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After an absence of more than a year, the kits are back. But not all kits, just the USB Aircraft Gauge Kits. We’ve received so many requests from customers to bring back these kits, since they are very easy to construct and even easier to modify to a different gauge, that we’ve decided to bring back the USB Aircraft Gauge Kits

This means the Value Pack with 4 USB Aircraft Gauges is also back.
To order the USB Aircraft Gauges or the Value Pack, click here.

The other instruments, like the Altimeter, Attitude Indicator, Heading Indicator, ADF Indicator, Turn Coordinator, VOR1 Indicator and the VOR2 Indicator will only be available as ready built and tested version , with one year of full warranty.

At this moment we are doing a photo shoot for the TRC 472. The next coming months we will change all our product images with new and better pictures. So, more to come!

The TRC 472 Cabin is finally shipping. We’ve made some extra images to show you how fantastic the Cabin looks. Next week we will have new studio quality images, including detailed interior images. For now, enjoy these pictures.

And this is how it’s partly assembled, packed and sent to Mr. Elmer Chen in Hong Kong.

Mr. Elmer Chen, our first customer to receive the TRC 472F Cabin, standing in front of the new Airbus A380 at Chek Lap Kok airport which is to replace former Kai Tak airport.

We’ve just released our newest product: Rudder Pedals with Proportional Brake System and Damper. The high quality brass damper will ensure more feeling and back pressure to give the rudder pedals a better realistic feeling. From now on all our Rudder Pedals systems are equipped with an AD Converter, which translates the analog signal to a digital signal. This AD converter improves the precision of the potentiometers enormously from 256 steps to 1024 steps for each potentiometer.

More information can be found on the Rudder Pedals with Proportional Brake System and Damper product page.

At this moment we are working very hard on the development of our TRC472F. The certifiable version of the TRC472 comes with a full fuselage to create a very realistic experience when flying in our professional Flight Simulator. Since all our products are developed as high quality replica’s of the original product, the fuselage also needs to be as realistic as possible.

For the first prototype we used heavy duty fiber glass, but it is very difficult and time consuming to use polyester for serial production. So we decided to use vacuum forming, like we also do for our glareshield. Using vacuum forming, we can design the exterior and interior of the fuselage as realistic as in the real aircraft.

Here you can find some images of the production process. We expect the fuselage to be ready and available within one month. The fuselage will also be available as a separate product.

First we designed all the elements for the full fuselage using 3D cad software.

From these files, foam molds are produced using a computerised mill. In the image above you see the interior of the TRC472F andin the image below you see one of the doors.

These foam molds are used to create “sand” molds for the aluminum foundry.

Finally, one of the molds for one side of the fuselage. As you can see, these molds are very big.

The liquid aluminum is poured in one of the molds.

Once the mold has been filled with liquid aluminum, it has to cool down for a day or two, before the “sand” mold can be taken apart.

When all the sand has been removed, we finally have a vacuum mold.

Using a big vacuum forming machine, the parts of theTRC472F fuselage are being formed. Big ABS sheets are being heated in this machine, before forming them around the aluminum mold using vacuum technique.

Our first test product.

And this is what your view will be, sitting in one of our TRC472F Flight Simulators.

To be continued.