On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 18:07:11 +0100, Geoff wrote in message <1297444031.6683.16.camel@DELL02>:
> And Arnt, with less that 10 inches of rain per year, > they would probably have to import grass from Germany, or > somewhere ;=)) ..maybe they did, Google shows 08/26 as green. ;o) > On my last visit I did not walked down to the end > of 33, but note FG scenery seems to changes surfaces > about 2/3 down, and I do not know why. Its apt.dat > displacement/overrun numbers seem 0000.0000??? > > I guess 33 looks brownish in Google-time due to some recent > red dust storm, or something, because I remember it as > 'blacker', but forgot to get a picture... ..maybe Google got their pix just after those runway ends were tarred? Doing the runway ends first, makes good sense to keep dust out of the power plants. ..googling, I found reason to advice airport and scenery modellers of these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarmac http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macadam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chipseal http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirt_road http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravel_road ...and of "tar" and "asphalt" ... ;o) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitumen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asphalt_concrete ..what I didn't find, was info on salting dirt roads in the summer to bind dust, AFAIR, this was done after grading it, and in a dry coupla weeks, the road surface would harden and pick up a blue sheen from the tire rubber deposited onto it. This wasn't weatherproof and was lost in the first day of rain, which usually also added pot holes, requiring a new grading pass every 6 or so weeks, so it was "asphalted" ;o) about 40years ago. ..http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washboarding is also relevant to landing gear modeling, but isn't quite understood by the RL road engineers either. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
