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Born in Texas in 1899, Wiley Post dreamed of flying from childhood. Too
poor to afford lessons, he might have remained an oilfield roughneck but for
an accident on the rig in 1926 which cost him an eye. His compensation pay
was enough to buy an old Curtiss Jenny biplane. After months of practicing
judging distances with only one eye, Post received "a couple of hours' dual
flying" from a friend and went into the aviation business.
After two years of hand-to-mouth barnstorming, he got a job with an oil
company that purchased a superb Lockheed Vega monoplane christened
"Winnie Mae." Beside transporting company executives, Post used the Vega
for a series of record-breaking promotional flights.
In 1931, accompanied by Australian navigator Harold Gatty, he circled the
world in under nine days. In 1933, equipping Winnie Mae with a prototype
autopilot and the Army's new Automatic Direction Finder, he set off from
New York to become the first to fly around the world alone.
Post flew eastward battling unscheduled landings caused by bad weather and
autopilot malfunctions. On the final leg across Canada, he overcame fatigue
by holding a wrench tied by string to one finger. Each time he fell asleep the
wrench dropped from his grasp and jerked his finger, waking him. Fifty
thousand New Yorkers greeted his arrival -- 21 hours ahead of his previous
time. Applauding Post's "superhuman" effort and the Vega's new-fangled
equipment, the New York Times prophesied: "Commercial flying in the future
will be automatic."
Post's greatest contribution to aviation came the following year when, wearing
the world's first space suit and with Winnie Mae's engine specially
supercharged, he rode the high-level jetstream winds from California to
Cleveland, Ohio. The visionary airman had introduced the world to
pressurized, tropospheric flight. Five months later Post and his friend Will
Rogers, the cowboy humorist, died in a flying accident.
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INSTALLATION:Unzip the contents of PANEL.zip into the corresponding
PANEL folder of the plane you intend to use this panel with in your
FS98\AIRCRAFT directory.
Unzip the contents of GAUGES.zip into the main GAUGES directory of
FS98.
PANEL OPERATION:
This panel is equipped with a representation of the prototype Sperry
Auto Pilot.It will lock on to your immediate heading and altitude when
engaged.
The control panel is in the center portion of the instrument panel.It
has 4 switches for operation.The left knob is the heading adjust funtion.
A mouse click or two to either side of the knob will allow small changes
in heading when the auto pilot is engaged.
The next toggle is the auto pilot master switch and it must be engaged
for the auto pilot controls to function.
The next toggle to the right is the compass on-off control.In order to
change altitude this toggle is turned off to climb or descend then re-
engaged to maintain desired altitude.
The last toggle is mostly eye-candy in this version.It will turn the
compass off and on also.
BUG NOTICE:For some reason FS98 will turn off the auto pilot when
abruptly changing from day to night..(with the clock set funtion).
Clicking the MASTER SWITCH toggle back to the on position will
resume auto pilot function.
The panel is also equipped with a representation of the Westport Radio
Compass.It consists of a NDB gauge with tracking accomplished by tuning
to an NDB signal within FS98 and keeping the Radio Compass needle
centered.NDB frequencies may be found in the Airport/Facility Directory
in FS98.
Frequency tuning is accomplished by using the knob and crank features
located at bottom center of the panel.Mouse clicking the brown knob will
light up a frequency readout for a short period.The crank to the right
has 3 positions.With the crank in the upper position the knob will change
the first digit of the frequency readout.With the crank in the middle
position the knob will change the second digit of the frequency readout.
With the crank in the lower position the knob will change the frequency
readout for the last digits by tenths per click.
The station I.D. tone is toggled off and on by clicking the knob located
on the right side of the altimeter.
Note that the Auto Pilot will not track the NDB signal.Once you have
centered the radio compass needle the auto pilot may be engaged but any
course deviations must be corrected manually.
In the real world the instrument was tuned to commercial radio broadcast
signals.This allowed the many stations located around the world to be used
for navigation purposes.
On staff,full time,highly compensated Senior Gauge Programmers:
Brian Kostick
E-mail: Br5an@aol.com
Jon Shepherd
E-mail: JonShepherd@compuserve.com
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Reference photographs provided by:
Kevin Breen
E-mail: Kevin.Breen@lorain.lib.oh.us
Supercharger gauge by:
François Ouellette
E-mail: fouellet@idirect.com
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This FREEWARE panel has been created by the author,and
its copyright belongs to the author,J.L.Stubbs.Any freeware
gauge files included with this panel are the properties of
their respective authors and as such fall under whatever guidelines
they may reserve.
You may re-distribute or re-upload it to other net locations
but you may NOT use it for any commercial-purpose WITHOUT all
the author's explicit, written PERMISSION in advance.
Any infringements could result in a complaint for violation
of copyright.
J.L.Stubbs
Aeroswine Research Corporation
http://flightsimmers.net/aeroswine/index.html
http://www.web-access.net/~airpig/
