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Lund
Bros. & Co. Ltd
Brookside Avenue
Rustington, West Sussex
BN16 3LF
Phone.
01903 784242
sales@lunds.co.uk |
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For
many years, Lunds have been working with British Aerospace,
Lockheed Martin & THALES Training for the design and
manufacture of the mechanical structures for cockpit
simulator rigs (systems) through to complete aircraft
simulator assemblies. This division of the company has grown
over time and is housed in our second factory at our
Rustington Site.
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In collaboration with
Lockheed Martin and
Lunds Design this
Crew Station Cabinet is
designed to test the
equipment used in the
Merlin Helicopter.
The equipment used is
commercial versions of
the aircraft spec. and
is used to test the
functionality of the
software systems.
This robust design will
be in use for many years
to come as a vehicle for
testing and flight crew
training. Several of
these are being
manufactured by Lunds
and will be used
throughout the world. |
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A THALES static
Tornado Simulator in
production at our
Fabrication Shop. Using
a re-claimed Tornado
Fuselage and adapted to
suit the simulator. The
hand rails are designed
to slide away when the
simulator is in use.
The finished simulator
is housed in a dome
where the visuals are
mapped to give a
realistic proximity of
the landscape.
Below and inside the
support structure are
housed the electronics
and air conditioning
units. The fuselage is
painted matt black to
prevent reflections of
the visuals and the
ancillary framework is
painted grey. |
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A BOEING 737 Forward Fuselage or "cockpit"
under construction for THALES.
The assembly is constructed from a ply wood skeleton and
clad with aluminium sheet.
When completed the structure is incorporated
into the finished simulator where the aircraft trim is
fitted in situ by THALES engineers.
The sequence finishes with the completed
cockpit, painted matt black and fitted with windshields, as
it is delivered to our customer |
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Lunds were
approached by BAE Systems to design, develop and
manufacture the cockpit simulators for the new Eurofighter -
Typhoon fighter project.
The design was
undertaken in Pro-Engineer and 3D concept models were
quickly produced to prove the aesthetics of the design
brief. This was followed by detailed 3D models using
imported data from BAE Systems CATIA drafting system for
equipment references and on approval, manufacturing drawings
were produced.
Designed to
test the aircrafts electronics systems, attention to detail
was paramount as the layout of the simulator follows the
aircraft design and can accommodate actual equipment.
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Using Aircraft parts as references
the main structure is of sheet steel for
strength and painted in house to the
customers specifications.
The finished assembly is mounted on
industrial castors to facilitate positioning
and movement. The Aircraft "Display Suite"
and machined equipment housings are either
"aircraft parts" or facsimiles.
All the wiring and
electronics are the work of BAE Systems who have now
completed the initial systems which will be delivered to the
end users.
Lunds
would like to thank BAE Systems for allowing us to publish
these pictures of the finished product. We would also like
to thank the Rig Systems team for their support and
collaboration during both the design and manufacturing
cycles of this project. |
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One of our
earliest projects involved working
with the leading companies in the
Aerospace industry to design and build
the Workstation facsimiles for
laboratory testing of the Nimrod
electronics and control systems.
The contract
covered the sheet metal enclosures for the Workstations and the
test benches.
Since then we have produced
workstations and a complete fuselage based on the Nimrod design
to simulate the working environment of the Nimrod crew. |
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