Jon S. Berndt wrote: > I thought initially that a spring was not the way to go, but I think > you are picturing a spring that (figuratively) goes from the bow of > the ship to the nose gear, no?
Actually, I was thinking about a spring centered on the point where the cat harness "would be" based on a known acceleration curve. This gets you around the problem of "tuning" the force appropriately for the aircraft, and you can just set a target launch speed instead. Unfortunately, the same trick won't work for the arrestor wires because their "track" isn't fixed, but based on the landing velocity of the aircraft. Andy _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
