New member building a Dehavilland Dove.

[remcosol]

The glareshield panel is finally finished and working.

It took some time to build:



underside:



wires:



redlights:





A little clip of the feathering system working:
http://s234.photobucket.com/albums/e...t=1ed0b836.mp4







The fire-lights work as well and so does the extinguishers.

[remcosol]

This month is a bit of a slow month building wise but the altimeters are working!!!!

Happy holidays!!!

[remcosol]

Well it's time for a little update again.

The last couple of months the temperature in my shed was a bit to low to work in but it has warmed up nicely now!

The first big thing that i did was finally building the power supply housing. In here all the voltages i need are safely stored.
The voltages are: 5, 12 (pc power supply), 26 v dc. 26v ac, 26v and 115v ac /400hz. Also a cooling fan has been installed to get a slight airflow in the unit.

Also a new computer has been build to run FSX/ prepar3d only.
Some specs:

Coolermaster housing
i7 2600k oc 4.6 ghz
8 gb 1600 mhz memory (corsair vengeance)
2x ssd drives , 60gb for windows , 120 gb for fsx, ozc vertex 3
1x ATI 5870 matrox edition card ( might need a quicker card)
H70 water cooling
And an asus sabertooth motherboard.

And the 3 samsung 23 inch screens i already had have finally found there way up to the panel.

The last thing i did was rebuild the manifoldpressure indicator (from a flightsimulator so not a real one). It was damaged beyond repair saidly enough. Althoug my tools i needed to make it didnt work anymore i did get it to work in the end . Not a fine mechanical job but it works.....

Power supply pictures:










Then six wires transport the power to the power distribution panel i buildright top side)




The mess i usually make :



Also the 3 screens have been fitted and might need to be re-fitted :









And the manifold pressure in pieces and put back together:


















And some movie clips of the stuff working:

Shutdown:



And playing around with the throttle:



And some flying: Altimeters also working.



Stall:


So the next thing to do is finish the engine instruments , they are ready to be installed. The altimeter needs to be improved with a better stepper motor and also all the compasses and adf/vor needles need proper 200step/360 degree stepper motors wich are hard to find....

[remcosol]

2 More man. press pictures

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th_55da75fe.jpg

[remcosol]

A little update , we've been working hard on the engine instruments and I'm proud to say they are almost finished . Also the turn and slip indicators are working.
More on that later !

Some more news on the history of the dove !!!!
This was the aircraft :

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19? The aircraft was registered as G-ALTM.

19? The aircraft was acquired by the British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC).

22Jun1955 The aircraft crashed at Heathrow Airport, London, UK.

19? The aircraft was painted as 'N764JN" for a film.

19? The aircraft was acquired by a film making company and destroyed in the making of a film.

The last bit is we're we came in , this was around 1988 . In a studio in Amsterdam we dismantled the aircraft . Just need a picture now

All this info thanks to this site:
http://www.cnapg.net/dove.htm

[remcosol]

A small update , all the engine instruments are working and also the turn and slip indicators . More on that later !
Here a small picture

[remcosol]

Last weeks we've been finishing the engine instruments , the connection between fsx and the instruments are again sioc script driven servo motors .

Some building pics:









The finished product:







The backside of the panel is getting full:



Clip of them working

[remcosol]

Also both seats have been installed , a picture at Innsbruck :



And here some startup taxi and take off clips . Not great quality but it gives a nice impression :

Power up by using battery isolation switch and the ground flight switch:



Engine start , first opening fuel selectors and switching on fuel pumps:



Engine testing :



Taxi out , into a bus . :



Scenery demonstration:



Takeoff , it could be a sharper image but gets better after a couple seconds when the camera focuses :



And climb out with a nice view of Innsbruck , the orange light on the dashboard is the inner marker of Innsbruck going on and off later on

[remcosol]

After a couple of months it's time for a small update:

Initially I bought an ati 7970 direct cuii top 3 gb graphics card and thought it would be great for fsx...... But no.

The ati 7970 is gone, it gave a lot of problems especially with 3 screens and 30 fps. I always had problems with micro stutters! In the end I was able to bring it back to the store . In stead I bought an evga 680 with 4 gb of memory. I must say it solved all my problems!!!! Combined with nvidia inspector and 1/2 refresh rate and 30 fps locked inside fsx not much tweaking is needed . It runs great. And has convinced me finally that nvidia is the way to go.

the other thing done is the rudder trim on the throttle box . It's working very well.


Also the radio has been installed and is working.

More lights on the side panels have been installed to increase the night lighting.


The flightmodel has been improved and a lot more realistic.

both seats are installed and some bits and pieces painted.

Here are some pics:









and a clip or two of the approach to ebbs 25R



Link:
EB540D4A-A280-452E-9807-888524D2ED7C-1803-000001B027E4934B.mp4 video by Sti-tjuh - Photobucket



Link:
F211CCD4-0ED0-45CB-8DEC-F60F6A5E109C-1803-000001A9DB230CBA.mp4 video by Sti-tjuh - Photobucket

[Geremy Britton]

This is a FANTASTIC thread, you've got a brilliant aircraft there, and it's great to see cockpit building in this form ... all too often with the development of parts everything is bought in a click and before you know it all the enjoyment of building your own cockpit is lost.

Not here, thanks for all the photos been inspiring to read through