Today is the 99th anniversary of the day that Orville Wright took off in a 20 knot north-north-easterly wind in a machine with a top airspeed of 30, at about 10am off a surf washed beach area (it was flat) at Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina. This, of course, is also the first day of the centennial year.
It's hard to say we wouldn't be here if it wasn't for the Wilbur and Orville, but it is certain that they sped things up at least a week or two. If nothing else maybe another inventor would have built a machine that would've been simpler to make a 3D model of. Here's a screen shot of the Wright Flyer simulation in Flight Gear: http://www.spiderbark.com/fgfs/flyer1903.png Michael Selig authored the excellent flight model. Paul Beardsley's beautiful 1903 Flyer model for MSFS was the original inspiration for this model. I certainly wouldn't have gotten as far without his work. Orville's body, the top surface of the wings, and the sprocket textures are his. To take off from (near) the original spot: Main/fgfs --aircraft=wrightFlyer1903 --lat=36.020247 --lon=-75.669041 --heading=5 --disable-random-objects --enable-auto-coordination Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
