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 Melchior Franz <a8603365@unet.univie.ac.at>
133 Ruthlessly hunted down memory leaks in FlightGear, SimGear, and JSBSim.
136 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler <zlib@gzip.org>
137 Authors of the zlib library. Used for on-the-fly compression and
138 decompression routines.
139 http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
142 Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
143 Changes and updates for compiling on FreeBSD
146 Neetha Girish <neethagirish@usa.net>
147 Contributed the xml configurable HUD changes.
150 Jeff Goeke-Smith <jgoeke@voyager.net>
151 Contributed our first autopilot. (Heading Hold)
152 Better autoconf check for external timezone/daylight variables in
156 Michael I. Gold <gold@puck.asd.sgi.com>
157 Patiently answered my endless "newbie" OpenGL questions.
158 His effort alone has made me a great SGI fan.
161 Habibie <habibie@MailandNews.com>
162 RedHat package building changes for SimGear.
165 Mike Hill <mikehill@flightsim.com>
166 Contributed 3d aircraft models to our project.
167 http://www.flightsimnetwork.com/mikehill/home.htm
170 Erik Hofman <erik@ehofman.com>
171 Major overhaul and parameterization of the sound module, to allow
172 aircraft-specific sound configuration at runtime.
176 Charlie Hotchkiss <clhotch@pacbell.net>
177 Worked on improving and enhancing the HUD code.
178 Lots of code style tips and code tweaks ...
181 Bruce Jackson of NASA <e.b.jackson@larc.nasa.gov>
182 Developed the LaRCsim code under funding by NASA which we use to provide
183 the flight model. Bruce has patiently answered my many, many questions.
184 http://dcb.larc.nasa.gov/www/DCBStaff/ebj/ebj.html
187 Richard Kaszeta <bofh@me.umn.edu>
188 Contributed screen buffer to ppm screen shot routine.
189 Rich has also helped in the early development of the Flight Gear "altitude
190 hold autopilot module" by teaching Curt Olson the basics of Control Theory
191 and helping him code and debug early versions. Curt's "Boss" Bob Hain
192 also contributed <bob@me.umn.edu>. Further details available at:
193 http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/fgfs/Docs/Autopilot/AltitudeHold/AltitudeHold.html
194 Rich's Homepage: http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
197 Tom Knienieder <tom@knienieder.com>
198 Ported Steve's Audio library first to OpenBSD and IRIX and
199 after that also to Win32
202 Reto Koradi <kor@mol.biol.ethz.ch>
203 Helped me get on track with setting up fog effects.
204 http://www.mol.biol.ethz.ch/wuthrich/people/kor
207 Bob Kuehne <rpk@who.net>
208 Redid the Makefile system so it is simpler and more robust.
211 David Luff <david.luff@nottingham.ac.uk>
212 Contributed heavily to the IO360 piston engine model.
215 Christian Mayer <flightgear@christianmayer.de>
216 Working on a multi-lingual conversion tools for fgfs
217 as a demonstration of technology ;-)
218 Contributed code to read msfs formated texture files.
219 Working on a completely new weather subsystem.
220 Working on a balloon simulator.
223 David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
224 Contributed a patch to allow mouse input to control the yoke.
225 Contributed financially towards hard drive space for use by the
227 Updates to README.running.
228 Working on getting fgfs and ssg to work without textures.
229 Also added the new 2D panel and the save/load support.
231 Generalized input module
232 3D model animation module
233 initial take of sound-effects module
236 Eric Mitchell <mitchell@mars.ark.com>
237 Contributed some topnotch scenery textures. His textures were
238 all original creations.
241 Cameron Moore <cameron@unbeatenpath.net>
244 Self-proclaimed code janitor.
247 Anders Morken <amrken@online.no>
248 Maintained the European mirror of the FG web pages.
249 Unfortunately this mirror has been taken down due to reglementation
250 changes including an enforcement to 10 MB space per subscriber limit
251 which was way too small for the evergrowing FGFS Project's Files.
252 He'd be happy to maintain a new one if he could find a place to put it,
253 so if you have an idea, contact him!
256 Alan Murta <amurta@cs.man.ac.uk>
257 http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/
258 Created the Generic Polygon Clipping library
261 Phil Nelson <phil@cs.wwu.edu>
262 Author of GNU dbm. gdbm is a set of database routines that use
263 extendible hashing and works similar to the standard UNIX dbm routines.
266 Alexei Novikov <anovikov@heron.itep.ru>
267 Created European Scenery
268 Contributed a script to turn fgfs scenery into beautifully rendered
270 Contributed a first draft of a scenery creation howto.
273 Curt Olson <curt@flightgear.org>
274 Curt is responsible for overall project and source code management.
275 He has his hands in many of the areas, but is primarily responsible
276 for the scenery subsystem, as well as much of the infrastructure in
281 His TR Library: http://www.mesa3d.org/brianp/TR.html
282 And also Mesa of course: http://www.mesa3d.org
285 Tony Peden <apeden@earthlink.net>
286 Contributions on the flight model front, including a LaRCsim based
287 Cessna 172. JSBsim: the initial conditions code, a more complete
288 standard atmosphere model, and other bugfixes/additions.
289 His Flight Dynamics page can be found at:
290 http://www.nwlink.com/~apeden
293 Robin Peel <robin@cpwd.com>
294 Maintains the ever growing worldwide airport, runway, and navigation
295 aid database for the Flight Gear project as well as for X-Plane.
298 Alex Perry <alex.perry@ieee.org>
299 Contributed code to more accurately model VSI, DG, Altitude.
300 Contributed to the Install and Getting Started manual.
303 Friedemann Reinhard <mpt218@faupt212.physik.uni-erlangen.de>
304 Contributed beginnings of a textured instrument panel.
307 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@games.no>
308 Incorporated the Gnu automake/autoconf system (with libtool).
309 This should streamline and standardize the build process for all
310 Unix-like platforms. It should have little effect on IDE type
311 environments since the don't use the Unix make system.
314 William Riley <riley@technologist.com>
315 Contributed code to add "brakes".
316 Patch to support a first joystick with more than two axes.
319 Andy Ross <andy@plausible.org>
320 Contributed a new configurable FDM, "YASim", based on geometry
321 information rather than aerodynamic coefficients.
324 Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se>
325 Mr. Schlyter provided Durk Talsma with all the information
326 he needed to write the astro code. Mr. S. is also willing
327 to answer astro-related questions whenever one needs to.
328 http://welcome.to/pausch
331 Chris Schoeneman <crs@millpond.engr.sgi.com>
332 Contributed some 3d sound playing code for Irix, Win32, and Linux
333 It is unclear if this code will be used directly, but it certainly
334 will have an influence on the development of our own audio library.
337 Phil Schubert <philip@zedley.com>
338 Contributed various textures and engine modelling.
339 http://www.zedley.com/Philip/index.htm
342 Jonathan R Shewchuk <Jonathan_R_Shewchuk@ux4.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
343 Author of the Triangle program. Triangle is used to calculate the
344 Delauney triangulation of our irregular terrain.
347 Gordan Sikic <gsikic@public.srce.hr>
348 Contributed a cherokee flight model for LaRCsim.
349 Currently is not working and needs to be debugged.
350 Use configure --with-flight-model=cherokee
351 to build the cherokee instead of the navion.
354 Michael Smith <msmith99@flash.net>
355 Contributed cockpit graphics, 3d models, logos, and other images.
356 Project Bonanza - http://members.xoom.com/ConceptSim/index.html
359 Martin Spott <Martin.Spott@uni-duisburg.de>
360 Contributed to the installation / user guide.
363 U.S. Geological Survey
364 Provided geographic data used by this project
365 http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html
368 Durk Talsma <d.talsma@chello.nl>
369 Accurate Sun, Moon, and Planets.
370 Sun changes color based on position in sky.
371 Moon has correct phase and blends well into the sky.
372 Planets are correctly positioned and have proper magnitude.
373 Help with time functions, gui, and other misc stuff.
374 2D Cloud layers (nifty).
375 http://people.a2000.nl/dtals
378 UIUC - Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
379 Contributed modifications to LaRCsim to allow loading of aircraft
380 parameters from a file. These modifications were made as part of an
381 icing research project.
383 Did the coding and made it all work:
384 Jeff Scott <jscott@students.uiuc.edu>
385 Bipin Sehgal <bsehgal@uiuc.edu>
386 Michael Selig <m-selig@uiuc.edu>
388 Helped support the effort
389 Jay Thomas <jthomas2@uiuc.edu>
390 Eunice Lee <ey-lee@students.uiuc.edu>
391 Elizabeth Rendon <mdfhoyos@md.impsat.net.co>
392 Sudhi Uppuluri <suppulur@students.uiuc.edu>
395 Mark Vallevand <Mark.Vallevand@UNISYS.com>
396 Contributed some METAR parsing code.
397 Contributed some win32 screen printing routines.
400 Gary R. Van Sickle <tiberius@braemarinc.com>
401 Contributed some initial GameGLUT support and other fixes.
402 Has done some interesting preliminary work on a binary file format
403 http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/ORKiD/fgfs.htm
405 Has set up a 'Cygwin Tips' site that has been very helpful to many
406 people in getting a Cygwin Unix-on-Windows build environment set up
407 so they can build FG effectively.
408 http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/ORKiD/cygwin.htm
411 Norman Vine <nhv@yahoo.com>
412 Provided more than uncountable URL's to the "FlightGear Community".
413 Many performance optimizations throughout the code.
414 Many contributions and much advice for the scenery generation section.
415 Lots of windoze related contributions.
416 Contributed wgs84 distance and course routines.
417 Contributed a great circle route autopilot mode based on wgs84 routines.
418 Many other GUI, HUD, and autopilot contributions.
419 Contributed a patch to allow mouse input to control view direction.
420 Ultra hires tiled screen dumps.
421 Contributed the initial 'goto airport' and 'reset' functions
422 Contributed the initial http image server code
425 Roland Voegtli <voegtli@sanw.unibe.ch>
426 Great photorealistic textures.
427 Founder of European Scenery Project for X-Plane
428 http://www.g-point.com/xpcity/esp/
431 Carmelo Volpe <carmelo.volpe@mednut.ki.se>
432 Contributed some work to porting Flight Gear to the Metro Works
433 development environment (PC/Mac)
436 Darrell Walisser <dwaliss1@purdue.edu>
437 Contributed a large number of MacOS changes and has somehow managed
438 to get a pile of code written by a bunch of people who've never seen
439 a Mac to compile and run on said platform.
440 Provides MacOS-specific info in the docs.
443 Ed Williams <Ed_Williams@compuserve.com>
444 Contributed magnetic variation code (impliments Nima WMM 2000)
445 We've also borrowed from Ed's wonderful aviation formulary at various
447 http://www.best.com/~williams/index.html
450 Jim Wilson <jimw@kelcomaine.com>
451 Wrote a major overhaul of the viewer code to make it more flexible
452 and modular. Contributed many small fixes and bug reports.
455 Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw@equi4.com>
456 Author of MetaKit - a portable, embeddible database with a portable
457 data file format. This software is not GPL'd but the author is kindly
458 allowing us to bundle MetaKit with our code. MetaKit has a liberal
459 X/MIT-style license. Please see the following URL for more info:
460 http://www.equi4.com/metakit
463 WoodSoup Project http://www.woodsoup.org
464 [ FlightGear no longer uses woodsoup services, but we appreciate
465 the support provided to our project during the time they hosted us. ]
466 Provided computing resources and services so that the Flight Gear
467 project could have real home. This includes, web services,
468 ftp services, shell accounts, email lists, dns services, etc.
471 Robert Allan Zeh <raz@cmg.FCNBD.COM>
472 Helped me tremendously in figuring out the Cygnus win32 compiler and
473 how to link with .dll's. With out him the first runable win32
474 version of FG would have been impossible.
481 THIS DOCUMENT WAS INITIALLY WRITTEN BY
483 Curt L. Olson <curt@flightgear.org>
486 THE CONTENTS WERE LASTLY RESEARCHED AND UPDATED MARCH, 8 2000
488 Oliver Delise <delise@mail.isis.de>
491 Updated 2001-12-11 by David Megginson, david@megginson.com