At 10/16/02, Curtis L. Olson wrote: >Jim, > >Your Wright flyer model is really starting to look sharp! Good >work. :-) > >People need to check this out if they haven't already: > > fgfs --aircraft=wrightFlyer1903-v1-nl-uiuc
The 1903 Wright Flyer has rudder coupled to wing warping. For this to work out right use: fgfs --aircraft=wrightFlyer1903-v1-nl-uiuc --enable-auto-coordination Then be sure to not input any rudder w/ the stick (i.e. don't twist the joystick). With later aircraft, the Wright Brothers de-coupled the wing warping from the rudder ... for good reason as can be deduced from flying the model. My confidence level in terms of the accuracy of the model (sans the engine) is pretty high. It's largely based on NASA Ames data from tests on a replica, which I mention in the readme: ~/fgfsbase/Aircraft/UIUC/wrightFlyer1903-v1-nl/README.wrightFlyer1903.html Sounds like I need to cvs-checkout out the latest stuff! Regards, Michael >You definitely need to stay on your toes (so to speak) to keep this >thing in the air. The lack of lateral stability is very apparent. If >you get banked a little too much, you'll slide right out of the sky. >The UIUC folks did a very good job on the flight dynamics. My gut >feeling is that this is probably very close in terms of performance to >the original. > >Curt. >-- >Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project >Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org > >_______________________________________________ >Flightgear-devel mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel ************************************************** Prof. Michael S. Selig Dept. of Aero/Astro Engineering University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 306 Talbot Laboratory 104 South Wright Street Urbana, IL 61801-2935 (217) 244-5757 (o), (509) 691-1373 (fax) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/m-selig http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/m-selig/faq.html (FAQ) ************************************************** _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
