On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 02:37, Josh Babcock wrote: > >>>>I'll see what more I can deduce tonight. > >>>>Steve
Didn't get anything much done, sadly, but I have taken a look at your fuselage images, Josh. Nice work! > Just an update. > > http://jrbabcock.home.comcast.net/flightgear/colditz/colditz1.jpg > http://jrbabcock.home.comcast.net/flightgear/colditz/colditz2.jpg > One small observation. It's hard to be sure, but I think the photos of the glider replica show that the "riser" forming the back of the pilot's seat is also the centre bolting-on point for the wings, and therefore comes to a narrow flat-top under the wing, not to a sharp point as you've modelled it. Looks like P.Reid's drawing (body_glider_plans.htm) shows it like that too. It would also seem that the wing overhangs forward of the top-of- the-seat bolt-on point too. This is where I assume the passenger was squashed in. He gets a bit of side-to-side view in there, but not much. He wouldn't see much at night anyway. Other opinions may differ of course. Annoyingly, the photos from the 1999 flight on the 'fiddler's green' site don't really have enough detail in that area to be sure of anything. Steve _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
