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
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.
Bernhard H. Buckel <buckel@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de>
Ralph Carmichael <ralph@pdas.com>
-Thanks to Ralph for his support of the FlightGear project. At
+ 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://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/gtopo30/gtopo30.html
+John Check <j4strngs@rockfish.net>
+ 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>
FAQ Maintainer, Documentation, Public Relations.
Working on adding some networking / multi-user support.
them to our little project.
+Bruce Finney <bfinney@gte.net>
+ 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
His effort alone has made me a great SGI fan.
+Habibie <habibie@MailandNews.com>
+ 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.
+ Localization support.
+
+
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 ;-)
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.
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.
+ Property manager
+ 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.
+ 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
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
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.
+ Electrical system.
+ Runway lighting.
+
+
+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>
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.
- 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>
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.
+
+
+Andy Ross <andy@plausible.org>
+ Contributed a new configurable FDM, "YASim", based on geometry
+ information rather than aerodynamic coefficients.
Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se>
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 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.
+ 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>
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
+
+
+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.
+
+
+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
+
+
+John Wojnaroski <castle@mminternet.com>
+ Open Glass Cockpit project
+ 3d clouds
+
+
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>
+
+
+Updated 2001-12-11 by David Megginson, david@megginson.com
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