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===North American P-51D Mustang=== | ===North American P-51D Mustang=== | ||
Hal V. Engel has made some massive improvements to the [[P-51D Mustang|P51-D]]. Using NACA (the pre-cursor to NASA) published data, he's produced a very impressive [[JSBSim]] FDM. He's also made a number of improvements to the 3D cockpit and the engine systems. Those who enjoy their WWII warbirds will be very interested indeed. Your correspondent has still to manage a take-off from the runway without at least one bounce, but can report that the landing characteristics, while not benign, are at least manageable. This is an aircraft that will really repay some effort on the part of the pilot to get to know, and almost certainly represents the most accurate warbird FDM we have available. | Hal V. Engel has made some massive improvements to the [[P-51D Mustang|P51-D]]. Using NACA (the pre-cursor to NASA) published data, he's produced a very impressive [[JSBSim]] FDM. He's also made a number of improvements to the 3D cockpit and the engine systems. Those who enjoy their WWII warbirds will be very interested indeed. Your correspondent has still to manage a take-off from the runway without at least one bounce, but can report that the landing characteristics, while not benign, are at least manageable. This is an aircraft that will really repay some effort on the part of the pilot to get to know, and almost certainly represents the most accurate warbird FDM we have available. | ||
[[File:Short_Empire.jpg|thumb|250px|Short S.23 Empire flying boat.]] | |||
===Short S.23 Empire flying boat=== | |||
Anders Gidenstam has added a [[Short Empire|Short Empire flying boat]] to FlightGear/git. These aircraft served on the British Imperial Airways' African and Far east routes from 1936 to 1946. The model in FlightGear is work-in-progress but already has some interesting features: | |||
* Hydrodynamics and static buoyancy (on the water) based on data from fluid dynamics simulation and empirical results found in NACA reports (still has a long way to go, however). | |||
* A RAF mk.9 bubble sextant paired with a generic walk view (also used by Nordstern and Zeppelin NT) permits celestial navigation. | |||
* The livery selection dialog also selects the appropriate fuel system for the individual aircraft. | |||
There is a back port for FlightGear 2.0.0 users [http://www.flightgear.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=2473&p=90535#p90376 available here]. | |||
===AIM-9 Sidewinders on the F-14B Tomcat=== | ===AIM-9 Sidewinders on the F-14B Tomcat=== | ||