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> > Jon Berndt wrote:
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> > I like it. Sort of P-38-ish. Looks like it would fly just fine. Have you
> > calculated any theoretical moments of inertia or stability derivatives?
It
> > might be interesting to try it out in a flight simulator.
Jens Strohmeyer <j.s### [at] tu-bs de> wrote in message
> Hello Jon !
> Of course I have.
> But so far, I havent had the possibility of testing it in a simulator
> because I dont have a flight simulator aircraft construction tool. :(
> It would be great to test it that way, I already thought about it.
> I have read some info about FLIGHT GEAR quite a while ago.
> Do you think it will be sufficient for that task ?
I am biased. ;-) I am the coordinator for JSBSim, an open source flight
dynamics model (FDM) that is used for FlightGear, along with the NASA
Langley LaRCsim FDM. For the past two years I have been writing a C++ FDM,
with the cooperation of a couple other guys. If you can give me the mass
properties and stability derivatives I can model it. See the link below in
my signature. FlightGear/JSBSim currently models the C-172 and the X-15. I'd
like to create a movie using the data output from FlightGear/JSBSim and use
POV-Ray to render the approach and landing.
> I don't know about the current development stage though.
(see www.flightgear.org) We are at version 0.7.4 and just finished showing
at the San Jose Linux World show. There is one Linux distribution that is
now including FlightGear (Debian? Mandrake? SUSE? - it's not RedHat).
Jon
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Jon S. Berndt
JSBSim Project
www.hal-pc.org/~jsb/flightsim.html
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