At 12/17/02, Curtis L. Olson wrote:
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.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.
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
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