Updated Melchior's entry with other stuff he's done.

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@@ -7,6 +7,11 @@ possible only by the help and hard work of others.  I want to properly
 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
@@ -124,6 +129,13 @@ 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.
@@ -158,6 +170,12 @@ Mike Hill <mikehill@flightsim.com>
   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 ...
@@ -213,7 +231,9 @@ David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
   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>
@@ -221,6 +241,12 @@ Eric Mitchell <mitchell@mars.ark.com>
   all original creations.
 
 
+Cameron Moore <cameron@unbeatenpath.net>
+  Reigning list admin.
+  Provided man pages.
+  Self-proclaimed code janitor.
+
+
 Anders Morken <amrken@online.no>
   Maintained the European mirror of the FG web pages.
   Unfortunately this mirror has been taken down due to reglementation
@@ -254,6 +280,11 @@ Curt Olson <curt@flightgear.org>
   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 
@@ -267,7 +298,7 @@ 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.
 
@@ -288,6 +319,11 @@ William Riley <riley@technologist.com>
   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 
@@ -323,6 +359,10 @@ Michael Smith <msmith99@flash.net>
   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
@@ -380,6 +420,9 @@ Norman Vine <nhv@yahoo.com>
   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>
@@ -407,6 +450,11 @@ Ed Williams <Ed_Williams@compuserve.com>
   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
@@ -416,6 +464,8 @@ Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw@equi4.com>
 
 
 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.
@@ -439,3 +489,6 @@ Curt L. Olson  <curt@flightgear.org>
 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