a good hard shove.) :-)
+Ralph Carmichael <ralph@pdas.com>
+ Thanks to Ralph for his support of the FlightGear project. At
+ Public Domain Aeronautical Software you will find the PDAS CD-ROM for sale,
+ packed with great programs of use to aeronautical engineers. At this web
+ site there are also some sample downloads to show what is on the CD.
+ http://www.pdas.com
+
+
Didier Chauveau <chauveau@math.univ-mlv.fr>
Provided some initial code to parse the 30 arcsec DEM files found at:
http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/gtopo30/gtopo30.html
them to our little project.
+Bruce Finney <bfinney@gte.net>
+ MSVC5 compatibility.
+
+
Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler <zlib@gzip.org>
Authors of the zlib library. Used for on-the-fly compression and
decompression routines.
His effort alone has made me a great SGI fan.
+Habibie <habibie@MailandNews.com>
+ RedHat package building changes for SimGear.
+
+
Charlie Hotchkiss <clhotch@pacbell.net>
Worked on improving and enhancing the HUD code.
Lots of code style tips and code tweaks ...
David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
- Contributed a patch to allow mouse input to control view direction.
Contributed a patch to allow mouse input to control the yoke.
Contributed financially towards hard drive space for use by the
flight gear project.
Created the Generic Polygon Clipping library
+Phil Nelson <phil@cs.wwu.edu>
+ Author of GNU dbm. gdbm is a set of database routines that use
+ extendible hashing and works similar to the standard UNIX dbm routines.
+
+
Alexei Novikov <anovikov@heron.itep.ru>
Created European Scenery
Contributed a script to turn fgfs scenery into beautifully rendered
Alex Perry <arp11@pacbell.net>
Contributed code to more accurately model VSI, DG, Altitude.
- I have a feeling there's been a few other things as well, but
- my memory is failing me.
+ Contributed to the Install and Getting Started manual.
Friedemann Reinhard <mpt218@faupt212.physik.uni-erlangen.de>
Contributed wgs84 distance and course routines.
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.
Roland Voegtli <voegtli@sanw.unibe.ch>
Provides MacOS-specific info in the docs.
+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
+ times as well.
+ http://www.best.com/~williams/index.html
+
+
+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
+ allowing us to bundle MetaKit with our code. MetaKit has a liberal
+ X/MIT-style license. Please see the following URL for more info:
+ http://www.equi4.com/metakit
+
+
WoodSoup Project http://www.woodsoup.org
Provided computing resources and services so that the Flight Gear
project could have real home. This includes, web services,