Maker Faire Bay Area 2007

Hiller Flying Platform Simulator

Type: Maker Workbench

Topic(s): Engineering | Science

Tags: aviation simulator flying+platform museum

Feel what it was like to ride the famous Flying Platform, a top-secret prototype single-person aircraft built by the Palo Alto-based Hiller Aircraft Corporation in 1955.

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Project photo.

About the Maker(s)

Jeffery Bass

Jeffery Bass is the President and CEO of Hiller Aviation Museum in San Carlos, California. The Hiller Flying Platform simulation was produced by North West, Robbie Eaton and Andrew Filo.

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