On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 9:38 AM, S Andreason wrote: > Curtis Olson wrote: > > Has anyone developed a more detailed model of a sky diver? I'm > > especially interested in the free fall phase. (My brother is up to > > his 38th jump now I think.) > I most certainly have! > Have you looked at bluebird or my other shuttlecraft?? (which for the > moment are more up to date) > > The free fall stage is carefully modeled with physics and formulas in mind. > > To see drag constant for spread eagle, and time to reach terminal > velocity, etc. etc. > Look at Nasal/walk.nas and search for "eagle" > > Stewart > http://seahorseCorral.org/flightgear_aircraft.html >
Hey, that's pretty neat (the bluebird is part of CVS if anyone else wants to play.) Question, is there a way to turn the walker? I found forward/back and left/right but he always faces the same direction. Regards, Curt. -- Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/
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