They had a scene where the wreckage from the crash was spread out in a hangar ... the camera pulled back and then the shattered parts all started to pull together and reassemble themselves and become brand new again, and in the end this pile of wreckage (which the actors were just walking through) turned into a brand new plane suspended in the air in the hangar. I'm not much of a 3d modeler, but that had to have been an incredibly massive effort to pull that off and splice it into the real scene.
Lots of fun to see FlightGear in action though ... they started out in nice day weather, then cut to night, then added clouds, then blanked the instrument panel. That all looked really sharp, the instrument panel looked very sharp. The only thing I cringed at was the daytime replay of the crash. I'm not sure what they did to screw that up. Oh well, at least the bad parts flashed by quickly too. :-)
I was also very impressed at how dramatically the actor playing an FAA expert with 30 years of flying experience skillfully wiggled the controls (knowing that the actor had no clue what he was doing and I had disconnected the controls so he couldn't screw up the flight, so the actual flight was entirely scripted.)
Hehe, and I see that FlightGear is probably the world's only flight simulator with a fake hollywood remote control that can instantly flip between day, night, clouds, and electrical failure of the instrument panel ... conveniently almost like going to the next power point slide.
FlightGear & ATC Flight Simulators save the day!
Curt.
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Curtis Olson - University of Minnesota - FlightGear Project
http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/ http://www.humanfirst.umn.edu/ http://www.flightgear.org
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