On dim 31 août 2008, Anders Gidenstam wrote: > Hi all, > > My interest in obsolete technology and a bygone era have made me model a > RAF mk9 bubble sextant for FlightGear: > > http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/Celestial_navigation_in_fgfs/fgfs-RAFmk >9-506.jpg > http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/Celestial_navigation_in_fgfs/fgfs-RAFmk >9-507.jpg > > It is easy to add to an aircraft (but I won't say it is easy to use :), > and I made some quick examples that I put together with the archive. It's > not quite appropriate for any of my aircraft in CVS but I'll probably add > it to my ZF balloon. > > I'm not sure when this particular model was put in production but I think > a bubble sextant was a common piece of navigational equipment for long > distance aircraft throughout the 1920ies to 1950ies (maybe even 60ies?). > > If this instrument is useful for more than one aircraft it might be nice > to put it in Aircraft/Instruments-3d/ > (maybe with a more specific directory name than BubbleSextant, though.) > > The archive and some documentation is available here: > http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/Celestial_navigation_in_fgfs/ > > Cheers, > > Anders
It could be funny to say that Blackbird, had Celestial navigation. So, such AC instrument FG development is not so obsolete. Cheers -- Gérard http://pagesperso-orange.fr/GRTux/ "J'ai décidé d'être heureux parce que c'est bon pour la santé. Voltaire " ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
