![]() ![]() First, there aren’t that many of the vintage aircraft left, and those that are still flying usually have anachronistic instruments in the cockpit, like GPS. ![]() Grant wanted a similar look, and began arranging to use a real P-51 Mustang for filming. Grant’s vision for the short to promote the book was inspired by the recent Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, which featured intricate sequences filmed in the cockpit of a Spitfire. John’s latest novel would change all that.Ĭalled Mustang, the novel centers on a hotshot fighter pilot in WWII. Most of these films required little in the way of special sets, relying instead on stock footage and vintage costumes to achieve their look and feel. Grant’s shorts are used as promos for John’s books, and nicely capture the period and settings of John’s novels. Grant has been making short films for a while, mainly in collaboration with John Dwyer, an author of historical novels. His cockpit simulator turned out to be so much more than what I thought, and after trading a few emails with him to get all the details, I felt like I had to share the series of hacks that led to the short video below and the story about how he somehow managed to build the set despite having no previous experience with the usual tools of the trade. ![]() I couldn’t have been more wrong about the project that Grant Hobbs undertook. The mental picture I had was of a model cockpit hooked to Flight Simulator or some other off-the-shelf flying game, many of which we’ve seen over the years. Such was the case with a recent tip that seemed from the subject line to be a flight simulator cockpit. After filtering out the omnipresent spam, a quick scan of tip titles will often form a quick impression that turns out to be completely wrong. It’s surprisingly easy to misjudge tips that come into the Hackaday tip line. ![]()
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