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<FONT FACE="Verdana">Correction on the HUD glass angle should be = 131 degrees.<BR>
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On 12/14/03 1:24 PM, "Marv De Beque" <mdebeque@woh.rr.com> wrote:<BR>
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</FONT><BLOCKQUOTE><FONT FACE="Verdana">Just returned from the AF Museum. The moved the F-16A trainer to a more remote section of the new hanger and it means less kiddies to get in your way. Note, this is a Singer (not the sewing machine) cockpit trainer with a full working canopy and G cueing seat. It is a very early mode F-16A, so I can’t speak for its absolute accuracy, but I would think it is very close.<BR>
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Any rate, I grabbed some data and I need to go back to get some better data. That cockpit is not easy to get measurements from since all of the LRUs are in place and the seat interferes with things, too.<BR>
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First, I used the rudder floor as 0 degrees. Imagine standing a protractor on the rudder floor. The nose of the aircraft is 0 degrees and the tail is 180 degrees. Here is what I measured.<BR>
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Front Glareshield top 165 degrees<BR>
HUD Glass 130 degrees<BR>
ACES II Seat pan sides 18.4 degrees (has the levers on them) <BR>
ACES II Headrest 120 degrees<BR>
ACES II Ejection Rails 125 degrees<BR>
Canopy’s lower rail (Open) 30 degrees (this is the lower edge of the canopy’s frame in the full open position)<BR>
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Cockpit’s canopy rail -4 degrees (This is the angle of the top vertical rail that is on the cockpit sides where the canopy latches to)<BR>
Right Aux Panel 41.5<BR>
Left Aux panel 50 degrees<BR>
Front Console 75 degrees<BR>
Left and Right side Consoles (rear section) approx 1 degree (I think this is closer to zero, but will confirm that later) <BR>
Left and Right side Consoles (front section) approx 5 degrees (I know that the bend from the rear to front of the side console is really 5 degrees because I have a set of real ones at home)<BR>
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Left Right side consoles angle in towards seat = 10 degrees<BR>
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I’ll go back later next week and get better angles for the consoles. There is no place to rest the digital protractor on since it is about an inch thick. I’ll make a parallel plate for it to sit on and that will raise the digital protractor above the knobs so I can get definitive angles for you.<BR>
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Remember, all angles are based on 0 degrees being level with the rudder floor and pointing at the aircraft’s front nose from the cockpit.<BR>
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That’s everything I have right now. <BR>
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Enjoy and Merry Christmas!<BR>
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Marv<BR>
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