Re: [Flightgear-devel] newer stuff

2003-07-13 Thread C Hotchkiss
The quote that comes to mind goes something like "Sure the Mustang can't do what the Spitfire does, but doesn't do it over Berlin." Spitfires, like the Me's and Fw's lacked range because they were conceived of as tactical, not strategic, aircraft. They did their job very well, being more maneuv

Re: [Flightgear-devel] newer stuff

2003-07-12 Thread Erik Hofman
David Culp wrote: An archive with all the paraglider files is here: http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/paraglider.tar.gz This one is in CVS now. Enjoy! Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinf

Re: [Flightgear-devel] newer stuff

2003-07-11 Thread Jim Wilson
Lee Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I thought one of the major features of the p51 was it's range. I think it was > one of the few, if not the only fighter that had the range and endurance for > bomber escort duties from the UK into Germany. > > I believe that the German a/c were generally

Re: [Flightgear-devel] newer stuff

2003-07-11 Thread Lee Elliott
On Friday 11 July 2003 13:39, Jim Wilson wrote: > David Culp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > First a FW-190: http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/fw190.jpg > > This was just to test Aero-Matic, but it's turned out to be a nice flying > > machine. > > Only three projects at once? ;-) Wow. Nice st

Re: [Flightgear-devel] newer stuff

2003-07-11 Thread WillyB
On Thursday 10 July 2003 19:03, David Culp wrote: > I've been incomunicado for a while, so to catch up here's some stuff I've > been working on. > > First a FW-190: http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/fw190.jpg > This was just to test Aero-Matic, but it's turned out to be a nice flying > machine.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] newer stuff

2003-07-11 Thread Jim Wilson
David Culp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > First a FW-190: http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/fw190.jpg > This was just to test Aero-Matic, but it's turned out to be a nice flying > machine. Only three projects at once? ;-) Wow. Nice stuff! The FW-190 is quite the aircraft. That engine...14 cyli

Re: [Flightgear-devel] newer stuff

2003-07-11 Thread David Culp
> There is a very complete paper on the Schweizer here: > > www.dfrc.nasa.gov/DTRS/1990/PDF/H-1563.pdf Thanks Jon, I see that UIUC has made good use of this for their 1-36 model. The 1-36 looks to be a scaled-up 1-26, so the stability derivatives should be about the same for both. Dave --

RE: [Flightgear-devel] newer stuff

2003-07-10 Thread Jon Berndt
There is a very complete paper on the Schweizer here: www.dfrc.nasa.gov/DTRS/1990/PDF/H-1563.pdf > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Culp > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:04 PM > To: flightgear-devel > Subject:

[Flightgear-devel] newer stuff

2003-07-10 Thread David Culp
I've been incomunicado for a while, so to catch up here's some stuff I've been working on. First a FW-190: http://home.comcast.net/~davidculp2/fw190.jpg This was just to test Aero-Matic, but it's turned out to be a nice flying machine. Then there's the paraglider: http://home.comcast.net/~davi