"Curtis L. Olson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On the main flightgear page there is a screen shot of our rendition of > the original 1903 Wright Flyer: > > http://www.flightgear.org/images/flyer.jpg > > I just ran across the following image of the real thing: > > http://www.first-to-fly.com/History%20Images/1903_Flyer_in_SI.GIF > > After careful study, I can spot a few minor differences, but the > longer I look, the more I am impressed at how closely they match!
Thanks! Coincidently, earlier today I was actually thinking about revisiting the model to fix a couple things...learned a few tricks in the last year. Originally I started with an msfs model that was donated, but ended up replacing everything except maybe Orville's face texture. Fortunately there is a museum nearby that had a full scale model on display... http://web.archive.org/web/20000523102513/www.ohtm.org/harness.html ..so I headed down with camera and took lots of photos. The most noticable things that aren't quite right are the wing and elevator surfaces. The wings are the wrong shape chordwise and the edges are a little odd. It'd be nice to do a little better with the wing warping too. Best, Jim _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
