1 A very special thanks is due to the following people and groups.
3 Note: as hard as we've tried, it is impossible to perfectly maintain
4 this file. If you are aware of someone who you think should be
5 included here, PLEASE let me know. Projects like this are made
6 possible only by the help and hard work of others. I want to properly
7 credit everyone who has contributed to this project.
10 A1 Free Sounds <techie@mail.ev1.net> http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com
11 Granted permission for the flightgear project to use some of the
12 sound effects from their site.
15 Raul Alonzo <amil@las.es>
16 Mr. Alonzo is the author of Ssystem and provided his kind permission
17 for using the moon texture. I also used parts of his code as a template
18 when adding the texture. Ssystem Homepage can be found at:
19 http://www1.las.es/~amil/ssystem
22 Michele America <nomimarketing@mail.telepac.pt>
23 Contributed to the HUD code.
26 Michael Basler <pmb@knUUt.de>
27 Author of the Getting Started guide.
30 Jon S. Berndt <jsb@hal-pc.org>
31 Working on a complete C++ rewrite/reimplimentation of the core FDM.
32 Initially he is using X15 data to test his code, but once things are
33 all in place we should be able to simulator arbitrary aircraft.
34 Maintains a page dealing with Flight Dynamics at:
35 http://www.hal-pc.org/~jsb/flightsim.html
36 Special attention to X15 is paid in seperate pages.
39 Paul Bleisch <pbleisch@acm.org>
40 Paul redid the "debug" system so that it would be much more flexible,
41 so it could be easily disabled for production system, and so that
42 messages for certain subsystems could be selectively enabled.
43 Also contributed a first stab at a config file/command line parsing
47 Jim Brennan <jj@kingmont.com>
48 Provided a big chunk of online space to store USA scenery for Flight Gear.
51 Bernie Bright <bbright@c031.aone.net.au>
52 Many C++ style, usage, and implementation improvements.
53 STL portability, tons o' stuff. :-)
54 Currently trying to get a BeOS port together but life keeps getting
56 Threading support and threaded tile pager.
59 Bernhard H. Buckel <buckel@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de>
60 Contributed the README.Linux
61 Co-Author of the "Getting Started Manual"
64 Gene Buckle <geneb@deltasoft.com>
65 Gene has done a lot of work getting FG to compile with the MSVC++
66 compiler. Also, he has pushed, proded, and bugged me endlessly to
67 do my stuff right. (I mean that in a good way, because sometimes
68 when the little nudge in the right direction isn't working, I need
69 a good hard shove.) :-)
72 Ralph Carmichael <ralph@pdas.com>
73 Thanks to Ralph for his support of the FlightGear project. At
74 Public Domain Aeronautical Software you will find the PDAS CD-ROM for sale,
75 packed with great programs of use to aeronautical engineers. At this web
76 site there are also some sample downloads to show what is on the CD.
80 Didier Chauveau <chauveau@math.univ-mlv.fr>
81 Provided some initial code to parse the 30 arcsec DEM files found at:
82 http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/gtopo30/gtopo30.html
85 John Check <j4strngs@rockfish.net>
86 Maintains the base package repository
89 New instrument panel configurations
92 Dave Cornish <dmc@halcyon.com>
93 Created our new, super cool, runway textures.
94 Created some of our cloud textures.
97 Oliver Delise <delise@mail.isis.de>
98 FAQ Maintainer, Documentation, Public Relations.
99 Working on adding some networking / multi-user support.
100 Founder of the FlightGear MultiPilot Project :
101 http://www.isis.de/members/~odelise/progs/flightgear
104 Dave Eberly <eberly@magic-software.com>
105 Contributed some sphere interpolation code used by Christian Mayer's
106 weather data base system. Go to Dave's web site. He has a ton of
107 really useful looking code available there.
108 http://www.magic-software.com
112 Vector 2D, 3D, 4D and Matrix 3D and 4D inlined C++ classes. (Based on
113 Graphics Gems IV ed. Paul S. Heckbert)
114 http://www.animats.com/simpleppp/ftp/public_html/topics/developers.html
117 Francine Evans <evans@cs.sunysb.edu>
118 Wrote the @#$@#$@% GPL'd tri-striper we use and "love". :-)
119 http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~evans/stripe.html
122 Oscar Everitt <bigoc@premier.net>
123 Created single engine piston engine sounds as part of an F4U package
124 for FS98. They are pretty cool and Oscar was happy to contribute
125 them to our little project.
128 Bruce Finney <bfinney@gte.net>
132 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler <zlib@gzip.org>
133 Authors of the zlib library. Used for on-the-fly compression and
134 decompression routines.
135 http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
138 Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
139 Changes and updates for compiling on FreeBSD
142 Neetha Girish <neethagirish@usa.net>
143 Contributed the xml configurable HUD changes.
146 Jeff Goeke-Smith <jgoeke@voyager.net>
147 Contributed our first autopilot. (Heading Hold)
148 Better autoconf check for external timezone/daylight variables in
152 Michael I. Gold <gold@puck.asd.sgi.com>
153 Patiently answered my endless "newbie" OpenGL questions.
154 His effort alone has made me a great SGI fan.
157 Habibie <habibie@MailandNews.com>
158 RedHat package building changes for SimGear.
161 Mike Hill <mikehill@flightsim.com>
162 Contributed 3d aircraft models to our project.
163 http://www.flightsimnetwork.com/mikehill/home.htm
166 Erik Hofman <erik@ehofman.com>
167 Major overhaul and parameterization of the sound module, to allow
168 aircraft-specific sound configuration at runtime.
172 Charlie Hotchkiss <clhotch@pacbell.net>
173 Worked on improving and enhancing the HUD code.
174 Lots of code style tips and code tweaks ...
177 Bruce Jackson of NASA <e.b.jackson@larc.nasa.gov>
178 Developed the LaRCsim code under funding by NASA which we use to provide
179 the flight model. Bruce has patiently answered my many, many questions.
180 http://dcb.larc.nasa.gov/www/DCBStaff/ebj/ebj.html
183 Richard Kaszeta <bofh@me.umn.edu>
184 Contributed screen buffer to ppm screen shot routine.
185 Rich has also helped in the early development of the Flight Gear "altitude
186 hold autopilot module" by teaching Curt Olson the basics of Control Theory
187 and helping him code and debug early versions. Curt's "Boss" Bob Hain
188 also contributed <bob@me.umn.edu>. Further details available at:
189 http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/fgfs/Docs/Autopilot/AltitudeHold/AltitudeHold.html
190 Rich's Homepage: http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
193 Tom Knienieder <tom@knienieder.com>
194 Ported Steve's Audio library first to OpenBSD and IRIX and
195 after that also to Win32
198 Reto Koradi <kor@mol.biol.ethz.ch>
199 Helped me get on track with setting up fog effects.
200 http://www.mol.biol.ethz.ch/wuthrich/people/kor
203 Bob Kuehne <rpk@who.net>
204 Redid the Makefile system so it is simpler and more robust.
207 David Luff <david.luff@nottingham.ac.uk>
208 Contributed heavily to the IO360 piston engine model.
211 Christian Mayer <flightgear@christianmayer.de>
212 Working on a multi-lingual conversion tools for fgfs
213 as a demonstration of technology ;-)
214 Contributed code to read msfs formated texture files.
215 Working on a completely new weather subsystem.
216 Working on a balloon simulator.
219 David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
220 Contributed a patch to allow mouse input to control the yoke.
221 Contributed financially towards hard drive space for use by the
223 Updates to README.running.
224 Working on getting fgfs and ssg to work without textures.
225 Also added the new 2D panel and the save/load support.
227 Generalized input module
228 3D model animation module
229 initial take of sound-effects module
232 Eric Mitchell <mitchell@mars.ark.com>
233 Contributed some topnotch scenery textures. His textures were
234 all original creations.
237 Cameron Moore <cameron@unbeatenpath.net>
240 Self-proclaimed code janitor.
243 Anders Morken <amrken@online.no>
244 Maintained the European mirror of the FG web pages.
245 Unfortunately this mirror has been taken down due to reglementation
246 changes including an enforcement to 10 MB space per subscriber limit
247 which was way too small for the evergrowing FGFS Project's Files.
248 He'd be happy to maintain a new one if he could find a place to put it,
249 so if you have an idea, contact him!
252 Alan Murta <amurta@cs.man.ac.uk>
253 http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/
254 Created the Generic Polygon Clipping library
257 Phil Nelson <phil@cs.wwu.edu>
258 Author of GNU dbm. gdbm is a set of database routines that use
259 extendible hashing and works similar to the standard UNIX dbm routines.
262 Alexei Novikov <anovikov@heron.itep.ru>
263 Created European Scenery
264 Contributed a script to turn fgfs scenery into beautifully rendered
266 Contributed a first draft of a scenery creation howto.
269 Curt Olson <curt@flightgear.org>
270 Curt is responsible for overall project and source code management.
271 He has his hands in many of the areas, but is primarily responsible
272 for the scenery subsystem, as well as much of the infrastructure in
277 His TR Library: http://www.mesa3d.org/brianp/TR.html
278 And also Mesa of course: http://www.mesa3d.org
281 Tony Peden <apeden@earthlink.net>
282 Contributions on the flight model front, including a LaRCsim based
283 Cessna 172. JSBsim: the initial conditions code, a more complete
284 standard atmosphere model, and other bugfixes/additions.
285 His Flight Dynamics page can be found at:
286 http://www.nwlink.com/~apeden
289 Robin Peel <robin@cpwd.com>
290 Maintains the ever growing worldwide airport, runway, and navigation
291 aid database for the Flight Gear project as well as for X-Plane.
294 Alex Perry <alex.perry@ieee.org>
295 Contributed code to more accurately model VSI, DG, Altitude.
296 Contributed to the Install and Getting Started manual.
299 Friedemann Reinhard <mpt218@faupt212.physik.uni-erlangen.de>
300 Contributed beginnings of a textured instrument panel.
303 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@games.no>
304 Incorporated the Gnu automake/autoconf system (with libtool).
305 This should streamline and standardize the build process for all
306 Unix-like platforms. It should have little effect on IDE type
307 environments since the don't use the Unix make system.
310 William Riley <riley@technologist.com>
311 Contributed code to add "brakes".
312 Patch to support a first joystick with more than two axes.
315 Andy Ross <andy@plausible.org>
316 Contributed a new configurable FDM, "YASim", based on geometry
317 information rather than aerodynamic coefficients.
320 Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se>
321 Mr. Schlyter provided Durk Talsma with all the information
322 he needed to write the astro code. Mr. S. is also willing
323 to answer astro-related questions whenever one needs to.
324 http://welcome.to/pausch
327 Chris Schoeneman <crs@millpond.engr.sgi.com>
328 Contributed some 3d sound playing code for Irix, Win32, and Linux
329 It is unclear if this code will be used directly, but it certainly
330 will have an influence on the development of our own audio library.
333 Phil Schubert <philip@zedley.com>
334 Contributed various textures and engine modelling.
335 http://www.zedley.com/Philip/index.htm
338 Jonathan R Shewchuk <Jonathan_R_Shewchuk@ux4.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
339 Author of the Triangle program. Triangle is used to calculate the
340 Delauney triangulation of our irregular terrain.
343 Gordan Sikic <gsikic@public.srce.hr>
344 Contributed a cherokee flight model for LaRCsim.
345 Currently is not working and needs to be debugged.
346 Use configure --with-flight-model=cherokee
347 to build the cherokee instead of the navion.
350 Michael Smith <msmith99@flash.net>
351 Contributed cockpit graphics, 3d models, logos, and other images.
352 Project Bonanza - http://members.xoom.com/ConceptSim/index.html
355 Martin Spott <Martin.Spott@uni-duisburg.de>
356 Contributed to the installation / user guide.
359 U.S. Geological Survey
360 Provided geographic data used by this project
361 http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html
364 Durk Talsma <d.talsma@chello.nl>
365 Accurate Sun, Moon, and Planets.
366 Sun changes color based on position in sky.
367 Moon has correct phase and blends well into the sky.
368 Planets are correctly positioned and have proper magnitude.
369 Help with time functions, gui, and other misc stuff.
370 2D Cloud layers (nifty).
371 http://people.a2000.nl/dtals
374 UIUC - Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
375 Contributed modifications to LaRCsim to allow loading of aircraft
376 parameters from a file. These modifications were made as part of an
377 icing research project.
379 Did the coding and made it all work:
380 Jeff Scott <jscott@students.uiuc.edu>
381 Bipin Sehgal <bsehgal@uiuc.edu>
382 Michael Selig <m-selig@uiuc.edu>
384 Helped support the effort
385 Jay Thomas <jthomas2@uiuc.edu>
386 Eunice Lee <ey-lee@students.uiuc.edu>
387 Elizabeth Rendon <mdfhoyos@md.impsat.net.co>
388 Sudhi Uppuluri <suppulur@students.uiuc.edu>
391 Mark Vallevand <Mark.Vallevand@UNISYS.com>
392 Contributed some METAR parsing code.
393 Contributed some win32 screen printing routines.
396 Gary R. Van Sickle <tiberius@braemarinc.com>
397 Contributed some initial GameGLUT support and other fixes.
398 Has done some interesting preliminary work on a binary file format
399 http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/ORKiD/fgfs.htm
401 Has set up a 'Cygwin Tips' site that has been very helpful to many
402 people in getting a Cygwin Unix-on-Windows build environment set up
403 so they can build FG effectively.
404 http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/ORKiD/cygwin.htm
407 Norman Vine <nhv@yahoo.com>
408 Provided more than uncountable URL's to the "FlightGear Community".
409 Many performance optimizations throughout the code.
410 Many contributions and much advice for the scenery generation section.
411 Lots of windoze related contributions.
412 Contributed wgs84 distance and course routines.
413 Contributed a great circle route autopilot mode based on wgs84 routines.
414 Many other GUI, HUD, and autopilot contributions.
415 Contributed a patch to allow mouse input to control view direction.
416 Ultra hires tiled screen dumps.
417 Contributed the initial 'goto airport' and 'reset' functions
418 Contributed the initial http image server code
421 Roland Voegtli <voegtli@sanw.unibe.ch>
422 Great photorealistic textures.
423 Founder of European Scenery Project for X-Plane
424 http://www.g-point.com/xpcity/esp/
427 Carmelo Volpe <carmelo.volpe@mednut.ki.se>
428 Contributed some work to porting Flight Gear to the Metro Works
429 development environment (PC/Mac)
432 Darrell Walisser <dwaliss1@purdue.edu>
433 Contributed a large number of MacOS changes and has somehow managed
434 to get a pile of code written by a bunch of people who've never seen
435 a Mac to compile and run on said platform.
436 Provides MacOS-specific info in the docs.
439 Ed Williams <Ed_Williams@compuserve.com>
440 Contributed magnetic variation code (impliments Nima WMM 2000)
441 We've also borrowed from Ed's wonderful aviation formulary at various
443 http://www.best.com/~williams/index.html
446 Jim Wilson <jimw@kelcomaine.com>
447 Wrote a major overhaul of the viewer code to make it more flexible
448 and modular. Contributed many small fixes and bug reports.
451 Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw@equi4.com>
452 Author of MetaKit - a portable, embeddible database with a portable
453 data file format. This software is not GPL'd but the author is kindly
454 allowing us to bundle MetaKit with our code. MetaKit has a liberal
455 X/MIT-style license. Please see the following URL for more info:
456 http://www.equi4.com/metakit
459 WoodSoup Project http://www.woodsoup.org
460 [ FlightGear no longer uses woodsoup services, but we appreciate
461 the support provided to our project during the time they hosted us. ]
462 Provided computing resources and services so that the Flight Gear
463 project could have real home. This includes, web services,
464 ftp services, shell accounts, email lists, dns services, etc.
467 Robert Allan Zeh <raz@cmg.FCNBD.COM>
468 Helped me tremendously in figuring out the Cygnus win32 compiler and
469 how to link with .dll's. With out him the first runable win32
470 version of FG would have been impossible.
477 THIS DOCUMENT WAS INITIALLY WRITTEN BY
479 Curt L. Olson <curt@flightgear.org>
482 THE CONTENTS WERE LASTLY RESEARCHED AND UPDATED MARCH, 8 2000
484 Oliver Delise <delise@mail.isis.de>
487 Updated 2001-12-11 by David Megginson, david@megginson.com