Teenager builds flight simulator from Sark crash-landing salvage

Saturday 11th September 2010, 1:00PM BST.

ELIZABETH COLLEGE students are preparing for take-off – from the comfort of their own classroom.

Wing Commander Mike Blackburn, centre, and beyond him Sgt Jamie Bradshaw of 201 Squadron with flight simulator creator Lucas Harrisson, of the Elizabeth College CCF. Pictured right is the plane after it crash-landed in Sark. He has used this fuselage for the project. (Main picture by Steve Sarre, 1026176, 48534, right)

Pupil Lucas Harrisson is making a flight simulator for his school by converting the fuselage of a plane that crashed in Sark several years ago.

The structure was donated by Aircraft Servicing Guernsey. Now the lower-sixth pupil is in the process of fitting it with computer equipment so that fellow pupils can virtually ‘fly’ the plane around the Channel Islands.

It is the second simulator the 16-year-old has made – his first was a helicopter. ‘Once I had done mine, I really wanted to do one for the school,’ he said.