Curtis Olson schreef: > On 1/24/07, *Heiko Schulz* wrote: > > Hi, > > Sorry, but I get following message: > Sorry, this GeoCities site is currently unavailable. > > And a question: Why it is called "Danube" ? :-) > > Greetings > HHS > > Screenshots and downloadable files are at: > > > > > http://www.geocities.com/sandreas41/flightgear_aircraft.html > > > It's the dreaded FlightGear effect again ... :-) > > Post a link on the FlightGear mailing list and that site quickly gets > overwhelmed with too much traffic. > Same problem here.
On the Danube question: The Danube is the name of the class of a runabout in Star Trek and was first introduced in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. All of DS9's runabouts were named after rivers on Earth. http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Danube_class I'd really like some more spacecraft popping up, such as Serenity from Firefly, which is actually a model based on real-world aviation principles (e.g. has VTOL with reaction jets, etc.). I'm making a bit of a case study of building a light sci-fi styled spacecraft sim based on Serenity, which can be used for orbital flight and atmospheric flight (and be used to simulate real-world aircraft as well). Not sure if the sim will ever get built, but it might be possible to combine the efforts of Orbiter (for orbital / space simulation) and FlightGear (atmo flight), possibly with visuals on the planet from FS2004 or FSX. If you look on the net (see link) you can find a lot of data on the Danube class -- keep in mind that the model was never designed for real-world flight and I'm not sure how much a good FDM would appreciate this. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
