RE: [Flightgear-devel] Spitfire Hurricane manuals

2004-03-09 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 02:35, Jon Stockill wrote: On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Vivian Meazza wrote: delightful to fly, and forgiving in combat manoeuvre. Unlike the Typhoon and the Tempest the engine didn't stop or the tail fall off, although if you really went mad you could break the wings. It was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: [BUG] Hunter noise UV face singularity

2004-03-04 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 00:57, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Vivian Meazza -- Thursday 04 March 2004 09:44: Vivian, Vyvyan = male Bah ... you were kidding, weren't you? http://images.google.com/images?q=vivian m. :-P Watch the BBC's 80's comedy, the Young Ones, the punk was called

[Flightgear-devel] OT: Linux Simulations website.

2004-02-22 Thread Matthew Johnson
Sorry for the OT message: Just got http://www.linuxsimulations.org up and running again, seriously lacking in much at the moment. Hopefully will be better this time! Especially as I live in a house, much less likely to be moving soon :). Many thanks, Matt PS Also now back with broadband

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Baby

2004-02-19 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 11:55, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Hi, quick announcement ... baby! Amelia Esther, 8lbs 1oz, born 6:12am this morning, less than 1 hour from first contraction to delivery. 12 minutes from arrival at the hospital to delivery. Everyone is doing good. I'll be pretty much

re: [Flightgear-devel] Combat anti-flame

2003-11-10 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 16:17, David Megginson wrote: Andy Ross writes: In an attempt to depoliticize the combat flame war as much as possible, it's worth pointing out that, irrespective of people's opinions on the matter, there are not a lot of combat features we can really avoid

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Making a 3D Sea Harrier FRS.1

2003-10-16 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 22:19, Lee Elliott wrote: On Thursday 16 October 2003 01:21, Andy Ross wrote: Matthew Johnson wrote: Thought I'd take a stab at this, decided to try and make a 3D rendition of the Sea Harrier, especially since we have the Harrier in FG, but without a 3D

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Making a 3D Sea Harrier FRS.1

2003-10-16 Thread Matthew Johnson
snip Eeep, was working late http://pwp.netzon.net/~stargoat/Shar/sharskel.ac I'm afraid that link doesn't work for me:( LeeE ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Making a 3D Sea Harrier FRS.1

2003-10-16 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 13:15, Lee Elliott wrote: On Thursday 16 October 2003 20:59, Matthew Johnson wrote: snip Eeep, was working late http://pwp.netzon.net/~stargoat/Shar/sharskel.ac I'm afraid that link doesn't work for me:( LeeE Got it - needs a bit more

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Making a 3D Sea Harrier FRS.1

2003-10-15 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 17:21, Andy Ross wrote: Matthew Johnson wrote: Thought I'd take a stab at this, decided to try and make a 3D rendition of the Sea Harrier, especially since we have the Harrier in FG, but without a 3D model (I think it needs one!). So far I have started

[Flightgear-devel] Making a 3D Sea Harrier FRS.1

2003-10-14 Thread Matthew Johnson
Good day, Thought I'd take a stab at this, decided to try and make a 3D rendition of the Sea Harrier, especially since we have the Harrier in FG, but without a 3D model (I think it needs one!). So far I have started by looking for a plan that I can follow, but have only found a 3 view plan

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Re: AN225

2003-10-02 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 18:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * Jon S Berndt -- Wednesday 01 October 2003 22:41: Could anyone provide a screen dump image of this aircraft flying in FlightGear? Not exactly flying, but ... http://www.unet.univie.ac.at/~a8603365/fgfs10.jpeg (70kB) m.

RE: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Angry rant: the end of david@megginson.com

2003-08-28 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 16:54, Norman Vine wrote: To all concerned May we please put this thread to rest and allow FGFS to return to soaring above petty OS bigotry Yes! No one cares about which OS you're using (I really do not!). Or applications, please take David's contention based on what

Re: ..OT: blue paint bucket toss, was: [Flightgear-devel][OT] Angry rant: the end of david@megginson.com

2003-08-27 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 01:25, Matevz Jekovec wrote: Not at all. Things go wrong in airliners flown by scheduled carriers all the time, and usually no one suffers anything more than stress from a delay or rerouting. Injuries and fatalities are very rare in scheduled airline incidents or

Re: ..OT: blue paint bucket toss, was: [Flightgear-devel] [OT]Angry rant: the end of david@megginson.com

2003-08-27 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 04:19, Tony Peden wrote: On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 14:08, David Megginson wrote: Matthew Johnson writes: Good point, something goes wrong on a commercial airliner very few, if anyone ever gets out alive... Not at all. Things go wrong in airliners flown

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Angry rant: the end of david@megginson.com

2003-08-27 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 23:48, Mally wrote: Oh well, it's fun to pick on MS, and they do deserve most of it, if for no other reason to pressure them to do better. But you will have security problems and issues no matter what software and OS you run. It may be fun, but when it extends

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Angry rant: the end of david@megginson.com

2003-08-27 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 11:23, Mally wrote: Matt The main swipes aren't so much at end users, as most just run what the computer came with, I am running Outlook Express because thats what came with the computer, this is the most common scenario, oh and it doesn't matter how much MS

Re: ..OT: blue paint bucket toss, was: [Flightgear-devel] [OT]Angry rant: the end of david@megginson.com

2003-08-26 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 11:11, Curtis L. Olson wrote: Arnt Karlsen writes: On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 10:09:51 -0500, Curtis L. Olson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ..to put it short: picture yourself on your single seat bike going full bore on the freeway just like

Re: [Flightgear-devel] next volunteer

2003-06-17 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 20:24, David Culp wrote: Matthew Johnson wrote: Animal could be a Swallow... African or European? Errr..I don't know... Matt ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman

Re: [Flightgear-devel] A320 progress

2003-06-16 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 07:31, Frederic BOUVIER wrote: Martin Spott wrote: Just an update on the A320 model : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-fgfs-02.png http://perso.wanadoo.fr/frbouvi/flightsim/a320-fgfs-03.png Hmmm, I _like_ your patriotism ;-) Thanks, On a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] next volunteer

2003-06-16 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 09:25, Martin Spott wrote: snip p.s. Why isn't there an O'Reilly FlightGear book yet? What mascot should they use? Do we have a FlightGear icon for Windows-/KDE-/Gnome-Desktops ? ;-) FlightGear icon...What would that look like, if I had the money a competition

[Flightgear-devel] Screen went white, then black after messing with clouds

2003-06-06 Thread Matthew Johnson
Hi, Just flying the B52 with all engines running, manually took her up to 10,000 feet, engaged autopilot to take her down to 1000 feet and to plot a course back to KSF0. Of course, minds do wander, so I messed with the cloud settings and tried to make everything clear. Unfortunately I ended up

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Screen went white, then black aftermessing with clouds

2003-06-06 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 23:46, Matthew Johnson wrote: Hi, Just flying the B52 with all engines running, manually took her up to 10,000 feet, engaged autopilot to take her down to 1000 feet and to plot a course back to KSF0. Of course, minds do wander, so I messed with the cloud settings

Re: [Flightgear-devel] C-GPTR ornithopter

2003-06-05 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Thu, 2003-06-05 at 19:59, Jim Wilson wrote: Michael Selig [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I think Lee did an amazing job w/ the model. He sure did. It is excellent work. Always amazing work from Lee. Wonder how quick it is for him to throw a plane together? I think he used several

Re: [Flightgear-devel] C-GPTR ornithopter

2003-06-05 Thread Matthew Johnson
We should also point out that the p51d is no slouch either. Jim has done a *lot* of work on the 3d interior as well. Very very true, trying to build a plane with ac3D and its a *lot* of work. The p51D exudes power and performance in FlightGear and that is not easy to accomplish. You're

Re: [Flightgear-devel] OT: First Flight

2003-04-05 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sat, 5 Apr 2003, Matthew Law wrote: On Thursday 03 April 2003 22:01, David Megginson wrote: I've simulated soft-field takeoffs on long, paved runways many times, and used the technique for real a few times this winter to get up before snow, ice, and slushy puddles in the middle of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Unable to access base package via CVS

2003-02-04 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Tue, 4 Feb 2003, James Turner wrote: Since the base cvs was brought back up, I haven't been able to update it: I get: cvs server: Updating . cvs [server aborted]: cannot stat /tmpcvslck: No such file or directory cvs [server aborted]: cannot stat /tmpcvslck: No such file or directory

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Harrier Data

2003-02-03 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Mon, 2003-02-03 at 08:47, Jon Stockill wrote: I had a trip to the South Yorkshire Air Museum this weekend - and now have silly amounts of data. I currently have in my grubby little mitts a Harrier GR3 aircrew manual, and a cd with a boat load of cockpit photos. I also have the offer of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Shuttle breaks up

2003-02-01 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 06:42, Jon Berndt wrote: For those of you who may not have heard, the Space Shuttle Columbia appears to have broken up on entry as it passed south of Dallas while at a speed of mach 10+. Oh my God :(. No other words I am afraid... Any thoughts on what may have happened?

RE: [Flightgear-devel] [OT] Shuttle breaks up

2003-02-01 Thread Matthew Johnson
On 1 Feb 2003, Tony Peden wrote: On Sat, 2003-02-01 at 14:56, Jon Berndt wrote: No doubt now that the focus will be on the left wing. But I'm wondering, is there anything that could have been done had the assessment gone the other way? ..heavy sigh... I do not believe so.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Problems with compiling 'clouds3d'

2003-01-26 Thread Matthew Johnson
On Sun, 2003-01-26 at 14:19, David Donohue wrote: As a little old New Zealander I am having trouble getting FlightGear to compile on Mandrake 9.0. The problem lies with SimGear-0.3.1 where I get the following message: SkyContext.cpp In constructor 'SkyContext::SkyContext() invalid

Re: [Flightgear-devel] CVS Confusion

2003-01-11 Thread Matthew Johnson
Do the instructions on http://linuxsimulations.org help even a bit? Wrote it myself, let me know if it makes sense :). Tried to break the process down as much as possible. Matt On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 07:56, Mike Bonar wrote: Please help a newbie out. I am a little confused about how to stay up

[Flightgear-devel] Info on the TSR2

2003-01-09 Thread Matthew Johnson
at Duxford if you get the chance too. -- Matthew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 747 segfault

2003-01-06 Thread Matthew Johnson
mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel -- Matthew Johnson Public Key 9560 AE15 A443 7FE5 E927 84D2 CD17 CF25 405C B240 ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear Modification Project

2003-01-05 Thread Matthew Johnson
a potentially good model. Perhaps they should have waited until version 1.0 of Flight Gear came out and waited for a binary... -- Matthew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org

Re: [Flightgear-devel] main.cxx: glXGetProcAddressARB undeclared,and warnings

2003-01-03 Thread Matthew Johnson
bug). The fix listed here fixed my issue. -- Matthew Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel