Just a quick update. I watched this at 8pm local time and it was really well done. Michael got a lot of face time and there were quite a few quick snippets showing FlightGear in the background (good job Michael) :-) The actual simulation run for the test was done in a different sim, so I guess we'll have to shoot for next time to get more graphics from FlightGear shown. :-)
According to the local TV schedule they are replaying at 10pm central time which is in 9 minutes ... Curt. Michael Selig writes: > At 12/17/02, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > >Michael Selig (A UIUC aero professor who is heavily involved with the > >FlightGear project) sent me the following interesting tidbit. > > > >On Wednesday, 18 Dec is the Discovery Channel Unsolved History show: > > > > The Death of the Red Baron. > > > >FlightGear was used in the model development for some of the computer > >generated footage that went into the production of this show. > >However, they they didn't use FG for the final rendering w/ machine > >guns blaring away. When they went to UIUC to do some of the filming, > >they took footage of Michael S. flying w/ FlightGear, so it may > >possibly appear in the show. One never knows, however, what will get > >lost on the cutting room floor. > > > >They have some more info on the show at http://dsc.discovery.com. > > > >So, if you have nothing better to do, this one might be interesting to > >watch. > > It's worth taking a little bandwidth to point out that the final rendering > was done using a standalone sim (6 DOF, etc) w/ aero data culled from the > UIUC format which I prototyped using FGFS. Brian Fuesz was my partner in > this, and he's been doing flight simulation for ~18 yrs. He currently is > the Director of Engineering for Frasca International (www.frasca.com), > maker of flight sims. But to add one more point, this project has no > connection to Frasca, except that the filming took place at Frasca. > > As Curt mentions, some filming of FGFS was done, but the 14-hr day of > filming covered a lot of ground that somehow will be distilled down to a > few minutes. I have not seen the final cut. > > Of course, this effort led to the FGFS Fokker triplane and Sopwith Camel > flight models. > > Regards, > Michael > > > ************************************************** > 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 -- 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
