Extreme Flight Simulator
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@Mik in Gurnee - about 45 minutes from my home.
ETA: Years and years ago, the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry had a "Flight Simulator" ride that was sponsored by the US Navy.
You got into a thing that looked like a van - seated 4 across and, I believe 4 rows. There was a projected video on a screen in front. The whole thing was on gimbals, so that when the video showed you catapulted off a carrier deck, the entire apparatus acutely tilted backward. All of the video was coordinated with movements of the ride.
Even if you knew it was a simulation, and probably a poor one at that, the sensations were very, very convincing.
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@Mik in Gurnee - about 45 minutes from my home.
ETA: Years and years ago, the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry had a "Flight Simulator" ride that was sponsored by the US Navy.
You got into a thing that looked like a van - seated 4 across and, I believe 4 rows. There was a projected video on a screen in front. The whole thing was on gimbals, so that when the video showed you catapulted off a carrier deck, the entire apparatus acutely tilted backward. All of the video was coordinated with movements of the ride.
Even if you knew it was a simulation, and probably a poor one at that, the sensations were very, very convincing.
@George-K said in Extreme Flight Simulator:
Even if you knew it was a simulation, and probably a poor one at that, the sensations were very, very convincing.
Remember when Disney created the Mission: Space ride? It was a shuttle simulator. It made so many people sick that they took half the ride and removed the motion simulation. Then people had the option to ride the stationary simulator. I rode it. I didn't get sick, but I could understand why people did.
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just started reading this weekend
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The Netflix version of the story
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