On Mon, 2003-01-06 at 17:54, Curtis L. Olson wrote: > Jon Berndt writes: > > > > There might be a yaw rate effect too. When the aircraft is yawing, > > > > the wingtip going "back" also sees a higher AoA and will drop if it > > is > > > > past the stall. Same deal. The snap roll needs a stalled "down" > > > > wingtip to get the divergence, in any case. > > > > > > That makes sense -- thanks. > > > > > > There's also the shadowing of an inboard portion of one wing as beta gets > > larger. Don't know if that is part of the effect, tho'. > > What about "virtual" yarn? > > X-Plane does something like this and it look like it would be a pretty > cool effect. > > http://x-plane.com/images/cola.jpg > > This doesn't mean we'd need to do exactly the same thing, but the idea > of graphically representing what the internal flight dynamics is > calculating is kind of nifty ...
Hmm, this is getting dangerously close to that old dream of real-time CFD ... > > Curt. -- Tony Peden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
