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When I decided to build my cockpit, I had no idea anyone else would care. I just wanted to make a better VR experience for myself. I showed it at a local Maker Faire and to my surprise, the invention seems to matter to other people, too.
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Determined to learn to fly and one day qualify for his Class 3 pilot’s license despite the medical setback, the Francis W. Parker School junior and lifelong aviation enthusiast, created his simulation cockpit using everyday materials and components found online. He’s invested more than 200 hours in the project thus far, starting with a prototype and modifying his design over time. Read more...
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Aidan Fay has been obsessed with flying ever since he laid eyes on Microsoft Flight Simulator as an eight-year-old. But while the 17-year-old from La Jolla, CA, has completed initial ground school training and takes flying lessons with an instructor, the FAA barred him from flying solo because of a medical condition. Read more...
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There are very few things in existence as worthy of obsession as flying. Piloting a machine thousands of feet above the assurances of solid ground, bouncing and bobbing along like a boat sailing the sky itself, is the purest pleasure that technology is capable of offering this side of actual orbit.. Read more...
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Like most of us, 17-year old Aidan Fay started his flight experience with a copy of Flight Simulator and a joystick. Yet Aidan soon outgrew this basic approach and embarked on a quest for something more immersive. Read more...
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During the past several months, when he hasn’t been in school or working with friends who are also on his school’s competitive robotics team, 17-year old Aidan Fay of La Jolla has spent much of his time figuring out how to connect a virtual reality to a physical one. Read more...
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When Grade 11 student Aidan Fay built a fill-scale Cessna 172 cockpit simulator in his bedroom last year, his accomplishment received attention from the likes of the Popular Mechanics website, Discovery Channel in Canada and news outlets as far away as Italy. Read more...
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Because the display Fay is using is an Oculus Rift headset, the visual similarity to an actual plane's interior (not to mention the view) isn't as great as some simulators', but the hardware makes it nonetheless more realistic for a headset-wearing pilot than some simulators that might look prettier. Read more...
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Over in the San Diego Air & Space Museum, Aidan Fay could only scratch his head when he was asked how long it took him to build his Cessna 172 flight simulator out of switches and gears and Arduino microcontrollers. “I couldn’t even begin to count it,” he said. Read more...
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“Colui che crede fortemente in se stesso vive con i piedi pesantemente poggiati su una nuvola”, questo aforisma del saggista americano Ralph Waldo Emerson ben si adatta ad Aidan Fay, un teenager al quale la FAA (Federal Aviation Administration), l’agenzia federale statunitense per l’aviazione civile aveva negato la licenza aeronautica solo per colpa di una patologia preesistente. Read more...
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