounds great for visitors. Another attraction could be a B-25 cockpit situated on a simulated flight deck recreating the weather and pitching deck that Doolittle faced before taking off from the Hornet.
Working on several different experiences, including a B-17 crew - multiple person mission.
Will be awesome when completed. Thank You
Great video! Looking forward to the next update vlog!
Did the VIP tour back in December! Was great to see the museum I loved as a kid again.
Love your videos kermit and appreciate what you're doing. Thanks
It's a great idea I like the tactical part of the experience, sitting in the cockpit mockup.
Maybe the addition of video projections (multiple screens?) outside and a voice narrator could bring this into becoming a kind of diorama experience, eg. its dark outside, you look out of the side window and down and see the ocean in the moonlight and a narration of an actor playing as Lindbergh is telling of his exhaustion and stress as he is out in the middle of nowhere and in the darkness.
That would be a cool experience :)
Cheers,
Great stuff Kermit and Ken, thanks!
Glad you enjoyed it
Love your work, but have you figured out who will continue your work when the time comes?
Im just a simple guy from the Netherlands but i would love to visit Fantasy of Flight...Seems like these guys, like Kermit, Paul and Ken are such familiar faces now...Together with the beautiful collection...
Will you ever meet up with Mr BLakey from BlakeY engine services???
Interesting Kermit, I've seen the outside of the Spirit of St. Louis many times at the Smithsonian, but it would be interesting to see the cockpit since unlike other planes I've flown you can't see out the front, or how tight the space was or was not.
That’s exactly what I want everyone to experience.
Florida flurries? from Canada!..
Pacific Bearing has linear rollers perfect what you need
Got motion picture dolly wheels and track.
Man that pilot seat is size SF, no?. Super Fat LOL
Roller Blade wheels would work well, small have there own ball bearings and don't cost much. Use an angle beam for the track and you could mount wheels on top and bottom of the track and that would hold it on like a roller coaster.
You’ll see in a coming update, we got professional motion picture dolly track and wheels.
Kermit, my friend. recruit a few "imagineeers" and let them invent...then approve or not. You have to sell the vision and then let others make it...your talents and time are too valuable to stay in the weeds too much. You're a good man with exceptional ideas. We are behind you on this but you have to let some of the little things go to the"kids" that can make the Dream reality. Rock on, Sir... Rock on.
Already working with top theme park designers. Too early to bring them in on this particular experience, at this stage.
Imagineers 🙄 Stop it, please.
Thanks Kermit.....Shoe🇺🇸
Kermit, might I suggest you find a live theater tech director somewhere, and entice him to share a few hours of his experience? Possibly someone from a local university theater, or a dinner theater, or something like that.
There are all kinds of theatrical rigging products available off the shelf that could be adapted to that seat roller problem, and most of them will be a lot smaller than those wheels. There's also plastic caning material that is a lot cheaper than getting real caning done for the seat. It can look very close to the real thing. That seat is a wear surface, and is likely to get cuts and holes poked in it from people having junk in their hip pockets. That's a very common problem with theater seats. You will probably need two seats, one in use, and one to replace the one in use when it gets compromised. The one not in use can get new caning without taking the attraction down.
A theater TD that has been around for a few years will be able to suggest all sorts of solutions that I suspect your people are unlikely to find on their own, simply because they know airplanes, not tech theater. And what you are building is a theatrical experience, so it makes sense to get someone onboard (at least part time, or occasional consultant) that knows theater.
Already been working with top theme park designers. This concept is just a spaghetti phase.
Have the seat stationary and drop the cockpit down from above.
Hallo echt super ich baue Modellflugzeuge und habe die Spirit of St. Louis in M1:3 und liebe deinen Kanal Liebe Grüße aus Deutschland Stefan
Even your own coworkers don’t know where you’re talking about…
16:27 ->
May of 2027 is the solo trans Atlantic 100 year anniversary... will she be done in time?
Great idea for your attraction going step by step to ACT III. If you want to let people experience different cockpits in the long run, why not do a mockup of.a P-51 (or P-47) cockpit, and for comparison a mockup cockpit of a Bf (Me) 109? Though the latter might restrict admission simply by size.
There will be multiple cockpit experiences.
I was totally happy when I sat in Blanik L-13 to get my wings with my six foot two inch statue. Now I got one in my garage and and smaller people comes in and say it is gramped. So when you have a goal like learning to fly or go to the moon your motivation gives the space for you, heck the others.
Kermit - a question, a bit off this subject.
Years ago, I think early '80's, I saw a Spirit of St Louis replica at Republic airport, Farmindale, NY. The young dashing pilot was dressed in a replica Lindberg flying outfit.
Was that you? Yes or no, a found memory.
Chemical thermal or mechanical?
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Kermit reminds me of Gallagher…
I got the Sledge-O-Matic too!
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It seems too delicate for hands/on by the general public.
There just needs to be a trained ride operator to ensure the general public doesn't damage it.
You're saying the rider has to go through special training to get in? Did you notice the trouble Kermit had and he's flown it? :D @@jamesburns2232
You guys are doing a great job. Maybe take the parts you're working with to Granger, or Dixie Bearings and tell them what you're trying to do and let them show you what they have that will work.
Hmmmm!
I don't like to say it, but the youth of today are not really interested. I've been to your place in Florida- and loved it.
I admire the ambition, but what about building all of this in the virtual world? The technology is at the point where you could accomplish a lot of of what Kermit's vision seems to be.
Want it to be a physical immersive experience, not computers
Maybe contact companies that build amusement park rides. They may have or know about some of these pieces you need. Just a thot.
Are you used to calculate all the airplane' s stuff. Mathematics and physics
Don’t know. I think Kermit is loosing it a bit.
Ken needs to retire
I’m his daughter. I’m make sure to tell him.
@@abbiekellett9196 thanks
Mixed reality VR? Set it up like a full motion simulator?