-A very special thanks is due to the following people and groups.
+
Note: as hard as we've tried, it is impossible to perfectly maintain
this file. If you are aware of someone who you think should be
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.
+
+
+Syd Adams:
+ Added clipping to 2d instruments. Added volume control to ATC-chatter.
+ Created and maintain: DHC2, B1900D, Aerostar 700, S76C+ helicopter,
+ Cessna Citation Bravo & CitationX, A6M2 'Zero'. Assisted with Cessna
+ Citation II with Curt and 777-200 with Justin Smithies.
+
+
+Mark Akermann <flightgear@akermann.org>
+ Redone sun code. The sun now consists of three textures with individual
+ colors which are calculated based on the effect of light scattering.
+ This is accomplished by using various environmental data and by
+ calculating the distance the light travels through the atmosphere.
+
+
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
Michele America <nomimarketing@mail.telepac.pt>
Contributed to the HUD code.
+Emmanuel Baranger <>
+ Many, many very nice aircraft models.
+
+Andrei Barbu <andrei@0xab.com>
+ Designed and implemented the current version of the FlightGear website.
+
Michael Basler <pmb@knUUt.de>
Author of the Getting Started guide.
-Jon S. Berndt <jsb@hal-pc.org>
- Working on a complete C++ rewrite/reimplimentation of the core FDM.
- Initially he is using X15 data to test his code, but once things are
- all in place we should be able to simulator arbitrary aircraft.
- Maintains a page dealing with Flight Dynamics at:
- http://www.hal-pc.org/~jsb/flightsim.html
- Special attention to X15 is paid in seperate pages.
+Paul Beardsley <Beardspa@hotmail.com>
+ The 1903 Wright Flyer was inspired by a model contributed by Paul
+ Beardsley. Very little of the original model remains, but without
+ Paul's excellent work we might not have our own 1903 Flyer. Model
+ was reworked and retextured by Jim Wilson.
+
+
+Jon S. Berndt <jon@jsbsim.org>
+ Chief architect of JSBSim, the default flight dynamics model (FDM)
+ for FlightGear. Jon's professional work has involved simulation and
+ prototyping for vehicles ranging from the F-16 to his current work
+ on the space shuttle and future manned launch vehicles. Since 1998
+ Jon has been working on creating JSBSim together with co-author Tony
+ Peden. JSBSim is an object-oriented, multi-platform aerospace
+ vehicle simulator that can be integrated with broader flight
+ simulation programs (since it provides no visual model), or run in a
+ standalone mode for batch runs. For more information, see the JSBSim
+ home page at: http://www.jsbsim.org
Paul Bleisch <pbleisch@acm.org>
Also contributed a first stab at a config file/command line parsing
system.
+Matthias Boerner <>
+ Coorganizer of the FlightGear booth at the annual LinuxTag event in
+ Germany.
+
+Alexis Bory
+ Very nice models, including the F14-B.
Jim Brennan <jj@kingmont.com>
Provided a big chunk of online space to store USA scenery for Flight Gear.
-Bernie Bright <bbright@c031.aone.net.au>
- Many C++ style, usage, and implementation improvements.
+Bernie Bright <bbright@bigpond.net.au>
+ Many C++ style, usage, and implementation improvements.
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.
+ Initiate the fgrun project
+
+Francesco Brisa <>
+ Scenery models and ground networks for Italian airports.
Bernhard H. Buckel <buckel@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Oliver Delise <delise@mail.isis.de>
FAQ Maintainer, Documentation, Public Relations.
- Working on adding some networking / multi-user support.
+ Author of (the now depreciated) networking / multi-user support.
Founder of the FlightGear MultiPilot Project :
http://www.isis.de/members/~odelise/progs/flightgear
+Jean-Francois Doue
+ Vector 2D, 3D, 4D and Matrix 3D and 4D inlined C++ classes. (Based on
+ Graphics Gems IV ed. Paul S. Heckbert)
+ http://www.animats.com/simpleppp/ftp/public_html/topics/developers.html
+
+Torsten Dreyer
+ Contributed a very nice Piper Sceneca, closely modelled after the
+ real thing.
+ Many other nice aircraft, buildings, etc etc.
Dave Eberly <eberly@magic-software.com>
Contributed some sphere interpolation code used by Christian Mayer's
really useful looking code available there.
http://www.magic-software.com
-
-Jean-Francois Doue
- Vector 2D, 3D, 4D and Matrix 3D and 4D inlined C++ classes. (Based on
- Graphics Gems IV ed. Paul S. Heckbert)
- http://www.animats.com/simpleppp/ftp/public_html/topics/developers.html
-
+Martin Eschen <>
+ Helped enourmously toward finishing the full scale traffic demo at EHAM.
Francine Evans <evans@cs.sunysb.edu>
Wrote the @#$@#$@% GPL'd tri-striper we use and "love". :-)
for FS98. They are pretty cool and Oscar was happy to contribute
them to our little project.
+Detlef Faber
+ Many WWII era aircraft.
+
+
+Leidson Campos A. Ferreira <leidson@planetamessenger.org>
+ Rewrote the Jpeg screen httpd streaming (--jpg-httpd option)
+
+Olaf Flebbe
+ Improved the build system for Windows and provided pre-built
+ dependencies.
Bruce Finney <bfinney@gte.net>
MSVC5 compatibility.
+Thomas Förster <>
+ Updates to the AI system, including the Dykstra route finding algorithm,
+ adding a performance class, and many code clean-ups.
+ Co-organizer of the annual LinuxTag booth.
+
+
+Melchior Franz <mfranz@aon.at>
+ Reworked the joystick driver detection code, added high/low support for
+ "hats". Nasal-ified the Saitek Cyborg Gold 3D (USB) joystick which now
+ forms the basis of a lot of programmable joysticks.
+ Ruthlessly hunted down memory leaks in FlightGear, SimGear, and JSBSim.
+ Maintains the only fully working helicopter model in FlightGear (Bolkow 105).
+ Made the GUI code fully XML configurable and added support for themes,
+ reworked property browser, route manager and several other dialogs.
+ Wrote Dynamic Cockpit View, Fly-By view and lots of other Nasal code.
+ Implemented Nasal "listeners".
+
Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler <zlib@gzip.org>
Authors of the zlib library. Used for on-the-fly compression and
Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
Changes and updates for compiling on FreeBSD
+Ralf Gerlich <>
+ Technical Genius behind the Custom Scenery Project.
+ Current maintainer of TaxiDraw
+
+Anders Gidenstam <>
+ Support for Lighter than Air vehicles.
+ Author of the ZeppelinNT.
Neetha Girish <neethagirish@usa.net>
Contributed the xml configurable HUD changes.
Habibie <habibie@MailandNews.com>
RedHat package building changes for SimGear.
+Csaba Halász <>
+ Many bugfixes and code checking.
+
+Ampere Hardraade <>
+ Many detailed 3D models of aircraft, including the MD11, and several
+ Airbuses.
+
+Brett Harrison <>
+ Ground networks for various airports.
+ Most of the liveries for the new C172p by HHS.
+ AI Repaints for several 737's and C172's
+
+Dave Haskell <dave@haskell.demon.co.uk>
+ Original exterior textures for the Cessna 310 U-3A model. Only a few
+ minor modifications were made.
+
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.
+ Did a lot of code improvements and bug-hunting.
+ Creator of most of the ground textures.
+ Maintainer of the F-15, F-16, F-104, T-37, PC-7, Fokker 50 and 100 models.
+ Keeps the Irix port current.
+ Localization support.
+
+
Charlie Hotchkiss <clhotch@pacbell.net>
Worked on improving and enhancing the HUD code.
Lots of code style tips and code tweaks ...
the flight model. Bruce has patiently answered my many, many questions.
http://dcb.larc.nasa.gov/www/DCBStaff/ebj/ebj.html
+Ron Jensen
+ Contributed to the piston engine code in JSBSim.
+
+
+Maik Justus <fg@mjustus.de>
+ Developed YASim's helicopter/rotor logic.
+ Implemented aerotowing, water plane and anchor support for YASim, and
+ made its gear aware of the surface material.
+ Wrote the Bo105 helicopter FDM configuration file.
+
+
+Ove Kaaven
+ Debian packaging of SimGear/FlightGear
+
Richard Kaszeta <bofh@me.umn.edu>
Contributed screen buffer to ppm screen shot routine.
Rich's Homepage: http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
+Vassilii Khachaturov <vassilii@tarunz.org>
+ Support of navaids as autopilot waypoints.
+ Switching the tower view to a different tower at any time.
+ Various code, GUI, and documentation fixes and updates.
+
+
Tom Knienieder <tom@knienieder.com>
Ported Steve's Audio library first to OpenBSD and IRIX and
after that also to Win32
Redid the Makefile system so it is simpler and more robust.
+Chris Lampard <c.lampard@ntlworld.com>
+ Original exterior geometry for the Cessna 310 U-3A model. Several
+ modifications made but most of the exterior is as is converted from
+ Chris's original. The interior cockpit was added by Jim Wilson.
+
+
David Luff <david.luff@nottingham.ac.uk>
Contributed heavily to the IO360 piston engine model.
+ Created the ATC intelligent traffic subsystem.
+ Creator of TaxiDraw, a program to modify the taxiway layout
+ for FlightGear.
+
+
+Lewis Magruder <blackhawk96@hotmail.com>
+ Original A-4 Blue Angels exterior model and textures. Lewis's work
+ is pretty much as converted from the original. The interior cockpit
+ was added by Jim Wilson.
Christian Mayer <flightgear@christianmayer.de>
Updates to README.running.
Working on getting fgfs and ssg to work without textures.
Also added the new 2D panel and the save/load support.
+ Reorganization of the GUI to make it XML configurable.
Property manager
- Joystick support
+ Generalized input module
+ 3D model animation module
+ initial take of sound-effects module
+ Random ground cover objects
+ Vacuum and pitot systems.
Eric Mitchell <mitchell@mars.ark.com>
all original creations.
+Cameron Moore <cameron@unbeatenpath.net>
+ Reigning list admin.
+ Provided man pages.
+ Self-proclaimed code janitor.
+ Has been maintaining FAQ for some years.
+
+
+Tim Moore <>
+ Many innovations to the OpenSceneGraph based graphics system.
+ Counseling of other developers toward learning OSG
+ Maintaing a GIT repository containing a mirror of FlightGear's
+ source code, speficially for bugfix releases.
+
+
Anders Morken <amrken@online.no>
Maintained the European mirror of the FG web pages.
Unfortunately this mirror has been taken down due to reglementation
Author of GNU dbm. gdbm is a set of database routines that use
extendible hashing and works similar to the standard UNIX dbm routines.
+Tatsuhiro Nishioka
+ Maintainer of the Mac port.
+ Contributed some very nice Japanese aircraft models.
Alexei Novikov <anovikov@heron.itep.ru>
Created European Scenery
Contributed a first draft of a scenery creation howto.
-Curt Olson <curt@flightgear.org>
+Curt Olson <http://www.flightgear.org/~curt>
Curt is responsible for overall project and source code management.
He has his hands in many of the areas, but is primarily responsible
for the scenery subsystem, as well as much of the infrastructure in
the sim.
+ Handles most parts of the regular scenery rebuild, including lots of
+ improvements of the vertex calculation code.
+ Added the nw PID based, configurable autopilot code.
+ Added the Electrical system.
+ Added Runway lighting.
Brian Paul
Contributions on the flight model front, including a LaRCsim based
Cessna 172. JSBsim: the initial conditions code, a more complete
standard atmosphere model, and other bugfixes/additions.
- His Flight Dynamics page can be found at:
- http://www.nwlink.com/~apeden
Robin Peel <robin@cpwd.com>
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.
+Pigeon <>
+ Developed the multiplayer network infrastructure.
Friedemann Reinhard <mpt218@faupt212.physik.uni-erlangen.de>
Contributed beginnings of a textured instrument panel.
+Frederic Bouvier <fredfgfs01@free.fr>
+ Keeps FlightGear MSVC compatible.
+ Did a number of code changes to improve the animation code.
+ Added a number of animations that improves the visual system quite a lot.
+ Did a nice job populating the San Francisco bay area by adding a lot
+ of static scenery.
+ Builds the FlightGear binary windows distributions.
+ Maintainer of fgrun, the defacto launcher on windows and many other platforms.
+ Author of fgsd, a standalone scenery designer.
+ Provides regular binary snapshots of flightgear and it's related projects for
+ the windows community.
+
+
+
Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@games.no>
Incorporated the Gnu automake/autoconf system (with libtool).
This should streamline and standardize the build process for all
William Riley <riley@technologist.com>
Contributed code to add "brakes".
Patch to support a first joystick with more than two axes.
-
-
+ World scenery based on vmap0 data.
+
+Gijs de Rooy <>
+ Contributed some very nice building models, including a very
+ detailed layout of the Amsterdam airport terminals, and many
+ downtown buildings.
+ Redid the Boeing 747-400 3D model
+ Very active first aid responder on the official Flightgear
+ forum.
+
+Gerard Robin <>
+ Many nice Aircraft models
+
+Andy Ross <andy@plausible.org>
+ Contributed a new configurable FDM, "YASim", based on geometry
+ information rather than aerodynamic coefficients.
+ Added support for placing 2D panel objects in 3D space.
+ Modified the HUD code to make it more accurate and added 3D support.
+ Modified the UI code to allow a far more flexible grouping system.
+ Added the Nasal scripting language and added FlightGear integration.
+
+Brian Schack <>
+ Current maintainer of Atlas, the moving map program for FlightGear
+
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
to answer astro-related questions whenever one needs to.
http://welcome.to/pausch
+Christian Schmitt <>
+ Detailed Frankfurt airport buildings.
+ Contributions to the custom scenery project.
Chris Schoeneman <crs@millpond.engr.sgi.com>
Contributed some 3d sound playing code for Irix, Win32, and Linux
Contributed various textures and engine modelling.
http://www.zedley.com/Philip/index.htm
+Heiko Schulz <>
+ Contributed AI traffic for EDDF
+ EDDF Night lights
+ ground networks
+
Jonathan R Shewchuk <Jonathan_R_Shewchuk@ux4.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
Author of the Triangle program. Triangle is used to calculate the
Project Bonanza - http://members.xoom.com/ConceptSim/index.html
+Martin Spott <Martin.Spott@uni-duisburg.de>
+ Contributed to the installation / user guide.
+ Coorganizer of the FlightGear booth at the annual LinuxTag event in
+ Germany.
+ Manages the "World Scenery" releases.
+
+Jon Stockill <>
+ Maintainer of the object database.
+
+Martin Dressler <dr@musicabona.cz>
+ Created some outstanding panel instrumentation textures
+ for use in full-screen mode.
+
+
U.S. Geological Survey
Provided geographic data used by this project
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html
Planets are correctly positioned and have proper magnitude.
Help with time functions, gui, and other misc stuff.
2D Cloud layers (nifty).
- http://people.a2000.nl/dtals
+ Added the AirTraffic module for scheduled AI airliners and other aircraft.
+ Full scale AI traffic demo for EHAM.
+ Current FlightGear release manager.
+
+Gabor Toth <>
+ Contributed some Livery repaints for AI Aircraft
+ Contributed many ideas leading towards the Traffic Manager II format
+ Runs FGTracker, an online flight tracking service for FlightGear
+James Turner <>
+ Many code cleanups of the internal structure of the airport database,
+ runway parsing, route management.
+ Is currently working on adding flightmanagement support.
UIUC - Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
Contributed modifications to LaRCsim to allow loading of aircraft
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
+ Did the build instructions for OpenAL (and SDL) for Cygwin.
Roland Voegtli <voegtli@sanw.unibe.ch>
Provides MacOS-specific info in the docs.
+David Culp <davidculp2@attbi.com>
+ Changed the layout of the conbtrolls section and added a great number
+ of extra controls which will prove to be usefull no and for the future.
+ Contributed a number of aircraft configuration files, including a T-38 and
+ Boeing 737.
+ Implemented the AIModels subsystem (originally based on the ATC traffic code)
+ and extended it to support ships, aircraft, ballistic objects, thunder-storms,
+ and thermals.
+ Added a lot of updated to JSBSIm, esp. for the turbine section.
+
+
Ed Williams <Ed_Williams@compuserve.com>
Contributed magnetic variation code (impliments Nima WMM 2000)
We've also borrowed from Ed's wonderful aviation formulary at various
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.
+ Contributed the the pui property browser.
+ Contributed to the autopilot.
+ Created several excellent 3D aircraft models, including the p-51,
+ Wright Flyer and the Boeing 747.
+
+
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
X/MIT-style license. Please see the following URL for more info:
http://www.equi4.com/metakit
+Holger Wirtz <>
+Author of FGCom, a voice communication program intented for FlightGear
+multiplayer/ATC.
+
+John Wojnaroski <castle@mminternet.com>
+ Open Glass Cockpit project
+ 3d clouds
+
+Marcus Zojer <>
+ Contributed a B1B aircraft model.
+
+
+Lee Elliot <leee@spatial.freeserve.co.uk>
+ Author of the YF-23, A-10, Ann225, B-52 and TSR-2 models.
+ Did a lot of suggestions for better aircraft modelling, some of which
+ resulted in code changes to accomplish them.
+
+
+Innis Cunningham <innisc@hotmail.com>
+ Modelled the 737 and contributed to the T38.
+
+
+Vivian Meazza <vivian.meazza@lineone.net>
+ Added a number of excellent aircraft models including the Hawker Hunter
+ and Seahawk.
+ Provided realistic wind, gravity and drag calculations for AIBallistic models,
+ as well as terrain intersections (impacts) of submodels.
+ Added the Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System and AI code for AICarrier and
+ AIShip, and implemented the TACAN navigation instrument
+
+
+David Culp <davidculp2@comcast.net>
+ Added the AI model and scenario code which allows non interactive models
+ (like aircraft, ships, ballistic models, storms and thermals) to move
+ around the scenery in a predefined way. Every model can have it's own
+ special characteristics. The thermal model for instance is a non-visible
+ model that creates an updraft around it's center.
+
+
+Mathias Fröhlich <Mathias.Froehlich@gmx.net>
+ Implemented the groundcache code which made it possible for aircraft
+ to follow the ground precisely and, as a result, made it possible to
+ land on aircraft carriers.
+ Modified YASim, JSBSim and LaRCsim to support the groundcache code.
+ Reorganized the code to eliminate the viewer jitter for close by objects.
+
+
+Harald Johnsen <hjohnsen@evc.net>
+ Added a new 3D cloud implementation which also works on big-endian machines.
+ This code allows for clouds of any types and any shapes (and even deformation
+ while moving).
+ Implemented volumetric shadowing.
+
+
+Roy Vegard Ovesen <rvovesen@tiscali.no>
+ Implemented the KAP140 autopilot.
+ Added a generic, XML configurable, autopilot framework.
+ Added an Altitude encoder.
+ Added a transponder.
+ Made the instruments code much more configurable, it is now possible to only
+ include instruments that are actually present.
+ Added several high level, configurable filter implementations for use by
+ autopilot designers.
+
+
+Stuart Buchanan <stuart_d_buchanan@yahoo.co.uk>
+ Substantial additions to the Getting Started Manual
+ Enhancements to the Cessna-310 3d model.
+ Added a generic yoke model, a generic throttle quadrant model and a
+ generic pedal set model.
+ OSG based three 3D clouds.
+ Forum moderator.
+
+
+Stefan Seifert <nine@detonation.org>
+ Added the save-on-exit option to save the user preferences at program exit.
+
+
+Space Imaging, Inc http://www.spaceimaging.com/
+ Space Imaging has allowed us to use the images in their archive for
+ commercial and non-commercial use, provided the original image can't be
+ extracted from the textures.
+ Some (if not all) of the best textures in use by FlightGear wouldn't be
+ possible without the satellite images provided by them.
+
+
+Airservices Australia
+ Duncan McCreanor and Diarmuid Tyson created a multiplayer engine for
+ FlightGear when putting together a demonstration to show the possibilities
+ of using Flightgear as the basis for an Air Traffic
+
+
+SkyscraperPage.com http://skyscraperpage.com
+ SkyscraperPage.com has allowed us to use their building diagrams to
+ make textures and 3d models of their buildings.
+
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.
THIS DOCUMENT WAS INITIALLY WRITTEN BY
-Curt L. Olson <curt@flightgear.org>
+Curt L. Olson <http://www.flightgear.org/~curt>
THE CONTENTS WERE LASTLY RESEARCHED AND UPDATED MARCH, 8 2000
Oliver Delise <delise@mail.isis.de>
+
+
+Updated 2001-12-11 by David Megginson, david@megginson.com
+Updated 2003-04-17,
+Updated 2004-06-01,
+Updated 2005-04-02 by Erik Hofman, erik@ehofman.com
+Updated 2009-02-02 by Durk Talsma
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