![]() Once the flight deck was ready to start receiving parts I migrated the main elements down to the flight deck and the real development begins! First picture of the overhead panel and pedestal back in the flight deck. Software development platform The glass and CDU were from Project Magenta Back in the day we had lots of friends over to fly and help! We used Microsoft Flight Simulator for the host simulation. This is where James Price and I co-developed “Sim Control” written in Visual Basic to control all of the aircraft systems. During that process I decided to create a development platform up in one of the spare bedrooms. While the physical restoration continued I knew it would be quite a while before it flew. Here we are adding the floor Flight deck after painting with dark Boeing GrayĬircuit breaker boxes and panels prior to painting and installation Flight Deck stripped out and the aft instructor cab added. My friend James Price riveting the aluminum floor extension in place. ![]() I stripped out all of the wiring, cleaned it, and next built a frame and aft cab for it. Remember this thing had been flying since 1967 so there was tons of grime and nicotine over everything. The first thing that I began was the physical restoration of the flight deck. ![]() Me behind the wheel of the rental truck on the long drive to Los Angeles My brother Mark as my copilotįlight deck arrives at my new house! Local friends and neighbors pose after moving it into the garage There was a lot of work to do. In 200 I finally bought a house and it was time to move the flight deck to Los Angeles to begin it’s restoration ![]() First two elements sitting in my apartment: the throttle quadrant and overhead panel My flight deck sat at my parents house while I was still living in an apartment but it didn’t stop me from working on the simulator, so I decided to ship the throttle quadrant and overhead panel to begin software development. ![]()
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