Lego TECHNIC Flight Simulator & 6745 Propeller Power Mod

[DLuders]

LEGOpachinko just posted

of a small Lego Technic Flight Simulator. The joystick is free to rotate the model airplane on all three axes to produce pitch, yaw, and roll motions:

It may be large enough to support this nice "LEGO plane working flight stick and aileron technic mod Propeller Power 6745" by "bbqqqbbqqq". The

shows its realistic functions:

Edited October 30, 2010 by DLuders

[grohl]

The flight simulator is a very nice and simple MOC. I would love that one when being a child.

[Alasdair Ryan]

nice simulation, is this realy in the right section of eurobricks?

[Blakbird]

Cool simulator, but I don't see any yaw. This only has pitch and roll.

[yoraish]

Cool simulator, but I don't see any yaw. This only has pitch and roll.

You can just rotate the whole thing!

[DLuders]

Blakbird is correct -- there is no yaw motion in this simulator. He knows a lot more about aircraft than a Civil Engineer like me! Perhaps the simulator could be modified (with a central knob wheel turned by one's thumb) to produce the "yawing" action. From Wikipedia:

Yaw, Pitch, and Roll (and how to create these motions in a real airplane):

[Benly]

Cool simulator, but I don't see any yaw. This only has pitch and roll.

I was waiting all along for the control stick to be rotated for some yaw. I thought there was going to be some rotational connection going through all those axle connectors.

[Blakbird]

I was waiting all along for the control stick to be rotated for some yaw. I thought there was going to be some rotational connection going through all those axle connectors.

Me too. If there was any yaw rotation, the possible beta angle would have to be quite low or the rest of the linkages for the other axes would get tangled. No reason you couldn't add it though!

[CP5670]

This is a bit like the plane simulator in the 8891 idea book. I've had an idea in mind for years for a plane or helicopter simulator with the full three degrees of freedom, but have never gotten around to building it. In principle, it could even be done with all the motors mounted in the base.

[Tobbe Arnesson]

I can't see the video due to content from Sony Music Entertainment.

[DLuders]

[bUMP]

LEGOpachinko just posted this

of his mini Lego Technic Flight Simulator. It uses an old 698 Boeing Aeroplane set to demonstrate pitch, yaw, & roll of a classic Japan Air Lines (JAL) Boeing 727 aircraft. He wrote that his "Version 1 [above] did not have yaw. So i set out to make a version 2, including yaw took a bigger base. So I decided I needed a bigger plane. I dug up the first set I ever got -- it's a 698 from 1977 and looks like it has been in a few crashes (and it has). As a matter of fact the No. 2 engine is on fire and has been shut off."

Edited June 29, 2012 by DLuders

[BobBongo1895]

I can't see the video due to content from Sony Music Entertainment.

Me too. :-(

[DLuders]

In that case, you should do what Sariel suggested on his Facebook page -- "If you are a Firefox user from Germany, Netherlands or Spain and you can't see YouTube videos, this add-on should help." It is a "ProxTube - Unblock YouTube" application.

[bb15080]

In that case, you should do what Sariel suggested on his Facebook page -- "If you are a Firefox user from Germany, Netherlands or Spain and you can't see YouTube videos, this add-on should help." It is a "ProxTube - Unblock YouTube" application.

I use Fire-fox and I have no problem with it

[BobBongo1895]

Dluders, thank you for your tip.

The funny thing is, the developer of this plug is from the same city I´m living.

It´s working fine.

[DLuders]

[bUMP]

LEGOpachinko just added this new

to explain his previous creation noted above (and which is shown in the second video below) -- "By popular demand some close-up shots of the flight simulator from this movie

.

"Start with the flight stick of a LEGO Technic 8855 Prop Plane (check Peeron to download instructions) and from there it is a lot of tweaking to get the dimensions right so it can move nicely. This depends on the airplane you are using so i cannot give you exact instructions. I recommend to first rapid proto type the mechanics to get the dimensions right and then build your definitive version. Your plane should probably not be much bigger than this one (this one behaves very nicely, is balanced and can be controlled quite precisely and very light).

"Check also version 1 where you can see things more clearly (simpler, without the yaw):

[which is shown in the original topic post on Page 1]

"If you build one, send me a picture :)"

Edited June 29, 2012 by DLuders