On Monday 14 August 2006 23:12, Julien Pierru wrote: > I successfully flew around the earth with the B52, following > the historic flight flown by 3 B52 in January 1957. > It took me around 40 hours and 6 air to air refueling from a > KC135 flown by shavlir to make it. Only the first 3 aar were > unsuccessful due to non matching and oscillating speeds > between mp aircraft. The remaining 3 were perfect and lasted > about 20 to 30 minutes to refuel about 3/4 of the tanks. > > FG handled very well under the circumstances, no noticeable > memory leaks, but a few things did break down. (made for a > more realistic flight ;-P) For some reasons the 2D panel lost > its lighting (red) over Hawaii and I was never able to recover > it (landed without instruments in a pitch black night) and the > property tree had a few nervous breakdowns as well, would stop > updating for a while...Other than that it was awesome. > > You can see the path taken on FG tracker at: > http://fgfs.i-net.hu/modules/fgtracker/?FUNCT=FLIGHT&FLIGHTID= >4015 > > You might have to zoom out a bit on google map to see the > track. there is a corrupted data point in there so you can't > see the ground speed. I'll ask KoverSrac to remove that point. > > Here are some air to air refueling at dawn over Guam: > http://fgfs.i-net.hu/modules/xoopsgallery/view_album.php?set_a >lbumName=album32 > > Regards, > > Julien
Well done :) nice pics too LeeE ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
