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Posts on ‘July 9th, 2010’

The slow, subtle death of a critical system.

Yesterday afternoon I sat at my desk using Microsoft Flight Simulator, attempting to generate an image of the instrument panel of a single-engine airplane in flight, after it had suffered the failure of its vacuum pump. I needed this image for a training module I’m developing. The timing of this project could not have been [...]