I can only find one photo of this, which was the flight simulator in the engineering faculty at the University of Sheffield. It was manufactured by CueSim which was a QinetiQ spinout. Originally procured by Andy Chipperfield before he headed off to southampton University, I took over the project and worked with the firm to spec the installation.

My research on the simulator was funded by:

Real-time Prognostics, Diagnostics and Failure Mode Computation and Control for Complex Power Systems and Actuators                                                                                               2009 – 2010           £150,000 A United States Air Force European Office of Aeronautical Research and Development: 1 year personal research grant

I also ran an MSc project on it which resulted in the publication

Gladwin D., Stewart P., Parr M. and Stewart J., “Multiobjective evolutionary-fuzzy augmented flight controller for an F16 Aircraft.” Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering. Vol.224, No.3, pp 293-309, 2010.

which was awarded the IMechE Charles Sharpe Beecher Prize for best Aerospace Paper 2010.

It’s worth noting a couple of things about this activity. Firstly, Undergraduate and Postgraduate projects can act as an excellent platform for research projects with outputs and impact. It also looks great on a student’s CV. Also, my Head of Research Group at the time told me that there was no valuable research still to be done on flight simulators…….