Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-30 Thread Vivian Meazza
I don't see much of a problem with a suitable jumper. Making it a ballistic object with drag and mass would be easy. But a more realistic FDM . Hmmm Vivian -Original Message- From: Curtis Olson [mailto:curtol...@gmail.com] Sent: 30 May 2009 16:25 To: FlightGear developers

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-30 Thread Curtis Olson
On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Vivian Meazza wrote: I don’t see much of a problem with a suitable jumper. Making it a ballistic object with drag and mass would be easy. But a more realistic FDM … Hmmm An accurate FDM would be immensely complex considering all the possible poses a human

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-30 Thread leee
On Saturday 30 May 2009, Curtis Olson wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Vivian Meazza wrote: I don’t see much of a problem with a suitable jumper. Making it a ballistic object with drag and mass would be easy. But a more realistic FDM … Hmmm An accurate FDM would be immensely

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-30 Thread Josef Duschl
leee schrieb: On Saturday 30 May 2009, Curtis Olson wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Vivian Meazza wrote: I don’t see much of a problem with a suitable jumper. Making it a ballistic object with drag and mass would be easy. But a more realistic FDM … Hmmm An

[Flightgear-devel] Concorde

2009-05-30 Thread JOHN WALLIS
Good evening, I would very much like to contact the constructor of the Concorde aircraft frame as I am doing a project on it at the moment, and their experience would be invaluable. Could anyone put me in touch with them please? Thanking you all in anticipation, JMW

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-30 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 10:24 -0500, Curtis Olson wrote: I know we have a few aircraft that can drop sky divers. The Noratlas was the first one I recall. However, these sky divers immediately pull their chutes and drift down ... and the skydiver/chute model is very simplistic ... optimized to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-30 Thread Ron Jensen
On Sat, 2009-05-30 at 12:16 -0500, Curtis Olson wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Vivian Meazza wrote: I don’t see much of a problem with a suitable jumper. Making it a ballistic object with drag and mass would be easy. But a more realistic FDM … Hmmm

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Sky dive free fall

2009-05-30 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 30 May 2009 21:42:55 +0200, Josef wrote in message 4a218c3f.3010...@googlemail.com: leee schrieb: On Saturday 30 May 2009, Curtis Olson wrote: On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:02 PM, Vivian Meazza wrote: I don’t see much of a problem with a suitable jumper. Making it a