On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 01:46, Josh Babcock wrote: > Gerard ROBIN wrote: > > Le jeudi 02 juin 2005 à 20:16 -0400, Josh Babcock a écrit : > > > >>Josh Babcock wrote: > >> > >>Not quite done yet, still need some stuff in the cockpit, landing gear
There's not much of either of those! I put some instruments on my hack, just to make it easier to fly without physical clues like the wind in your face. The replica in 1999/2000 had a wind ribbon - no idea if they planned one for the original. Landing gear consists of just a skid. The 1999/2000 replica had a steel main skid because they wanted it to survive the landing and be able to fly again. The original designers commented that they didn't bother with more than a rudimentary wooden skid because all they wanted was landing protection - the glider would never fly again (for them at least). > >>and some animations. I'm not planning on putting in a pilot, though if > >>enough people want one I can give it a shot. > >> It would look nice, but it's probably a lot of work. I spotted a wartime photo of one of the builders somewhere. Mapping that onto the face of the pilot would be a neat touch! > >>http://jrbabcock.home.comcast.net/flightgear/colditz/colditz.tgz > >> Something to play with at lunchtime! > > > > Wohhh.... > > Very impressive, congratulation, it is a must of art. > > as an extension we could use the (coming) launchbar function, to take > > off, not from the Nimitz, but from a tower (somewhere... in > > Germany....) > > Aha - there's a 'launchbar' coming soon is there? I was wondering about how to model catapult launches and glider tow-launches. What I tried to do (but failed) with the Colditz glider was to give it a small short-lived (and invisible) non-throttleable rocket engine to simulate the launch catapult. I calculated that about 1866N (that's about 420lb) for 2.3 seconds would do. You can see my attempt (commented out) in the 20050525 glider FDM release. Something wasn't working though - any ideas anyone? > > > > > Keep posted, I have some neat plans for the model, especially animating > the wind indicating ribbon (not included in the latest release). > Thanks, Josh. Steve _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
