credit everyone who has contributed to this project.
+A1 Free Sounds <techie@mail.ev1.net> http://www.a1freesoundeffects.com
+ Granted permission for the flightgear project to use some of the
+ sound effects from their site.
+
+
Raul Alonzo <amil@las.es>
Mr. Alonzo is the author of Ssystem and provided his kind permission
for using the moon texture. I also used parts of his code as a template
STL portability, tons o' stuff. :-)
Currently trying to get a BeOS port together but life keeps getting
in the way!
+ Threading support and threaded tile pager.
Bernhard H. Buckel <buckel@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de>
John Check <j4strngs@rockfish.net>
- Cloud textures
+ Maintains the base package repository
+ Joystick howto
+ Panel howto
+ New instrument panel configurations
+
+
+Dave Cornish <dmc@halcyon.com>
+ Created our new, super cool, runway textures.
+ Created some of our cloud textures.
Oliver Delise <delise@mail.isis.de>
MSVC5 compatibility.
+Melchior Franz <a8603365@unet.univie.ac.at>
+ Made that joystick high/low support for joystick hats.
+ Created the led.txf font.
+ Made some improvements of the telnet and the http interface.
+ Ruthlessly hunted down memory leaks in FlightGear, SimGear, and JSBSim.
+
+
Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler <zlib@gzip.org>
Authors of the zlib library. Used for on-the-fly compression and
decompression routines.
Changes and updates for compiling on FreeBSD
+Neetha Girish <neethagirish@usa.net>
+ Contributed the xml configurable HUD changes.
+
+
Jeff Goeke-Smith <jgoeke@voyager.net>
Contributed our first autopilot. (Heading Hold)
Better autoconf check for external timezone/daylight variables in
RedHat package building changes for SimGear.
+Mike Hill <mikehill@flightsim.com>
+ Contributed 3d aircraft models to our project.
+ http://www.flightsimnetwork.com/mikehill/home.htm
+
+
+Erik Hofman <erik@ehofman.com>
+ Major overhaul and parameterization of the sound module, to allow
+ aircraft-specific sound configuration at runtime.
+ Irix port.
+
+
Charlie Hotchkiss <clhotch@pacbell.net>
Worked on improving and enhancing the HUD code.
Lots of code style tips and code tweaks ...
Redid the Makefile system so it is simpler and more robust.
+David Luff <david.luff@nottingham.ac.uk>
+ Contributed heavily to the IO360 piston engine model.
+
+
Christian Mayer <flightgear@christianmayer.de>
Working on a multi-lingual conversion tools for fgfs
as a demonstration of technology ;-)
Working on getting fgfs and ssg to work without textures.
Also added the new 2D panel and the save/load support.
Property manager
- Joystick support
+ Generalized input module
+ 3D model animation module
+ initial take of sound-effects module
Eric Mitchell <mitchell@mars.ark.com>
all original creations.
+Cameron Moore <cameron@unbeatenpath.net>
+ Reigning list admin.
+ Provided man pages.
+ Self-proclaimed code janitor.
+ FAQ maintainer.
+
+
Anders Morken <amrken@online.no>
Maintained the European mirror of the FG web pages.
Unfortunately this mirror has been taken down due to reglementation
the sim.
+Brian Paul
+ His TR Library: http://www.mesa3d.org/brianp/TR.html
+ And also Mesa of course: http://www.mesa3d.org
+
+
Tony Peden <apeden@earthlink.net>
Contributions on the flight model front, including a LaRCsim based
Cessna 172. JSBsim: the initial conditions code, a more complete
aid database for the Flight Gear project as well as for X-Plane.
-Alex Perry <arp11@pacbell.net>
+Alex Perry <alex.perry@ieee.org>
Contributed code to more accurately model VSI, DG, Altitude.
Contributed to the Install and Getting Started manual.
Patch to support a first joystick with more than two axes.
+Andy Ross <andy@plausible.org>
+ Contributed a new configurable FDM, "YASim", based on geometry
+ information rather than aerodynamic coefficients.
+
+
Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se>
Mr. Schlyter provided Durk Talsma with all the information
he needed to write the astro code. Mr. S. is also willing
Project Bonanza - http://members.xoom.com/ConceptSim/index.html
+Martin Spott <Martin.Spott@uni-duisburg.de>
+ Contributed to the installation / user guide.
+
+
U.S. Geological Survey
Provided geographic data used by this project
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html
Contributed a great circle route autopilot mode based on wgs84 routines.
Many other GUI, HUD, and autopilot contributions.
Contributed a patch to allow mouse input to control view direction.
+ Ultra hires tiled screen dumps.
+ Contributed the initial 'goto airport' and 'reset' functions
+ Contributed the initial http image server code
Roland Voegtli <voegtli@sanw.unibe.ch>
http://www.best.com/~williams/index.html
+Jim Wilson <jimw@kelcomaine.com>
+ Wrote a major overhaul of the viewer code to make it more flexible
+ and modular. Contributed many small fixes and bug reports.
+
+
Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw@equi4.com>
Author of MetaKit - a portable, embeddible database with a portable
data file format. This software is not GPL'd but the author is kindly
WoodSoup Project http://www.woodsoup.org
+ [ FlightGear no longer uses woodsoup services, but we appreciate
+ the support provided to our project during the time they hosted us. ]
Provided computing resources and services so that the Flight Gear
project could have real home. This includes, web services,
ftp services, shell accounts, email lists, dns services, etc.
THE CONTENTS WERE LASTLY RESEARCHED AND UPDATED MARCH, 8 2000
Oliver Delise <delise@mail.isis.de>
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+
+Updated 2001-12-11 by David Megginson, david@megginson.com