FlightGear Newsletter April 2011: Difference between revisions

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== FlightGear addons and mods ==
== FlightGear addons and mods ==
== In the hangar ==
== In the hangar ==
=== Vostok-1 ===
[[Image:Vostok-1-Carrier-News.png|thumb|Vostok-1 Carrier]]
[[Image:Vostok-1-News.png|thumb|Vostok-1 Spacecraft]]
[[Image:Vostok-1-Interior-News.png|thumb|Vostok-1 Interior]]
To celebrate Yury Gagarin historical flight [[Vostok-1]] carrier and spacecraft had added to FG. In heavily development still, it allows full orbital flight from liftoff to landing already, first spaceflight in Flight Gear.
Things what makes it possible:
*JSBSim centrifugal force addition made whole flight available.
*JSBSim property driven point masses, tanks and engines, aerodynamic coefficients implementation allows stages changing. Each stage of flight have independent mass scheme, propulsion system, aerodynamics reactions, so simulation is more or less realistic.
*Datcom+ with "little wing" approach resolves carrier and spacecraft aerodynamic exactly enough to make flight on real fuel and oxidizer capacities with real g forces, orbit and deorbit paths.
*Zan's shader makes Earth looks pretty enough on high altitudes.
*FG improvement shifted practical flight celling from 80 to 160 kilometers.
First human spaceflight was fully automated. In Flight Gear it manual fully instead, to make it interesting and to let You understand how that stuff is going really.
Authors and developers, since Flight Gear orbital flight is possible for now, You are invited to make FG driven Mercury-Atlas project. Low Earth Orbit flights can be more exact and eyecandy in Flight Gear than in any current simulator. And You can be sure it will be free for You and users in any case.
=== New instruments ===
=== New instruments ===
The [[Boeing 777-200ER]]'s chronometer has been moved to the generic instruments directory (<tt>Aircraft/Instruments-3d/chronometer</tt>). This allows aircraft developers to easily implement this clock in their aircraft. All related Nasal code was included in the model xml file, so there's really just one file to be linked to! Some aircraft already make use of this clock, including the [[Boeing 747-400]] and [[Boeing 757-200|757-200]].  
The [[Boeing 777-200ER]]'s chronometer has been moved to the generic instruments directory (<tt>Aircraft/Instruments-3d/chronometer</tt>). This allows aircraft developers to easily implement this clock in their aircraft. All related Nasal code was included in the model xml file, so there's really just one file to be linked to! Some aircraft already make use of this clock, including the [[Boeing 747-400]] and [[Boeing 757-200|757-200]].  
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