On Thu, 1 Feb 2007, leee wrote: > On Thursday 01 February 2007 00:35, Curtis Olson wrote: >> For what it's worth, if someone wanted to adapt one of our existing fdm's >> to do automotive vehicle dynamics, that would be a cool thing.
> It had occurred to me that YASim could be (ab)used to fake a car. I have been using a setup for testing/measuring fuselage drag of the Chinook, aka the "chinook bus". I just added a thruster element down at the rear wheels and a adjusted few other things. The original rotors were replaced by a miniature rotor the size of a cpu fan, just to keep yasim in helicopter mode. It actually autorotated sometimes. It was also during one of these test runs I had an accident with a cow (the new greenhorn breed) and crashed. ;) That was before the recent ground bumpiness/friction patch so I didn't always bother to stay on the runway. But what cannot be simulated currently, in the above manner, is powerskidding with the driving wheels. There is also no gear box model. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
