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+New in 0.7.3
+* May 18, 2000
+* Added a radio stack 2 VOR/ILS and an ADF to the instrument panel.
+  You can change the frequencies by clicking on the knobs on the
+  instrument panels.  You can now navigate with VOR/ADF/DME and fly
+  ILS approaches.
+* Added a chronometer to the instrument panel.
+* Added a "wet" compass to the top of the instrument panel.
+* Compass, vsi, and altitute instruments and vacuum system are more
+  accurately modeled.
+* Added a magnetic variation model.
+* Added navaid database management and query code.
+* Added magvar offset to VOR radials.
+* Heading bug now display magnetic heading rather than true heading.
+* Autopilot now has modes to track a VOR and GS.
+* Added custom joystick client support so sim can be flown from a
+  remote joystick connected to another machine.  This is in support of
+  some custom hardware located in the human factors research lab of the
+  university of minnesota.
+* HUD controls are a bit different "h" toggles through day/night/off
+  modes and "H" cycles through brightness levels.
+* Norman Vine contributed code to optionally do antialiased hud lines
+  on hardware that supports this.  Norman also contributed additional
+  hud cleanups and updates.
+* Updates to JSBsim flight dynamics code that includes a generic
+  reconfigurable flight control system, a initial state trimming routine,
+  support for wind and weather, support for flaps, independent trim control,
+  config files changes
+* Updates to LaRCsim flight dynamcis code contributed by UIUC that
+  allows loading aircraft specifications at runtime from config files.
+  UIUC is using flightgear as a platform to do icing research.  The UIUC
+  aircraft use the c172 gear model for now which causes some weirdness
+  on the ground for some of the larger aircraft.
+* Flight model no longer has to be chosen at compile time.
+* Separated ephemeris code from the actual sky rendering code and gave
+  this whole section a big overhaul.  The moon should now consistantly
+  have the correct phase.
+* Rebuilt the sky dome using ssg.
+* Removed dependencies on mat3.h and friends (old srgp support lib)
+* Airport lookups now done through gdbm (a light weight embedded database.)
+* Converted ssgVTable's to ssgVtxTables which do proper memory
+  management and should facilitate use of compiled vertex arrays once
+  ssg add support for these.
+* Overhauled autopilot internals, separated out the gui controls from
+  the actual autopilot code.
+* Cygwin32 build fixes
+* MSVC++ build fixes
+* Mac build fixes
+
+New in 0.7.2
+* February 17, 2000
+* Lots of code reorganizations
+* Build requires plib-1.1.x
+* Build requires SimGear-0.0.x
+* LaRCsim/c172 is now the default aircraft model.
+* Added flaps support to control model.
+* Lots of updates and tweaks for the LaRCsim/c172 model.
+* Use a more standard texture/blend mode combination for sun/moon halos to
+  avoid render path that's not supported by all cards/drivers.
+* Change reported speed on hud from V_equiv_kts to V_calibrated_kts
+* Instrument panel rewrite by David Megginson.  This isn't quite as flashy
+  as the first pass, but is much more functional, plays much better with 
+  opengl, and it should be relatively easy for someone with graphical skills
+  to make it look more spiffy.
+* MacOS fixes contributed by Darrell Walisser.
+* Many JSBsim updates.
+* Added a screen snapshot facility (F3).
+* Added a load/save state function contributed by David Megginson.
+* Added support for various I/O protocols and channels so that flightgear
+  can communicate with itself and other programs through a variety of means.
+* Bug fix:  The aircraft model used for external views was being included in 
+  the height above terrain check so when the view position and the aircraft
+  model collided the current altitude kept getting pushed up to compensate,
+  but of course the aircraft model would get pushed up as well because it
+  tracks the current aircraft position and orientation.  Thus you had a never
+  ending cycle ...
+* Oliver's multiplayer network code now moved to his own subdirectory:
+  NetworkOLK
+* Added simulated cloud puffs as we pass through the cloud layer.
+* Cleaned up some memory leaks occuring between ssg and flightgear.
+* Update to Christian's weather data base code.
+
 New in 0.7.1
 * Durk Talsma added a nifty cloud layer.
 * Default to Christian Mayer's new weather system.