-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
Contributed to the HUD code.
-Andrei Barbu "T"Eval" teval@myrealbox.com
+Emmanuel Baranger <>
+ Many, many very nice aircraft models.
+
+
+Andrei Barbu <andrei@0xab.com>
Designed and implemented the current version of the FlightGear website.
system.
+Matthias Boerner <>
+ Coorganizer of the FlightGear booth at the annual LinuxTag event in
+ Germany.
+
+
+Thorsten Brehm
+ Thorsten provided the TCAS system and fixed an uncountable number of
+ bugs, closed memory leaks and helps creating new releases.
+
+
+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.
Many C++ style, usage, and implementation improvements.
STL portability, tons o' stuff. :-)
Threading support and threaded tile pager.
+ Initiate the fgrun project
+
+
+Francesco Brisa <>
+ Scenery models and ground networks for Italian airports.
+ Scripts for automated source downloads and builds.
Bernhard H. Buckel <buckel@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de>
New instrument panel configurations
+Bertrand Coconnier
+ Contributed several bugfixes and improvements for the integration of
+ the JSBSim flight dynamics model.
+
+
Dave Cornish <dmc@halcyon.com>
Created our new, super cool, runway textures.
Created some of our cloud textures.
http://www.isis.de/members/~odelise/progs/flightgear
+John Denker
+ Contributed bugfixes and improvements to the navigation and ATIS code.
+
+
+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 the very nice Piper Seneca, closely modelled after the
+ real thing. Also added many other nice aircraft (such as the ogeL, also
+ closely modelled after the real thing), buildings, etc.
+ Creator of fgpanel. Code maintainer of weather, environment, autopilot
+ and many other core systems.
+
+
Dave Eberly <eberly@magic-software.com>
Contributed some sphere interpolation code used by Christian Mayer's
weather data base system. Go to Dave's web site. He has a ton of
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>
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.
+ 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,
Changes and updates for compiling on FreeBSD
+Ralf Gerlich <>
+ Technical Genius behind the Custom Scenery Project.
+ Current maintainer of TaxiDraw
+
+
+Anders Gidenstam <>
+ Added support for lighter than air vehicles to JSBSim.
+ Contributed simulation of wildfires and a basic system for dual control
+ of an aircraft over the multiplayer network.
+ Author of several airships and one aircraft.
+
+
Neetha Girish <neethagirish@usa.net>
Contributed the xml configurable HUD changes.
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.
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
Reigning list admin.
Provided man pages.
Self-proclaimed code janitor.
- FAQ maintainer.
+ 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>
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 script to turn fgfs scenery into beautifully rendered
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 <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.
+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>
environments since the don't use the Unix make system.
+Thorsten Renk
+ Created the local weather system, providing beautiful cloudscapes
+ and an accurate meteorological simulation.
+
+
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.
+ Greatly contributed to the FlightGear community as a very active
+ first aid responder on the official Flightgear forum, as a forum
+ and wiki admin, and as the editor of the monthly FlightGear
+ newsletter.
+
+
+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 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
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
It is unclear if this code will be used directly, but it certainly
Phil Schubert <philip@zedley.com>
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
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.
+ Maintains world's biggest repository and toolchain for free and
+ open map and scenery data at http://mapserver.flightgear.org/
+
+
+Jon Stockill <>
+ Maintainer of the object database.
Martin Dressler <dr@musicabona.cz>
Moon has correct phase and blends well into the sky.
Planets are correctly positioned and have proper magnitude.
Help with time functions, gui, and other misc stuff.
- Added the AirTraffic module for scheduled AI airliners and other aircraft.
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
Provides MacOS-specific info in the docs.
-Davud Culp <davidculp2@attbi.com>
+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
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
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.
+ Mathias is responsible for the transition to OSG and he added HLA support.
Harald Johnsen <hjohnsen@evc.net>
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>
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
+ Provided computing resources and services so that the FlightGear
project could have real home. This includes, web services,
ftp services, shell accounts, email lists, dns services, etc.
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 2000-03-08 by 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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