On Thursday 07 December 2006 03:09, Jon S. Berndt wrote: > Yes. My wife got me Jane's "Fighting Aircraft of World War I" a couple of > years ago for Christmas (an appropriate Christmas gift ...? :^), and there > are some good ones in there, the Sopwith Camel, a large Handley Page > biplane, and the Fokker Triplane are ones I'd like to see. I'd like to do a > bi- or tri-plane first because of the interesting aerodynamic modeling > challenge it poses, and second because these are so well known. They're > iconic, in a way.
Now that you mention biplanes and the Camel in particular... Vivian and I are about half done (actually, probably more than that) of a replacement Camel model. A better FDM config would be very nice... The behaviour of the current UIUC one doesn't really seem to tally with the pilot's reports I've read, though it does seem to have been based on some good data. I also recall seeing mentioned in the existing config somewhere that the CoG had been shifted to make it easier to fly - that's hardly the FG approach! Cheers, AJ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list Flightgear-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-users
