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-RAFmk9-506.jpg http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/Celestial_navigation_in_fgfs/fgfs-RAFmk9-507.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 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Anders Gidenstam WWW: http://www.gidenstam.org/FlightGear/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
