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== History ==

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The FlightGear project was conceived on April 8, 1996 by David Murr who proposed a new flight simulator to be developed by volunteers<ref>David Murr (Apr 9, 1996).  FlightGear proposal 1.0: [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/rec.aviation.simulators/ny8HFBE5_T8/OdtIiGNGJc8J "A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW FLIGHT SIMULATOR - home built!@"].  Published on the rec.aviation.simulators newsgroup.</ref><ref>David Murr (1996).  FlightGear proposal 2.0: [http://www.flightgear.org/proposal-2.0 FLIGHT GEAR "This truly is as real as it gets!" - a proposal for a new flight simulator - REVISION 2.0].</ref><ref>David Murr (Oct 29, 1996).  FlightGear proposal 3.0: [http://www.flightgear.org/proposal-3.0 FLIGHT GEAR FLIGHT SIMULATOR, revision 3.0 - Wednesday, 10.30.96, "The future of flight simulation is here"].  Published on the [http://ftp.igh.cnrs.fr/pub/flightgear/www/old-stuff/flight-gear.9610 flight-gear@infoplane.com mailing list].</ref><ref>David Murr (Sep 11, 1998).  FlightGear proposal 3.0.1: [http://www.flightgear.org/proposal-3.0.1 FLIGHT GEAR FLIGHT SIMULATOR, revision 3.0.1 - Friday, Sep.11.98, "The future of flight simulation is here"].</ref>.  Part of the initial goals were to develop 2D and 3D graphics routines for the simulator.  However this was a huge task that came to an unfinished halt at the start of 1997 as the main developer,  Eric Korpela, was finishing his thesis.  Therefore starting on May 16, 1997, Curtis Olson relaunched development with a new project based on the OpenGL libraries, allowing a functional flight simulator to be put together in a short period of time<ref>Curtis Olson (Sep 28, 2015).  [http://forum.flightgear.org/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=27558&p=259048#p259021 Re: A PROPOSAL FOR A NEW FLIGHT SIMULATOR - home built!@].  Published on the FlightGear forum.</ref>.  The first commits were to the original [[FlightGear CVS|flightgear and simgear CVS version control repositories]].