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I've been meanin' to do this for some time and finally got around to scanning photos from some of my old worksites. This was some of the official training gear involved in making Viper drivers more efficient killers back, as Gums would put it, "when the earth was still cooling". These were the days before muti-gigahertz CPUs, terabyte hard drives the size of a PBJ, USB sticks, and crap loads of RAM you can fit into a wristwatch.

My apologies in advance for the quality of some of these scans. But they are, afterall, almost 20 years old. Well before 10+ MP cameras you can slip in your pocket. These shots are from the install of TFS 13 at Kingsley Field, Oregon in the spring of 1989. It came from Torrejon and spent about 6 months in Houston goin' thru the ADF mod before shipment to Klamath Falls.

Some extra stuff 'cuz the captions are getting clipped:

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Great shots Link! When I see these pics, though, Queen's "One Vision" keeps playing in my mind ("<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mF8SMibVFog">Iron Eagle</a>", anyone?). Wink

And still more.....

These are from the Block 40 install at Diyarbakir, Turkey in 1995. The crown jewel of this device was its 24-foot dome and head-tracked Area Of Interest projection display built by Evans & Sutherland. If you've ever tried one of those whisper rooms at a museum, where you whisper into a parabolic dish and a person across the room at another dish can hear you, it was the same with this thing. Get your head exactly in the eyepoint and people inside the dome can hear you breathe! 'Twas funky to no end. Laughing

It also used a linkage system that featured SMD technology called Modular I/O (MIO), cutting I/O hardware count by over 50%.

TC wrote:

Great shots Link! When I see these pics, though, Queen's "One Vision" keeps playing in my mind ("Iron Eagle", anyone?). Wink

Yeah well...I thought that might happen, but I posted anyways. Wink

My boss at K-Falls was at the "Secret IDF Base" doin' a project on that sim when IE 1 was there filming. Said Lou Gossett was one TALL mofo! Laughing

Best thread in ages!!
Thanks for sharing, John.

Back in the day... I thought you were going to show something like this;

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Nice. Kinda reminds me of "Strike Force Harrier" that I used to play on my Commodore 64 back around '86-ish. Laughing

My first in Commodore 64 around the same time frame was ACE 2;

LOL!

You guys are killing me with this trip down memory lane with all the old air combat games. Bushmaster78FS even threw in a C-64 reference before I had a chance! How 'bout this homebuilt flight sim? - http://www.rogerdodger.net/diyflightsims/pacs.html

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There's a flight sim in that picture? Where? I don't see no stinking flight sim! Wink

[quote="LinkF16SimDude"]There's a flight sim in that picture? Where? I don't see no stinking flight sim!
-GROAN!- Laughing

C'mon she's not that cute! Rolling Eyes

Damn,
that's the same Unit I HAVE !
eh eh eh ... that'a s F-16 Block 15 Singer WTU isn't it ?
My project is based on this trainer too .... even if i had to "upgrade" it to a block 52 more looking "face" changing the internal instrument panel.

I was told there are only about 10 of these units all around the world ..... nice to see how it was while built up !

here some pctures and a link to a movie on You tube .....

Here how it was when it reached my home !

Working inside:

and here how it appeared after the Skinning Work !

Now a short vied with some "action"

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Cheers All !

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Yes...definitely a Singer-Link WST cockpit carcass judging from what's left. Too bad they didn't give you the original skin panels. There may be 10 surviving units but back in the WST's glory days we had more than 35 deployed worldwide. After they were decommissioned most of 'em got salvaged for parts then the leftovers were scrapped. One intact cockpit did wind up in the Air Force Museum in Dayton, however. The 162FW at Tucson still had 4 working WSTs (2 A's and 2 C's) as of 2005 but they've been upgraded so much that they don't look at all like what you see in my pics above. Not sure if they kept the A's after they send their last A-model to AMARG.

Your instrument panel mods are well done, BTW. Thumb

Did you pick that up in Belgium? I see the canopy has a Belgian serial number. If it was from Kleine Brogel I may have actually worked on that cockpit at one time!

[Link pending approval] you're right .... it was a "carcass" that costed me a little fortune ! but i will become a working F-16 Block 52 simulator.

The canopy indeed is coming from belgium but i've no info about the "pilot"
hey ... [Link pending approval] can you suggest me a good method to remove all that plexy scrap from the dytucture ? I'm running mad with it

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