| The American Airlines C.R Smith Museum is located just south of the DFW International Airport halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. In 1997 I was asked by the director of the museum if I could build a flight simulator exhibit for the museum. We talked about ideas, features and prices and I received the go-ahead to begin construction in December. The following pages depict a chronological history of the construction and completion of the museum flight simulator. It was a long and satisfying project, and it was really nice to actually get paid for doing something I really enjoyed! |
| The simulator relies on several key components which I don't have the space to fully describe on these pages. |
| The flight simulation software is the ever popular (but now defunct) Flight Unlimited III by Looking Glass Technologies. |
| The video card is a Voodoo chip-based Pure 3D by Canopus Corporation. (also now defunct) |
| The entire interface was accomplished with the EPIC card by R&R Electronics . (thanks, Ralph!) |
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There are three pages of thumbnails with links to descriptions about each picture.
If you don't care about thumbnails you can just begin by clicking here |
