Paraflight - Hand Control System
A really cool guy named Ed (who lives about 10 minutes away from Oculus and holds many patents in Ocular implants) developed this control system some years back. He gave me permission to post this info on the condition that I state that Paraflight is no longer in business.
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Here is a snip from the documentation:
(I can vouch that Ed knows about large adverse control movements during flight ) :o :shock:
In the following post I can add the documentation as an attachment. (There is a lame 3 attachment limit :roll: )
Ed is one of the baddest-ass R&D guys that I know. He is one of the few who understands the rigor necessary for serious work (like punching a hole in someones head, cutting open their eyes to insert lenses, or giving them radical control over flight surfaces)... while at the same time he is equipped to work out of his garage and is super easy to chat with.
Ed is the type of guy you can sit down with in the kitchen (to start to describe the problem. . .) and by the time the sun is going down you find yourself out in the machine shop ironing out details for a prototype.
Injection molding, Machining, Forming, high reliability production (pretty much... you name it)....
If I were Oculus... I would be trying to meet this guy to see where we could collaborate.
I 100% vouch for the quality of his work, his ethics, his eye for budget, and for his ability to punch through the walls that block others vision.
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Here is a snip from the documentation:
1. Background:
Most all aircraft require the pilot-in-command to control the airplanes’ rudder and brakes systems with the use of their feet. Some pilots who are unable to access the rudder pedals utilize devices to actuate the aircraft’s standard controls. Most commonly used is a device such as the Union Aviation Inc. Portable Hand Control that is clamped to the aircraft’s rudder pedals. While this device carries an FAA supplemental type certificate (STC: SA860S0) for a number of general aviation aircraft, it is not considered optimized for safe flight operation should large adverse control movements be necessary during flight.
(I can vouch that Ed knows about large adverse control movements during flight ) :o :shock:
In the following post I can add the documentation as an attachment. (There is a lame 3 attachment limit :roll: )
Ed is one of the baddest-ass R&D guys that I know. He is one of the few who understands the rigor necessary for serious work (like punching a hole in someones head, cutting open their eyes to insert lenses, or giving them radical control over flight surfaces)... while at the same time he is equipped to work out of his garage and is super easy to chat with.
Ed is the type of guy you can sit down with in the kitchen (to start to describe the problem. . .) and by the time the sun is going down you find yourself out in the machine shop ironing out details for a prototype.
Injection molding, Machining, Forming, high reliability production (pretty much... you name it)....
If I were Oculus... I would be trying to meet this guy to see where we could collaborate.
I 100% vouch for the quality of his work, his ethics, his eye for budget, and for his ability to punch through the walls that block others vision.
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