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 With some help from Fury Technology Limited, the simulator has now been returned to a functional condition.
 Fury Technology Ltd have been involved in the reinstatement of the only Concorde flight simulator in the world - now on permanent display at Brooklands Museum, Weybridge, Surrey.
The complex restoration work, lead by Project Manager, Gordon Roxburgh, has largely been carried out by a team of experienced volunteers, a great deal of time having been given by a few dedicated enthusiasts.
Originally based at Filton, Bristol, this particular flight simulator was a primary pilot training facility for that famous aircraft and used during the time that Concorde was in active flying service. At the end of the Concorde era, the simulator was dismantled for scrap, and would have been lost forever were it not for the Brooklands Museum - who were able to acquire the flight deck in the nick of time. Unfortunately, the motion system, and computer control system were not available - this was to be a missing piece of the massive jigsaw when reassembly began. A large part of the restoration work involved finding suitable solutions for the essential, but missing parts.
View from the Flight Engineers position
The new control system has been centred on a multi-computer platform running the Microsoft FSX version of Concorde.
To connect the flight deck instrumentation to the computer platform, custom hardware and software interfaces were designed and manufactured. Local companies such as XPI simulation, EPSRC, and the University of Surrey helped in the successful development of the project.
Fury Technology designed and built the engine gauge interface circuits, allowing all 16 engine gauges to be driven by the flight simulator as in the real aircraft. This involved emulating the pulse train that originally came from fuel flow N1 and N2 rotary sensors. In addition, channels were provided for Exhaust Gas Temperature, replicating the signals from bi-metal sensor inputs. Fury Technology also built a low cost 400Hz 100Watt power supply to drive the instruments.
Instrumentation and interfacing designs have been developed from Fury’s standard range of products used in our rotary telemetry technology, and flight simulation equipment.
View from the instructors positon
View a short video of the restored Concorde simulator instrumentation under test -
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See (and hear) the Concorde simulator in action -
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The instructors position from another angle
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Fury Technology control systems under commissioning tests
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