Pterosaur: Difference between revisions

The '''Pterosaur''' in Flightgear uses a [[JSBSim]] model of flapping wings based on research papers. The Pterosaur model sports the ALS organic wingflex effect. Combined with Flightgear's [https://www.flightgear.org/tours/advanced-weather-v1-4-in-flightgear-2-6/ terrain-driven] weather modelling including [http://wiki.flightgear.org/Soaring thermals] with [[Advanced_weather|Advanced Weather]], the Pterosaur allows you some access to the experience flying with natural (flapping) wings, perhaps as you might have wondered about in the past when there was no such simulation available.

Pterosaurs were vetebrates that lived during the Mezozoic era, from 228 to 66 Million years ago. Pterosaurians evolved membrane like wings made of skin, fine hair-like down, muscle and sinew. They were the first vertebrates to achieve powered flight, some 228 million years before humans did with assistance from technology and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_on_the_Flight_of_Birds inspiration] from those vertebrates that had come before.