Talk about nurturing young talent – someone had better keep a keen eye on the high school kids behind this project, that is, building an entire Battlestar Galactica flight simulator from scratch. The completed flight simulator is based on a “Battlestar Galactica” Viper 7, which is the craft piloted by Colonial fighter pilots. Building this from nothing is not easy at all, but good thing the existence of LEGO bricks helped as they developed a scaled down prototype first, using that to decide just where the projected motors should be. After that, plans for the real deal were drafted in AutoCAD, a 3D modeling program, and subsequently applied to the fuselage of an actual plane. The entire shebang is then affixed to a motion control platform which can perform a 360-degree rotation, and I do hope that it comes with air sickness bags just in case someone decides to give it a test run – and end up puking all over the place. Too bad there is still no way of simulating an in-space experience of weightlessness with this.
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