North American X-15
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| Type | Rocket-powered aircraft |
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| Author(s) | Mike Hill, Jon S. Berndt (FDM), John Check |
| FDM | JSBSim |
| --aircraft= | X15, X15-new |
| Status | Unknown |
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A famous rocket plane for FlightGear 1.0.
Of the two out three surviving X-15, one is a the National Air and Space Museum
Development status/Issues/Todo
Outside:
- textures are bumpy
- flaps are not animated
- rudder, ailerons and pitch elevator are not animated
- cockpit windows are not transparent
- aircraft has no shadow
- no aircraft light available
- there is no stream behind the rocket engine visible
3d Cockpit:
- no 3d cockpit available
General:
- engines have no sound
- no hud available
- aircraft has no braking parachutes
Ballistic high altitude flight and rendering
Flightgear is able to render the scene for the ballistic high altitude flight the X-15 is capable of (at least on a modern graphics card), but it needs some special adjustments to do so. Assume the visibility at arc top should be 500 km:
- from the menu, LOD bare range needs to be set to 500000.0
- in the property browser, /sim/rendering/camera-group/zfar needs to be set to 500000.0
- in the weather menu, configure visibility at high altitude to 500000.0 m
- use the Atmospheric Light Scattering framework to get the correct visuals of being outside the atmosphere in the rendering menu
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