Titan CV Flight Control Entry Profile View This is an on-going series. See Mars terraforming image links below. This image is an addendum to my previous image Titan Crew Vehicle Flight Control Station It is shot from a lower angle (and from slightly different X-Z position than the previous) to permit a better view of some details. Here the Flight Control Stations are shown at 90 degrees rotation relative to their position in the previous image -- as they would be during Titan atmospheric entry. This is to accommodate the force of deceleration acting upon the crew’s bodies during the entry phase of flight. The Titan crew landing craft is spherical in design with the entry-heat-shield opposite the landing & take-off thrusters – the vehicle performs (one) 180 degree roll after aero-breaking. This means the direction of gravity (in the form of deceleration during atmospheric braking) will shift 180 degrees relative to the direction of gravity induced by the landing/take-off thrust (or indeed relative to the force of gravity on Titan’s surface). This requires the crew’s entry-deceleration/launch crash couches need be gimble mounted in order to permit them to roll through this change in orientation. I’ve used Davo’s Modular Command Chair as the basic component of the system -- exported as a Wavefront object -- and mounted it on a gimbaled support system of my own design -- to permit the rotational transition from aero braking to descent profile. The flight controls are independently mounted on a suspension that can rotate and slide forward or back with the command chair (note the track system visible on the deck). Both elements slide as the chairs sit closer to the bulk-head mounted window during pre-touch-down maneuvers than they do during other phases of flight, and they need to be mounted so they can slide -- in order to rotate to position they are shown in currently– the extra room afforded is necessary to permit the chair to rotate without hitting any of the surrounding structure in the confined space – I was not sure I had made this clear in my previous description, and so it is noted here. Geirla had commented (on my previous image) about designs incorporating “crew compartment’s in a ball-bearing-like sphere. That way, either by weighting it heavier at the "bottom" or by active means such as gears or tracks, you can orient it to match the acceleration direction no matter where it is.” I am doing a test-build currently of the crew acceleration/deceleration stations (there are 48 additional crew members, three of whom would be in the Reactor Systems GCNTR Control Station during descent – leaving 45 crew who need be accommodated through entry but who do not require access to a flight or primary-system work/control station) so I am currently working out something along the lines Geirla suggested -- this being in the form of one (or possibly several) drum shaped compartment. This entire set, wall panels, the in-wall rack-mounted system control components (inspired by the look of Naval and Air Force modular rack-mounted systems), was constructed in Bryce 6.5. Figures are DAZ M4 and DAZ V4 exported into Bryce. As always thank you for your interest, thoughtful comments, and encouragement.