Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-24 Thread Jon Stockill
On Sat, 24 Apr 2004, Al West wrote: Did you get a contact at IBM? I'm sure they'd be happy to lend/donate a Workstation for development purposes. I can see it will be very likely that I didn't unfortunately - it was just a quick question from a girl in their high performance division, who was

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-23 Thread Matthew Law
Lee Elliott wrote: It sounds as though things went really well - round of applause to all concerned. I wish I could have got up there, if only to visit but sadly, there wasn't any way I could make it. Ditto. I'll definitely try and be there next year. Well done guys! All the best, Matt.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-23 Thread Jon Stockill
On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Al West wrote: It was highly enjoyable to be able to talk to people about something one is very interested in and I am disappointed that both days passed by so quickly. My congratulations go out to the two Jons who did a fantastic job in instructing during the show. It

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-23 Thread Richard Bytheway
You can find my pictures at http://photos.stockill.org.uk/ludex2004 I have to ask, what is img_0006.jpg (Captioned It's evil but it might just work.)? Richard ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-23 Thread Vivian Meazza
Jon Stockill wrote The Fleet Air Arm Museum are very interested in having their own simulator but this would depend on them being able to find a sponsor - so it's still dubious as to if anything will happen in that respect. They have a Vampire cockpit which they're using

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-23 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Friday 23 Apr 2004 1:22 pm, Richard Bytheway wrote: You can find my pictures at http://photos.stockill.org.uk/ludex2004 I have to ask, what is img_0006.jpg (Captioned It's evil but it might just work.)? Richard It's the arrangement of two potentiometers at right angles that we

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-23 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Friday 23 Apr 2004 4:11 pm, Vivian Meazza wrote: Jon Stockill wrote snip They were particularly impressed with the Seahawk and hunter models, so if Vivian wants to do a Seafire version of his spitfire model I'm sure they'd be happy to supply some information. The thought had crossed

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-23 Thread Vivian Meazza
Jonathan Richards On Friday 23 Apr 2004 4:11 pm, Vivian Meazza wrote: Jon Stockill wrote snip They were particularly impressed with the Seahawk and hunter models, so if Vivian wants to do a Seafire version of his spitfire model I'm sure they'd be happy to supply some

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-23 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Friday 23 Apr 2004 5:24 pm, Vivian Meazza wrote: Jonathan Richards snip I'm prepared to write to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight [1] and ask them for information. snip I think that would be a very good idea. I think I have evolved a pretty good idea of what it did from various

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-23 Thread Vivian Meazza
Jonathan Richards wrote On Friday 23 Apr 2004 5:24 pm, Vivian Meazza wrote: Jonathan Richards snip I'm prepared to write to the Battle of Britain Memorial Flight [1] and ask them for information. snip I think that would be a very good idea. I think I have evolved a pretty

RE: [Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-23 Thread Jon Stockill
On Fri, 23 Apr 2004, Richard Bytheway wrote: You can find my pictures at http://photos.stockill.org.uk/ludex2004 I have to ask, what is img_0006.jpg (Captioned It's evil but it might just work.)? Heh :-) That's the kit that interfaced the cyclic... -- Jon Stockill [EMAIL

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-23 Thread Al West
On Friday 23 April 2004 10:59, Jon Stockill wrote: They were particularly impressed with the seahawk and hunter models, so if Vivian wants to do a Seafire version of his spitfire model I'm sure they'd be happy to supply some information. Also they said they would be happy to help with anyone

Re: [Flightgear-devel] 2004 Linux User Developer Expo

2004-04-22 Thread Lee Elliott
On Thursday 22 April 2004 20:29, Al West wrote: Greetings All, I think it was very successful show. I estimate we got about 80 or so people a day flying with FlightGear, around 10% managed to land. It was a shame that we were not able to use the controls within the helicopter, due to a