Dehavilland dove base project

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Thx !

It is a bit of a slow month , building wise that is . But the altimeters are working !!!!

Happy holidays!

[remcosol]

Well it's time for a little update again.

The last couple of months the temperature in my shed was a bit to low to work in but it has warmed up nicely now!

The first big thing that i did was finally building the power supply housing. In here all the voltages i need are safely stored.
The voltages are: 5, 12 (pc power supply), 26 v dc. 26v ac, 26v and 115v ac /400hz. Also a cooling fan has been installed to get a slight airflow in the unit.

Also a new computer has been build to run FSX/ prepar3d only.
Some specs:

Coolermaster housing
i7 2600k oc 4.6 ghz
8 gb 1600 mhz memory (corsair vengeance)
2x ssd drives , 60gb for windows , 120 gb for fsx, ozc vertex 3
1x ATI 5870 matrox edition card ( might need a quicker card)
H70 water cooling
And an asus sabertooth motherboard.

And the 3 samsung 23 inch screens i already had have finally found there way up to the panel.

The last thing i did was rebuild the manifoldpressure indicator (from a flightsimulator so not a real one). It was damaged beyond repair saidly enough. Althoug my tools i needed to make it didnt work anymore i did get it to work in the end . Not a fine mechanical job but it works.....

Power supply pictures:










Then six wires transport the power to the power distribution panel i buildright top side)




The mess i usually make :



Also the 3 screens have been fitted and might need to be re-fitted :









And the manifold pressure in pieces and put back together:















And some movie clips of the stuff working:

Shutdown:



And playing around with the throttle:



And some flying: Altimeters also working.


Stall:



So the next thing to do is finish the engine instruments , they are ready to be installed. The altimeter needs to be improved with a better stepper motor and also all the compasses and adf/vor needles need proper 200step/360 degree stepper motors wich are hard to f

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2 More man. press pictures

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A little update , we've been working hard on the engine instruments and I'm proud to say they are almost finished . Also the turn and slip indicators are working.
More on that later !

Some more news on the history of the dove !!!!
This was the aircraft :

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19? The aircraft was registered as G-ALTM.

19? The aircraft was acquired by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC).

22Jun1955 The aircraft crashed at Heathrow Airport, London, UK.

19? The aircraft was painted as 'N764JN" for a film.

19? The aircraft was acquired by a film making company and destroyed in the making of a film.

The last bit is we're we came in , this was around 1988 . In a studio in Amsterdam we dismantled the aircraft . Just need a picture now

All this info thanks to this site:
http://www.cnapg.net/dove.htm

[remcosol]

A small update , all the engine instruments are working and also the turn and slip indicators . More on that later !
Here a small picture

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Last weeks we've been finishing the engine instruments , the connection between fsx and the instruments are again sioc script driven servo motors .

Some building pics:









The finished product:







The backside of the panel is getting full:



Clip of them working

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Also both seats have been installed , a picture at Innsbruck :



And here some startup taxi and take off clips . Not great quality but it gives a nice impression :

Power up by using battery isolation switch and the ground flight switch:



Engine start , first opening fuel selectors and switching on fuel pumps:



Engine testing :



Taxi out , into a bus . :



Scenery demonstration:



Takeoff , it could be a sharper image but gets better after a couple seconds when the camera focuses :



And climb out with a nice view of Innsbruck , the orange light on the dashboard is the inner marker of Innsbruck going on and off later on

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After a couple of months it's time for a small update:

Initially I bought an ati 7970 direct cuii top 3 gb graphics card and thought it would be great for fsx...... But no.


The ati 7970 is gone, it gave a lot of problems especially with 3 screens and 30 fps. I always had problems with micro stutters! In the end I was able to bring it back to the store . In stead I bought an evga 680 with 4 gb of memory. I must say it solved all my problems!!!! Combined with nvidia inspector and 1/2 refresh rate and 30 fps locked inside fsx not much tweaking is needed . It runs great. And has convinced me finally that nvidia is the way to go.





the other thing done is the rudder trim on the throttle box . It's working very well.




Also the radio has been installed and is working.


More lights on the side panels have been installed to increase the night lighting.




The flightmodel has been improved and a lot more realistic.


both seats are installed and some bits and pieces painted.


Here are some pics:


















and a clip or two of the approach to ebbs 25R






Link:
EB540D4A-A280-452E-9807-888524D2ED7C-1803-000001B027E4934B.mp4 video by Sti-tjuh - Photobucket






Link:
F211CCD4-0ED0-45CB-8DEC-F60F6A5E109C-1803-000001A9DB230CBA.mp4 video by Sti-tjuh - Photobucket

[remcosol]

Hello everybody!

This is going to be the last update of this year.

A lot of work has been done this year, and a lot of work still has to be done!

The opencockpits airbus radio has been fitted . I bought this one because one box can do all and i dont have the space for more at this time.

A compartment had to be made to put it in:





I needed one because the vor, ndb and dme are now working, together with the compasses!!!

The dme unit is from flightillusion:


Also the rudder trim handle has been connected on the throttle box and is now working:

Taking the throttlebox out:


Also had some room for painting so i did that before the throttlebox was placed back again:



A video of the rudder trim working:



Most work has gone into getting the compasses , vor and ndb working.

Also the altimeters have been improved. The biggest challenge was to get the right stepper motors that are fast and strong enough or else you cant use the instruments to their full potential. Toghether with the sioc script it was a lot of work.

The making of the steppermotors platform:







Connecting the compass wires:



Installing the unit behind the dash, its getting full......:








The hsi and rmi's installed again:



Tried a panoramic picture with an iphone:



Here they are:


And a lot of fine tuning!!!

Some clips of it all working:

The adf and vor needles:



Compass turning:



Radio and dme:




Some testing to see if all the instruments keep up:



Take off from ehkd:



Approach ehkd: (i dropped my camera at the end sorry)



A lot of work needs to be done still but thats gonna be done next year!

Happy holidays everyone!!!!!!!!!!!