Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-14 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Saturday 08 May 2004 00:28, Curtis L. Olson wrote: For an upcoming newsletter article I am [hopefully] writing an introduction to modeling aircraft flight dynamics in YASim. For a subsequent issue of the newsletter I think I'd like to walk the reader through the process of creating a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-10 Thread Roy Vegard Ovesen
On Saturday 08 May 2004 00:28, Curtis L. Olson wrote: For an upcoming newsletter article I am [hopefully] writing an introduction to modeling aircraft flight dynamics in YASim. For a subsequent issue of the newsletter I think I'd like to walk the reader through the process of creating a

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-04 Thread Giles Robertson
How about: On a wing and a prayer (or are we all too atheist? - I am, and don't care, but some might) Giles Robertson -Original Message- From: John Check [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 03 May 2004 20:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-04 Thread Gunnstein Lye
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Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-04 Thread Jim Wilson
John Check said: On Monday 03 May 2004 02:52 am, Durk Talsma wrote: On Sunday 02 May 2004 17:20, Jonathan Richards wrote: Firstly, a title. Jon's newsletter is called 'Back of the Envelope', which I think is particularly clever - JSBSim is anything but a back-of-the-envelope

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-03 Thread Durk Talsma
On Sunday 02 May 2004 17:20, Jonathan Richards wrote: Firstly, a title. Jon's newsletter is called 'Back of the Envelope', which I think is particularly clever - JSBSim is anything but a back-of-the-envelope calculation, and there are echoes of flight envelope, too. The first thing I could

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-03 Thread Alex Perry
On Sunday 02 May 2004 17:20, Jonathan Richards wrote: Firstly, a title. Runway behind you ... one of the three classic things, useless to a pilot NewsGear ... in line with Curt's naming pattern The shouting wind ... from High Flight (better for the mailing list tho) Joystick and Pedal ... our

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-03 Thread Chris Horler
I've not read all the mails, my apologies if I'm duplicating. I'm reminded of the cartoon Tail Spin... this might be an idea (drawing on Normans earlier Tail..Tale) also Cabin Talk Flight Times My favourite of the suggestions I've seen so far was Gear Chatter Chris

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-03 Thread Chris Horler
On Monday 03 May 2004 10:37, Chris Horler wrote: I've not read all the mails, my apologies if I'm duplicating. I'm reminded of the cartoon Tail Spin... this might be an idea (drawing on Normans earlier Tail..Tale) It might have even been called Talespin actually... also Cabin Talk Flight

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-03 Thread Jon Berndt
snip FlightBeer. A just reward. :-) Hmm. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3286049.stm refers, I think :¬) Nonetheless, your entry is in the hat; multiple tries are allowed! Actually, that wasn't an entry for the newsletter title, but a little joke about the reward! Jon

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-03 Thread Jim Wilson
Jon Berndt said: snip FlightBeer. A just reward. :-) Hmm. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3286049.stm refers, I think :¬) Nonetheless, your entry is in the hat; multiple tries are allowed! Actually, that wasn't an entry for the newsletter title, but a little joke about the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Monday 26 Apr 2004 5:39 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote, among other things: There is a *lot* of things going on with the FlightGear project at various levels and it would be nice to have a monthly or quarterly summary in newsletter form for ourselves too. I've volunteered to help John

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Rick Ansell
On Sun, 2 May 2004 16:20:08 +0100 Jonathan Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Firstly, a title. Jon's newsletter is called 'Back of the Envelope', which I think is particularly clever - JSBSim is anything but a back-of-the-envelope calculation, and there are echoes of flight envelope,

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Jon Berndt
I've volunteered to help John Wojnaroski with editing a FlightGear newsletter, This is great news. Firstly, a title. Jon's newsletter is called 'Back of the Envelope', which I think is particularly clever - JSBSim is anything but a back-of-the-envelope calculation, and there are echoes of

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Charles Puffer
Jonathan Richards wrote: On Monday 26 Apr 2004 5:39 pm, Curtis L. Olson wrote, among other things: There is a *lot* of things going on with the FlightGear project at various levels and it would be nice to have a monthly or quarterly summary in newsletter form for ourselves too. I've

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Jim Wilson
Jonathan Richards said: Firstly, a title. Jon's newsletter is called 'Back of the Envelope', which I think is particularly clever - JSBSim is anything but a back-of-the-envelope calculation, and there are echoes of flight envelope, too. I'm severely lacking inspiration of this calibre, so

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Erik Hofman
Jonathan Richards wrote: Firstly, a title. How about: Don't panic in nice and friendly letters? Erik ___ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Jonathan Richards
On Sun May 2 11:08:06 CDT 2004, Jon Berndt jsb at hal-pc.org wrote: snip FlightBeer. A just reward. :-) Hmm. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3286049.stm refers, I think :¬) Nonetheless, your entry is in the hat; multiple tries are allowed! I thought things were a bit quiet through the day,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 02 May 2004 19:25:24 +0200, Erik wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Jonathan Richards wrote: Firstly, a title. How about: Don't panic in nice and friendly letters? ..nah, needs a devilish smiley like in that gourmet abo line in the Crocodile Dundee movie: 'Nah, needs

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread John Check
On Sunday 02 May 2004 01:25 pm, Erik Hofman wrote: Jonathan Richards wrote: Firstly, a title. How about: Don't panic in nice and friendly letters? Resistance Is Useless You could have a bad poem of the month. :-D Erik ___ Flightgear-devel

RE: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Norman Vine
Jonathan Richards writes: If anyone sent me an entry off-list, it would be a good idea to resend. Probably to English specific but the first thing I thought of Eagle Tails Note Tail and Tale are pronounced the same in English Tale: A recital of events or happenings; a report or

Re: [Flightgear-devel] FlightGear news letter

2004-05-02 Thread Al West
On Sunday 02 May 2004 16:20, Jonathan Richards wrote: Firstly, a title. Jon's newsletter is called 'Back of the Envelope', which How about Foxtrot Golf ? Secondly, we're missing suggestions for content. Suggest away, but what I'd really like is for you to suggest and volunteer to write, as