On Sunday 21 September 2003 08:35, Erik Hofman wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Are there any plans for helicopters, rockets, ballons and airships? > > > The X-15 is considered a rocket. > > Also I've collected some NACA flight data documents of the U.S.S. Los > Angles. I haven't had time to construct a JSBSim configuration files for > this airship but I think it contains quite some good data. > > And there is already a balloon FDM available, and we have a(n > experimental) paraglider model in the base package. > > Erik
I'd be interested to see how that works out. I'd quite like to do a big rigid airship too and although (atm) I'd like to do the LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin, which was the next ship that Eckener made, the idea of doing the Macon and one of it's F9C-2 Sparrowhawks is very appealing:) Does the data you've got have anything about dynamic lift in it? I've also wondered about how to deal with the pressure height limits and ballast handling. Flying these craft seems to be, in some ways, harder than flying heavier than air craft. LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
