[simpits-tech] My...isn't it quiet :)

[Brian Sikkema]

Well, coming up on finals week here pretty soon, so pit work has been at a 
minimum, but did have a couple interesting mercury-related things recently.

I was over at a friends room the other day, and he was showing me some pics 
he had on his computer of the mercury. One of them was a full-color pic of 
the instrument panels! I have no idea where he got it from, I was just mad 
because he never mentioned it, he thought I had it already :) So I've got 
one more reference for the pit, still not enough though.

The next thing is more of a question for the group. A thing I thought of for 
the Merc sim is that it would be nice to be able to record VHS tapes of the 
flights. I figure our group here on campus will be using this as a PR tool, 
it would be nice to make recordings of people's sub-orbital flights that 
they could take home, kinda like with those green-screen music video type 
deals. Anyway, what I thought would be cool is to record a 4-way split 
screen, one showing the view from the astronaut camera (in the panel, 
pointing at the astronaut), one showing the view from the window, one 
showing the exterior view, and then one just giving flight data, altitude, 
speed, that sort of thing. Any ideas on how I could accomplish this?

Brian

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