I joined this channel about midway through you cutting the frame for the collimated display... FOURTEEN YEARS AGO. and somehow, your content is STILL exciting.
Lots of memories here for me. I was a B-shopper at the 33rd FW in the 60th FS. We had 78, 79, 80, 82, and (a few) 85 models. Some I believe came from Bitburg. I love your project and hope you see it through!
She's in a LOT better condition than last I saw her. And a lot less grass involved! LOL Great to see you back at it. Will watch religiously. Thanks, Gene!
Gene, glad to see you back at it after so many years! Well timed, I just read Paul Woodford's blog entry as the Mishap Investigator then thought, "I wonder if there are any updates to the sim?"
FYI, the Counter Display Unit (CDU) advances one of the appropriate G counter by 1 at the apex of each g maneuver to log airframe stresses. The CDU receives input from the Counter Accelerometer Unit located in the right MLG wheel well. The G events are transcribed into the aircraft forms by the crewchief after each sortie. The same I spent 23 years as an Eagle avionics troop and currently teach F-15 Avionics. I'm looking forward to seeing what the future has in store for this project.
I was at the airshow with my father and 2 of my brothers Aged 9 and 16 I was 8 years at the time, and we ran threw a small forrest/treeline of pinetrees…to the fench..having a good view at the F15, still having the engines running at full speed … A teenage boy was hiding at a spot not allowed..seems he has taken some really good picture..i hope to see them at one time The shrimpboat story is a true story, behold that it is not the reason why he crashed..that was just a pilot mishap The first time i saw your channel..my brother showed it on his 4mb download pc
My cousin worked for McD in STL for 40 years, could have helped with the connections problem. He was in the area where aircraft were sent from customers to STL for service, etc. The AF would load them up and send flights of 4, sometimes with one radio and all junk. Also in the timeframe you speak of, Sony projection boxes were getting cheap. I've got 2 still in the warehouse I'd have given you then. They were broadcast grade, but ones that you'd find in such as clubs or larger areas were coming available. They have builtin convergence so you can focus and adjust the geometry to fit whatever you wish. Unfortunately all NTSC which is now not that interesting. Korea made displays so cheap I imagine you might do all in that now. Great to see your summary, and great job making the panels to repopulate the cockpit. It'll be great to see what you do with it down the line.
@@f15sim I'll check with one of his sons. He is still working there, I think. He might have a hint as to maybe an alumni association or such for such employees. I don't know if any of the current production personnel could help you or how they are working on the current version of the F-15. I run the Microdata / McDonnell Douglas / Novadyne alumni group may be one for ex STL McD on the F-15 program somewhere.
@@jw0stephens That would be cool, thank you! You can DM me on Facebook if you find anything. These days I don't need parts as much as I need information *about* parts, like illustrated parts breakdowns.
40:35 interesting how the roll axis gets connected sideways to the left and into the floor. I always assumed it went straight through the triangle and directly underneath into the hydraulic valves Also once you modernize it with aliexpress/ebay steering dampers that’s going to feel real nice. Even without the cams to remove the center sloppiness just having those will improve the feel 1000x. Just feeling hydraulic resistance is going to bring the controls alive
Great project I have an F4C Phantom and restored it as a photo booth. Used it for about 10 yrs and still have it. Built an F18 cockpit.to use in VR and DCS. Let me know if you need help with this
Rumor has it that there's going to be an F4 coming soon for DCS. Ya'll might want to dig into that F4C again. :D Hit me up on FB - I've got some things I need to talk to you about. :)
Just watching the vid now, but didnt realize you have the entire flightstick column intact. I wonder if i could make a version of my cam design as stand alone units you could connect the existing linkages to, and then run hydraulic steering dampers under the floor too to really get the stick field dialed in
Also Noctum at open hornet has really great stick force data for the hornet, I wonder how to track down the same data sheets for the F-15C, things like breakout force and stick loading at specific deflection in inches. Then the cams could be shaped to exactly represent those forces, and the slightly nicer aliexpress steering dampers have tuning dials so the breakout force can be set correctly
@@rightrudderleftstick The F-15 is kind of a weird beast with control loading. It's both fly by wire AND hydro-mechanical. I don't know if the F/A-18 uses a similar system. I recall that the system loads at 2.9lb of pull per G, so the max resistance is going to be around 26lbs at 9G.
50:22 keep it and hook it up to emulate the “record” input for nvida shadowplay or OBS video recording. In IL2 I’ve setup my guns/canons as a gun cam (with 60 seconds of preroll) and it’s a lot of fun to have.
So funny thing about that - I've got both the original HUD camera, and the VSD cameras, including the controller interfaces for them - they're untested, but may actually still work. the output would normally go to the 8mm VTR, but I bet I could tease a working video signal out of them. :)
I'm not sure. I was told that it came from a jet that was taking off near max gross and one of the engines died on takeoff, so the pilot punched out of it. It crashed straight ahead and broke in half at the same joint mine did. The back half burned nearly completely. The impact also split both HUD combiner lenses in half. Sadly, this is the best photo I have of that: www.f15sim.com/images/hud_left.jpg
Wow! I would pay a great amount for that throttle! Ha! If you need information on making it work with the sim, I can help. I have interfaces F-16 throttles and many others. You can make it all work with just a usb cable, and a 12 dollar arduino. Even the transducer tdc works!
Hey, so I see you have your military type displays like your mfd, hud, and vsd wired to simple vga and power cables. Could you provide information on how you did this as I have some newer military multi functional displays I would like to convert! -Regards
Originally it was: Step 1. Remove and discard contents of MFD, MPCD, VSD, etc. Step 2. Spend an eye watering amount of money (in year 2000 dollars) obtaining VGA CRTs that would fit in the available space. These days you can find LCD panels that are close enough to the correct size that you can use them on the cheap. If you want 1:1 aspect ratio panels in the 5-8" range, expect to spend thousands of dollars if you can find them. (and this is a MIGHTY big "if")
Ah I see. I thought you used tue original screens. I wanted to use the original screens as since they are milspec I am sure the quality and refresh rate is crazy good. There apache mfs screens but am trying to use with my F-16 sim. They are colored screens too!
If you'll send me your email address, I can forward that on to a friend that just got an F-5 cockpit section. He may be able to help you out with the control stick drawings. As to the "force feel mechanism", are you referring to what simmers would call "force feedback"? If so, check out this guy: www.laserwing.com/miniffb - I'm going to be using a modified version of his system to put a control feel system into the F-15. It can be done for under about $1200.
@@f15sim No, I mean the actual force feel system on the actual aircraft. Springs plus additional forces in function of current G force via weight bob. Also please note that while F-5A and F-5E are quite similar the control system in the area of the force feel assembly has seen a significant redesign hence resources from the A variant (or T-38 Talon for that matter) may not translate directly to the E variant.
@@f15sim I'm after information on the real thing in order to build my DIY flight controls better :) Apart from the artificial feel system there's also an additional force spring in the roll channel to limit roll in normal flight but provide additional authority for the purpose of landing. F-5E is renowned for its simplicity but a lot of thought went into the design of the control system.
