On Tue, Mar 2, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Curtis Olson <curtol...@gmail.com> wrote:
> From time to time people mention that our j3cub model in FlightGear is > rather simplistic and dated by today's standards. It was a nice model for > the time when it was built, and it still flies great, but visually it hasn't > been updated to match the level of detail and quality we have with many of > the current FlightGear aircraft being developed. Thanks for the kind words, Curt. I put a lot of love into that model in the early 2000s, but with the speed of average (not high-end) video cards at the time, I had to keep the poly count very low. It would be great to see a more detailed J3 and Super Cub model. BTW, is really is fun to fly a little tail dragger like the J3, and it still does great wheel landings -- just make sure you're fast on the rudder. All the best, David > I recently discovered that I know someone who is pretty good friends with > the owner of Cub Crafters in Yakima, WA. Cub Crafters makes a modern kit > and a production version of the classic Super Cub design. They have a > "Carbon Cub" which is much lighter and stronger than the original steel tube > design. They even have an over powered super cub variant than can top out > at 180 mph +++ ! They are a cool company doing some really cool work. > Because of this personal connection with the owner of Cub Crafters, I think > I could get some more detailed specs and dimensions if someone in our > community was interested in building a modern "super cub" version of this > classic design. > Here is the Cub Crafter web site. Find your way to their calendar pages > too, they have some really great pictures on their web site. > http://cubcrafters.com/ > > The Piper Cub is one of the best known and best loved aircraft ever built so > it would be great to have a really nicely detailed version in FlightGear. > Aside from that, I have a personal selfish motivation. Recently my friend > and the ower of Cub Crafters got together, and because they both have > engineering brains, they started brain storming several cool projects that > they could combine forces on. A couple of these ideas are actually pretty > exciting and they are interested in seeing if they could pursue funding to > develop one or more of them. A nice 3d model of a Super Cub could be used > to prototype and visualize these ideas and demonstrate them to potential > funding organizations. > So if anyone out there is interested in tackling a super cub project for > FlightGear, let me know what kind of information you would need and I will > do my best to secure it for you. The super cub design has been around for a > long time so there is probably a ton of information on the web as well. It > might even be possible to do some simple instrumentation of a real carbon > cub to collect some actual flight test data (that would be a longer term > project ... but the owner of Cub Crafters is friendly towards that sort of > thing and I am currently developing some hardware and software that could be > used for that purpose.) > Best regards, > Curt. > -- > Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Flightgear-devel mailing list > Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
