Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-21 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi, I've started the manual for J7W Shinden, which is available at: http://macflightgear.sourceforge.net/home/aircraft/j7w/j7w-manual/ Japanese version is also available at: http://macflightgear.sourceforge.net/home/aircraft/j7w/j7w-manual-jp/ SInce I'm neither a pilot nor aircraft engineer,

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-21 Thread Georg Vollnhals
Tatsuhiro Nishioka schrieb: Hi, I've started the manual for J7W Shinden, which is available at: .. Anyway, I hope it helps many users. Tat Indeed, lacking documentation is often increasing frustration. You gave your wonderful aircraft a very nice doc, so thank you very much from the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-21 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
On Feb 21, 2007, at 4:07 PM, Georg Vollnhals wrote: Indeed, lacking documentation is often increasing frustration. You gave your wonderful aircraft a very nice doc, so thank you very much from the user-side :-) Regards Georg EDDW My pleasure. I'm also concerned about it. Though there are

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-20 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi, I've updated J7W Shinden. The latest version is available at: http://macflightgear.sourceforge.net/home/aircraft/j7w/ Martin, Could you commit it by downloading the diff file and binary files from the link above? Files and instruction are at around the diff file from 20070131 (for CVS

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-06 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Dave, On Feb 5, 2007, at 8:35 PM, Dave Perry wrote: Hi Tat, Thanks for this great addition! I took a look at the j7w Shindon including the j7w.xml yasim configuration. Did you know there is a command line yasim in $FG_ROOT/bin that allows you to get a lot of feedback from a trial config

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-06 Thread John Denker
On 02/06/2007 03:47 PM, Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: I calculated the position of CG with the equation obtained at: http://www.paragonair.com/public/docs/FAA-Handbooks/8083-01_WnB/ 8083-01_ch08.pdf According to this document, the distance from the nose to the CG is calculated as: CGoffset

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-06 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi John, On Feb 6, 2007, at 2:33 PM, John Denker wrote: CGoffset = D - (F*L) / W[1] where D is the distance between the front wheel and the main wheel, F is the weight of the front wheel, L is the distance between the nose and the main wheel, and W is the total weight

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-06 Thread Dave Perry
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 12:47 -0800, Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: Dave, On Feb 5, 2007, at 8:35 PM, Dave Perry wrote: I made an estimate from the 3D model as to approximately where the CG should be. The main wing should carry most of the weight, so since the wing is swept, I tried

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-05 Thread Dave Perry
On Thu, 2007-02-01 at 13:43 -0800, Tatsuhiro Nishioka wrote: I hope many people fly it and tell me how to improve the stability without doing this. I know it's supposed to be a bit unstable but it's too unstable without this workaround. Hi Tat, Thanks for this great addition! I took a

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-03 Thread Melchior FRANZ
Hi, * Tatsuhiro Nishioka -- Saturday 03 February 2007: * On Feb 2, 2007, at 2:18 AM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Ah, it doesn't mean I don't have to fix it, but means I should implement the canopy soon. I didn't mean to complain about the canopy animation. The patch was just a suggestion how to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-03 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Melchior, On Feb 3, 2007, at 1:23 AM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * On Feb 2, 2007, at 2:18 AM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: Ah, it doesn't mean I don't have to fix it, but means I should implement the canopy soon. I didn't mean to complain about the canopy animation. The patch was just a suggestion

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-02 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Tatsuhiro Nishioka -- Friday 02 February 2007: Actually the canopy of J7W is temporal for now so opening/closing canopy is not implemented yet. I know that the canopy isn't animated yet. But seeing how you intended to do it in the Nasal code was reason enough to fix it already. Only after

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-02 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Melchior, On Feb 2, 2007, at 2:18 AM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Tatsuhiro Nishioka -- Friday 02 February 2007: Actually the canopy of J7W is temporal for now so opening/closing canopy is not implemented yet. I know that the canopy isn't animated yet. But seeing how you intended to do it in

[Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-01 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Hi, I've started J7W Shinden, an Imperial Japanese Navy intercepter for FlightGear. You can download it from: http://macflightgear.sourceforge.net/home/aircraft/ Shinden has a canard configuration with a pusher propeller and it's aerodynamically too unstable in yasim so I made it a bit too

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-01 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Tatsuhiro Nishioka -- Thursday 01 February 2007: Could you check in the files for 0.9.10 (and for CVS) into the CVS repository in the same way you did Ki-84 for me? Checked in, thanks. Very funny aircraft. :-) I haven't made a 0.9.10 compatibility branch yet. What would be the differences?

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-01 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Melchior, Thanks! On Feb 1, 2007, at 2:16 PM, Melchior FRANZ wrote: * Tatsuhiro Nishioka -- Thursday 01 February 2007: Could you check in the files for 0.9.10 (and for CVS) into the CVS repository in the same way you did Ki-84 for me? Checked in, thanks. Very funny aircraft. :-) Yes

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-01 Thread Melchior FRANZ
* Tatsuhiro Nishioka -- Friday 02 February 2007: Melchior, I haven't made a 0.9.10 compatibility branch yet. What would be the differences? Only the n/N bindings? At this moment, yes. Err ... but the /sim/signals/fdm-initialized listener won't work on 0.9.10. This signal was introduced

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-01 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Melchior, # you sent me some of emails but this topic can be shared with others, so I'll post it to the list. Thanks for sending me the patch. I'm going to update the script with your patch (for both Ki-84 and J7W). I will also have implement the canopy movement in j7w/Models/j7w.xml soon if

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-01 Thread Jon S. Berndt
Shinden has a canard configuration with a pusher propeller and it's aerodynamically too unstable in yasim so I made it a bit too forgiving in stalling for now. I hope many people fly it and tell me how to improve the stability without doing this. I know it's supposed to be a bit unstable but

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-01 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
On Feb 1, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Jon S. Berndt wrote: How did you get the aerodynamic coefficients? Is there any published data for this? Jon Well, no web articles or books are available for aerodynamic coefficients of this aircraft, so most of the parameters are guesstimate at this moment.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-01 Thread Jon S. Berndt
discussions Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden On Feb 1, 2007, at 5:09 PM, Jon S. Berndt wrote: How did you get the aerodynamic coefficients? Is there any published data for this? Jon Well, no web articles or books are available for aerodynamic coefficients of this aircraft

Re: [Flightgear-devel] J7W Shinden

2007-02-01 Thread Tatsuhiro Nishioka
Jon, Thanks for the link. Now all I have are Macs, so I'll try it when I go back to Japan. Tat On Feb 1, 2007, at 7:33 PM, Jon S. Berndt wrote: DATCOM+ could probably help, here, but it is not an easy tool for beginners. See www.holycows.net/datcom. Jon