Wonderful effort and result. Been watching on the sidelines after getting this a sticky, but just phenomenally wonderful.
Many thanks dude, much apreciated...and yup, I'm having fun
Looking good there Gary, a fair amount of progress since last yrs show!
I have been a bit busy on her and was shocked, to say the least, to pick up an award this year. I was not expecting anything like that !.
Soooo, whats been happening since my last update...errrr absolutely nothing until yesterday.
Walked out to the shangar at 09:00 and came back in at around 17:50 !. Spent that time on making an interface between the throttle and a computer joystick so when I take her on her next outing (which is this next week at Martlesham Heath Control Tower Museum
RAF Martlesham Heath Aviation Society MHAS Home Page)....I'm hoping to be able to let peeps sit in a '51 and go through the startup and then play with throttle. Once that was done, I then mounted the main home computers sound system (1 X Bass Woofer and 5 satellite speakers) onto the seat sub frame. Only problem was, after I gotten her all reassembled yesterday, I had a thought at stoopid o'clock this morning that I'd mounted the cut down computer joystick the wrong way around so the throttle linkage was reversed.
Walked back out to the shangar at 09:00 this morning, de-rivetted everything...again !...and sure 'nuff, it was all rse about face. No probs, half an hour late all remounted and thought I'd plug it into my spare computer...and the comp refused to recognise the stick....Grrrrrr. So, backup plan K (I always have a a few
) and it was out with a spare stick and.....
You have no idea how happy I am that I can sit in my '51, start up the Merlin by going through the start up procedure (only spoiled by the fact that I then have to press Control E on the comp top start the engine in the flight sim, but hey, early days yet !) and then sit back and push that loud lever towards the end stop....
OMFG ! What a gloriously frikkin loud experience
. I've never sat in a Mustang with the engine running, but I do know its a little bit noisy...in my '51 with the speakers essentially working in an enclosed environment that the cockpit makes, I reckon its pretty near enough a loud as in real life.
I got the missus to try it out and she couldn't stop grinning, I got my daughter to try it out...and she couldn't stop grinning, I had to try it out again...and I'm still grinning
With the speakers mounted on the seat subframe and the bass woofer directly under the seat pan.....not only do I get the full force of the sound (the armour plate seems to channel it all upwards to your head) but also the vibrations from the woofer to boot, she really comes to life !.
Still have a whole heap of things to do to her, but now I've spent the weekend back working on her, I'm back in the mood so there will be more to follow very soon. Stay tooned