Air training on ground
Larry Harper assistant engineering instructor, is shown working with an analog computer that will be programmed to present a trainee with a particular flight condition during approach to a simulated "airport."
Flight simulator aids pilot training
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To simulate actual flight conditions and give a training pilot the "feel" of flying while sitting on the ground are the aims of the KU Aerospace Engineering Department's flight simulator project now under construction.
Larry Harper, assistant instructor in aerospace engineering and director of the simulator project, said that the new simulator would be used by the department to test various flying configurations for different types of aircraft.
The simulator itself, he said, is a "fixed base" type, that is, it cannot simulate actual flight movement of an airplane. Only more commercial simulators can give this feeling of "vibration and movement" experienced in a plane.
He said Beech supplied the entire aircraft, although the engines were not included. The engineers will only use the nose of the plane, he said, and the inside will be remodeled to closely simulate a standard four-seat plane.
To simulate actual ground movement as the plane approaches a "runway" for "landing," the researchers have devised an elaborate system. Ground motion, Harper said, will be simulated by a table with a wide loop of material designed to present a continuously moving terrain. Trees, mountains, houses
The body of the simulator, Harper said, is part of a Beech Duke model 60 airplane donated by the Beech aircraft company of Wichita.
and the runway are realistically depicted on this moving loop of material.
Placed in front of this terram model, Harper said, will be a carriage with a television camera mounted on it. This carriage, he said, will be capable of duplicating any type of movement that might occur during flight.
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The entire system, Harper said, is powered and controlled by an EAI 580 analog computer that can be programmed to simulate a number of different aircraft.
The training pilot views a display of the terrain in front of him by the use of a television monitor and a special lens which allows him to see only a life-like airport with mountains and residential districts around it, he said.
He said that, for example, a pilot might be given a set of conditions, such as trouble with the airplane's engines. The exact flight conditions for this situation can be presented and the pilot's reactions can be tested. Any errors that the pilot might make during his "flight," he said, are sent into the computer and corrections are given him.
Thus the simulator can duplicate an airplane travelling at 160 m.p.h. making an approach to an airfield.
Harper said he hoped that most of the equipment can be working by the end of the month. Acquisition of the television cameras should be acquired within a week and the terrain model should be completed in two weeks.
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Two University of Kansas students waived their right to a jury trial Friday and asked that their cases be tried before District Court Judge Frank Gray. Both were arrested on misdemeanor charges resulting from disturbances in Lawrence.
One of the two, Donald R. Jenkins, Kansas City, Mo., senior, was arrested February 24 on charges of breaking a window at the Douglas County Courthouse on February 17 during a rally in support of the "Chicago 7" defendants.
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