Granted permission for the flightgear project to use some of the
sound effects from their site.
+Mark Akermann <flightgear@akermann.org>
+ Redone sun code. The sun now consists of three textures with individual
+ colors which are calculated based on the effect of light scattering.
+ This is accomplished by using various environmental data and by
+ calculating the distance the light travels through the atmosphere.
+
Raul Alonzo <amil@las.es>
Mr. Alonzo is the author of Ssystem and provided his kind permission
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.
-Jon S. Berndt <jsb@hal-pc.org>
- Working on a complete C++ rewrite/reimplimentation of the core FDM.
- Initially he is using X15 data to test his code, but once things are
- all in place we should be able to simulator arbitrary aircraft.
- Maintains a page dealing with Flight Dynamics at:
- http://www.hal-pc.org/~jsb/flightsim.html
- Special attention to X15 is paid in seperate pages.
+Paul Beardsley <Beardspa@hotmail.com>
+ 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.
+
+
+Jon S. Berndt <jon@jsbsim.org>
+ Chief architect of JSBSim, the default flight dynamics model (FDM)
+ for FlightGear. Jon's professional work has involved simulation and
+ prototyping for vehicles ranging from the F-16 to his current work
+ on the space shuttle and future manned launch vehicles. Since 1998
+ Jon has been working on creating JSBSim together with co-author Tony
+ Peden. JSBSim is an object-oriented, multi-platform aerospace
+ vehicle simulator that can be integrated with broader flight
+ simulation programs (since it provides no visual model), or run in a
+ standalone mode for batch runs. For more information, see the JSBSim
+ home page at: http://www.jsbsim.org
Paul Bleisch <pbleisch@acm.org>
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.
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
MSVC5 compatibility.
+Melchior Franz <mfranz@aon.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.
+ 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.
+ Started the Nasal library for easy model animation.
+ Reorganized the joystick code so it won't leave configuration data resident
+ for joysticks that aren't present.
+
+
Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler <zlib@gzip.org>
Authors of the zlib library. Used for on-the-fly compression and
decompression routines.
RedHat package building changes for SimGear.
+Dave Haskell <dave@haskell.demon.co.uk>
+ Original exterior textures for the Cessna 310 U-3A model. Only a few
+ minor modifications were made.
+
+
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.
+ 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.
Charlie Hotchkiss <clhotch@pacbell.net>
http://dcb.larc.nasa.gov/www/DCBStaff/ebj/ebj.html
+Maik Justus <fg@mjustus.de>
+ Developed YASim's helicopter/rotor logic.
+ Wrote the Bo105 helicopter FDM configuration file.
+
+
+Ove Kaaven
+ Debian packaging of SimGear/FlightGear
+
+
Richard Kaszeta <bofh@me.umn.edu>
Contributed screen buffer to ppm screen shot routine.
Rich has also helped in the early development of the Flight Gear "altitude
Rich's Homepage: http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
+Vassilii Khachaturov <vassilii@tarunz.org>
+ Support of navaids as autopilot waypoints.
+ Switching the tower view to a different tower at any time.
+ Various code, GUI, and documentation fixes and updates.
+
+
Tom Knienieder <tom@knienieder.com>
Ported Steve's Audio library first to OpenBSD and IRIX and
after that also to Win32
Redid the Makefile system so it is simpler and more robust.
+Chris Lampard <c.lampard@ntlworld.com>
+ Original exterior geometry for the Cessna 310 U-3A model. Several
+ modifications made but most of the exterior is as is converted from
+ Chris's original. The interior cockpit was added by Jim Wilson.
+
+
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 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
- Joystick support
+ 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>
Reigning list admin.
Provided man pages.
Self-proclaimed code janitor.
+ FAQ maintainer.
Anders Morken <amrken@online.no>
Contributed a first draft of a scenery creation howto.
-Curt Olson <curt@flightgear.org>
+Curt Olson <http://www.flightgear.org/~curt>
Curt is responsible for overall project and source code management.
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.
+ 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
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.
+ 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
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
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
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.
+ Created several excellent 3D aircraft models, including the p-51,
+ Wright Flyer and the Boeing 747.
Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw@equi4.com>
http://www.equi4.com/metakit
+John Wojnaroski <castle@mminternet.com>
+ Open Glass Cockpit project
+ 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.
+ Provided realistic wind, gravity and drag calculations for AIBallistic models.
+ Added the Fresnel Lens Optical Landing System and AI code for AICarrier and
+ AIShip, and implemented the TACAN navigation instrument
+
+
+David Culp <davidculp2@comcast.net>
+ Added the AI model and scenario code which allows non interactive models
+ (like aircraft, ships, ballistic models, storms and thermals) to move
+ around the scenery in a predefined way. Every model can have it's own
+ special characteristics. The thermal model for instance is a non-visible
+ model that creates an updraft around it's center.
+
+
+Mathias Fröhlich <Mathias.Froehlich@gmx.net>
+ Implemented the groundcache code which made it possible for aircraft
+ to follow the ground precisely and, as a result, made it possible to
+ 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.
+
+
+Harald Johnsen <hjohnsen@evc.net>
+ Added a new 3D cloud implementation which also works on big-endian machines.
+ This code allows for clouds of any types and any shapes (and even deformation
+ while moving).
+ Implemented volumetric shadowing.
+
+
+Roy Vegard Ovesen <rvovesen@tiscali.no>
+ Implemented the KAP140 autopilot.
+ Added a generic, XML configurable, autopilot framework.
+ Added an Altitude encoder.
+ Added a transponder.
+ Made the instruments code much more configurable, it is now possible to only
+ include instruments that are actually present.
+ Added several high level, configurable filter implementations for use by
+ autopilot designers.
+
+
+Stuart Buchanan <stuart_d_buchanan@yahoo.co.uk>
+ Substantial additions to the Getting Started Manual
+ Enhancements to the Cessna-310 3d model.
+ Added a generic yoke model, a generic throttle quadrant model and a
+ generic pedal set model.
+
+
+Stefan Seifert <nine@detonation.org>
+ Added the save-on-exit option to save the user preferences at program exit.
+
+
+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. ]
THIS DOCUMENT WAS INITIALLY WRITTEN BY
-Curt L. Olson <curt@flightgear.org>
+Curt L. Olson <http://www.flightgear.org/~curt>
THE CONTENTS WERE LASTLY RESEARCHED AND UPDATED MARCH, 8 2000
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
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