The motion cockpit that moves according to the screen used to train the actual pilot is one I'd like if you are a fan of the flight simulator, but I'd like to make this cheaply with familiar materials ...

We like a good flight simulator but often find the available control schemes lacking. [Roland] not only builds his own controls, but creates full cockpits that add physical motion to the mix. He ...

FORT LIBERTY, N.C. - Army flight simulators are powerful computer programs allowing pilots to recreate real-world flight events in a safe and controlled environment. Pilots use flight simulators to ...

Inside Axial Aero’s workspace, engineering diagrams, motion platforms and lines of code converge with a single aim: to ...

The first and only AH-1Z full-motion cockpit simulator was declared ready for training May 28 at Camp Pendleton, Calif. The Naval Aviation Training Systems program office (PMA-205) and the H-1 ...

Are you a virtual reality fan, who wishes the whole experience could be made even more immersive than it already is? Do you have the cash to throw down for a gaming chair that looks like something a ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—From a viewing spot in a high bay room at NASA Ames Research Center in Silicon Valley, I peer through a glass window at a cab that simulates the cockpit of a commercial aircraft.

In this historical photo from the U.S. space agency, the NASA Ames 5 degrees-of-freedom motion simulator is shown on June 6, 1962. This simulator incorporated a centrifuge with a 30 foot spin radius.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--There I was, staking my claim to a pilot's slot in one of NASA's next-generation lunar landers, and to be perfectly frank, I think I'd better not quit my day job. "I think we ...

I visited one of my favorite Long Island places last week, the Cradle of Aviation Museum, in Garden City, NY http://www.cradleofaviation.org/ The museum has its own ...