Contributed to the HUD code.
+Andrei Barbu "T"Eval" teval@myrealbox.com
+ Designed and implemented the current version of the FlightGear website.
+
+
Michael Basler <pmb@knUUt.de>
Author of the Getting Started guide.
Paul Beardsley <Beardspa@hotmail.com>
- The 1903 Flyer was inspired by a model contributed by Paul
+ 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.
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
Melchior Franz <a8603365@unet.univie.ac.at>
Made that joystick high/low support for joystick hats.
+ Nasal-ified the Saitek Cyborg Gold 3D (USB) joystick which now forms
+ the basis of a lot of programmable joysticks.
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.
+ Maintains the only fully working helicopter model in FlightGear (Bolkow 105).
Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler <zlib@gzip.org>
Erik Hofman <erik@ehofman.com>
Major overhaul and parameterization of the sound module, to allow
aircraft-specific sound configuration at runtime.
- Irix port.
+ 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.
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 exterior model and textures. Lewis's work is pretty much
- as converted from the original. The interior cockpit was added by
- Jim Wilson.
+ 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
Generalized input module
3D model animation module
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.
+ 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>
Contributed beginnings of a textured instrument panel.
+Frederic Bouvier <frbouvi@wanadoo.fr>
+ Added French language support
+ 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.
+
+
Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@games.no>
Incorporated the Gnu automake/autoconf system (with libtool).
This should streamline and standardize the build process for all
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.
Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se>
Contributed to the installation / user guide.
+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
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.
+Davud 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
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>
3d clouds
+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.
+
+
+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. ]
Updated 2001-12-11 by David Megginson, david@megginson.com
+Updated 2003-04-17 by Erik Hofman, erik@ehofman.com
+Updated 2004-06-01 by Erik Hofman, erik@ehofman.com
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