1 A very special thanks is due to the following people and groups.
3 Note: as hard as we've tried, it is impossible to perfectly maintain
4 this file. If you are aware of someone who you think should be
5 included here, PLEASE let me know. Projects like this are made
6 possible only by the help and hard work of others. I want to properly
7 credit everyone who has contributed to this project.
10 Raul Alonzo <amil@las.es>
11 Mr. Alonzo is the author of Ssystem and provided his kind permission
12 for using the moon texture. I also used parts of his code as a template
13 when adding the texture. Ssystem Homepage can be found at:
14 http://www1.las.es/~amil/ssystem
17 Michele America <nomimarketing@mail.telepac.pt>
18 Contributed to the HUD code.
21 Michael Basler <pmb@knUUt.de>
22 Author of the Getting Started guide.
25 Jon S. Berndt <jsb@hal-pc.org>
26 Working on a complete C++ rewrite/reimplimentation of the core FDM.
27 Initially he is using X15 data to test his code, but once things are
28 all in place we should be able to simulator arbitrary aircraft.
29 Maintains a page dealing with Flight Dynamics at:
30 http://www.hal-pc.org/~jsb/flightsim.html
31 Special attention to X15 is paid in seperate pages.
34 Paul Bleisch <pbleisch@acm.org>
35 Paul redid the "debug" system so that it would be much more flexible,
36 so it could be easily disabled for production system, and so that
37 messages for certain subsystems could be selectively enabled.
38 Also contributed a first stab at a config file/command line parsing
42 Jim Brennan <jj@kingmont.com>
43 Provided a big chunk of online space to store USA scenery for Flight Gear.
46 Bernie Bright <bbright@c031.aone.net.au>
47 Many C++ style, usage, and implementation improvements.
48 STL portability, tons o' stuff. :-)
49 Currently trying to get a BeOS port together but life keeps getting
53 Bernhard H. Buckel <buckel@mail.uni-wuerzburg.de>
54 Contributed the README.Linux
55 Co-Author of the "Getting Started Manual"
58 Gene Buckle <geneb@deltasoft.com>
59 Gene has done a lot of work getting FG to compile with the MSVC++
60 compiler. Also, he has pushed, proded, and bugged me endlessly to
61 do my stuff right. (I mean that in a good way, because sometimes
62 when the little nudge in the right direction isn't working, I need
63 a good hard shove.) :-)
66 Ralph Carmichael <ralph@pdas.com>
67 Thanks to Ralph for his support of the FlightGear project. At
68 Public Domain Aeronautical Software you will find the PDAS CD-ROM for sale,
69 packed with great programs of use to aeronautical engineers. At this web
70 site there are also some sample downloads to show what is on the CD.
74 Didier Chauveau <chauveau@math.univ-mlv.fr>
75 Provided some initial code to parse the 30 arcsec DEM files found at:
76 http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/landdaac/gtopo30/gtopo30.html
79 Oliver Delise <delise@mail.isis.de>
80 FAQ Maintainer, Documentation, Public Relations.
81 Working on adding some networking / multi-user support.
82 Founder of the FlightGear MultiPilot Project :
83 http://www.isis.de/members/~odelise/progs/flightgear
86 Dave Eberly <eberly@magic-software.com>
87 Contributed some sphere interpolation code used by Christian Mayer's
88 weather data base system. Go to Dave's web site. He has a ton of
89 really useful looking code available there.
90 http://www.magic-software.com
94 Vector 2D, 3D, 4D and Matrix 3D and 4D inlined C++ classes. (Based on
95 Graphics Gems IV ed. Paul S. Heckbert)
96 http://www.animats.com/simpleppp/ftp/public_html/topics/developers.html
99 Francine Evans <evans@cs.sunysb.edu>
100 Wrote the @#$@#$@% GPL'd tri-striper we use and "love". :-)
101 http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~evans/stripe.html
104 Oscar Everitt <bigoc@premier.net>
105 Created single engine piston engine sounds as part of an F4U package
106 for FS98. They are pretty cool and Oscar was happy to contribute
107 them to our little project.
110 Bruce Finney <bfinney@gte.net>
114 Jean-loup Gailly and Mark Adler <zlib@gzip.org>
115 Authors of the zlib library. Used for on-the-fly compression and
116 decompression routines.
117 http://www.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/zlib/
120 Thomas Gellekum <tg@ihf.rwth-aachen.de>
121 Changes and updates for compiling on FreeBSD
124 Jeff Goeke-Smith <jgoeke@voyager.net>
125 Contributed our first autopilot. (Heading Hold)
126 Better autoconf check for external timezone/daylight variables in
130 Michael I. Gold <gold@puck.asd.sgi.com>
131 Patiently answered my endless "newbie" OpenGL questions.
132 His effort alone has made me a great SGI fan.
135 Habibie <habibie@MailandNews.com>
136 RedHat package building changes for SimGear.
139 Charlie Hotchkiss <clhotch@pacbell.net>
140 Worked on improving and enhancing the HUD code.
141 Lots of code style tips and code tweaks ...
144 Bruce Jackson of NASA <e.b.jackson@larc.nasa.gov>
145 Developed the LaRCsim code under funding by NASA which we use to provide
146 the flight model. Bruce has patiently answered my many, many questions.
147 http://dcb.larc.nasa.gov/www/DCBStaff/ebj/ebj.html
150 Richard Kaszeta <bofh@me.umn.edu>
151 Contributed screen buffer to ppm screen shot routine.
152 Rich has also helped in the early development of the Flight Gear "altitude
153 hold autopilot module" by teaching Curt Olson the basics of Control Theory
154 and helping him code and debug early versions. Curt's "Boss" Bob Hain
155 also contributed <bob@me.umn.edu>. Further details available at:
156 http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt/fgfs/Docs/Autopilot/AltitudeHold/AltitudeHold.html
157 Rich's Homepage: http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta
160 Tom Knienieder <tom@knienieder.com>
161 Ported Steve's Audio library first to OpenBSD and IRIX and
162 after that also to Win32
165 Reto Koradi <kor@mol.biol.ethz.ch>
166 Helped me get on track with setting up fog effects.
167 http://www.mol.biol.ethz.ch/wuthrich/people/kor
170 Bob Kuehne <rpk@who.net>
171 Redid the Makefile system so it is simpler and more robust.
174 Christian Mayer <flightgear@christianmayer.de>
175 Working on a multi-lingual conversion tools for fgfs
176 as a demonstration of technology ;-)
177 Contributed code to read msfs formated texture files.
178 Working on a completely new weather subsystem.
179 Working on a balloon simulator.
182 David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
183 Contributed a patch to allow mouse input to control the yoke.
184 Contributed financially towards hard drive space for use by the
186 Updates to README.running.
187 Working on getting fgfs and ssg to work without textures.
188 Also added the new 2D panel and the save/load support.
191 Eric Mitchell <mitchell@mars.ark.com>
192 Contributed some topnotch scenery textures. His textures were
193 all original creations.
196 Anders Morken <amrken@online.no>
197 Maintained the European mirror of the FG web pages.
198 Unfortunately this mirror has been taken down due to reglementation
199 changes including an enforcement to 10 MB space per subscriber limit
200 which was way too small for the evergrowing FGFS Project's Files.
201 He'd be happy to maintain a new one if he could find a place to put it,
202 so if you have an idea, contact him!
205 Alan Murta <amurta@cs.man.ac.uk>
206 http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/aig/staff/alan/software/
207 Created the Generic Polygon Clipping library
210 Phil Nelson <phil@cs.wwu.edu>
211 Author of GNU dbm. gdbm is a set of database routines that use
212 extendible hashing and works similar to the standard UNIX dbm routines.
215 Alexei Novikov <anovikov@heron.itep.ru>
216 Created European Scenery
217 Contributed a script to turn fgfs scenery into beautifully rendered
219 Contributed a first draft of a scenery creation howto.
222 Curt Olson <curt@flightgear.org>
223 Curt is responsible for overall project and source code management.
224 He has his hands in many of the areas, but is primarily responsible
225 for the scenery subsystem, as well as much of the infrastructure in
229 Tony Peden <apeden@earthlink.net>
230 Contributions on the flight model front, including a LaRCsim based
231 Cessna 172. JSBsim: the initial conditions code, a more complete
232 standard atmosphere model, and other bugfixes/additions.
233 His Flight Dynamics page can be found at:
234 http://www.nwlink.com/~apeden
237 Robin Peel <robin@cpwd.com>
238 Maintains the ever growing worldwide airport, runway, and navigation
239 aid database for the Flight Gear project as well as for X-Plane.
242 Alex Perry <arp11@pacbell.net>
243 Contributed code to more accurately model VSI, DG, Altitude.
244 Contributed to the Install and Getting Started manual.
247 Friedemann Reinhard <mpt218@faupt212.physik.uni-erlangen.de>
248 Contributed beginnings of a textured instrument panel.
251 Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@games.no>
252 Incorporated the Gnu automake/autoconf system (with libtool).
253 This should streamline and standardize the build process for all
254 Unix-like platforms. It should have little effect on IDE type
255 environments since the don't use the Unix make system.
258 William Riley <riley@technologist.com>
259 Contributed code to add "brakes".
260 Patch to support a first joystick with more than two axes.
263 Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se>
264 Mr. Schlyter provided Durk Talsma with all the information
265 he needed to write the astro code. Mr. S. is also willing
266 to answer astro-related questions whenever one needs to.
267 http://welcome.to/pausch
270 Chris Schoeneman <crs@millpond.engr.sgi.com>
271 Contributed some 3d sound playing code for Irix, Win32, and Linux
272 It is unclear if this code will be used directly, but it certainly
273 will have an influence on the development of our own audio library.
276 Phil Schubert <philip@zedley.com>
277 Contributed various textures and engine modelling.
278 http://www.zedley.com/Philip/index.htm
281 Jonathan R Shewchuk <Jonathan_R_Shewchuk@ux4.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
282 Author of the Triangle program. Triangle is used to calculate the
283 Delauney triangulation of our irregular terrain.
286 Gordan Sikic <gsikic@public.srce.hr>
287 Contributed a cherokee flight model for LaRCsim.
288 Currently is not working and needs to be debugged.
289 Use configure --with-flight-model=cherokee
290 to build the cherokee instead of the navion.
293 Michael Smith <msmith99@flash.net>
294 Contributed cockpit graphics, 3d models, logos, and other images.
295 Project Bonanza - http://members.xoom.com/ConceptSim/index.html
298 U.S. Geological Survey
299 Provided geographic data used by this project
300 http://edcwww.cr.usgs.gov/doc/edchome/ndcdb/ndcdb.html
303 Durk Talsma <d.talsma@chello.nl>
304 Accurate Sun, Moon, and Planets.
305 Sun changes color based on position in sky.
306 Moon has correct phase and blends well into the sky.
307 Planets are correctly positioned and have proper magnitude.
308 Help with time functions, gui, and other misc stuff.
309 2D Cloud layers (nifty).
310 http://people.a2000.nl/dtals
313 UIUC - Department of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
314 Contributed modifications to LaRCsim to allow loading of aircraft
315 parameters from a file. These modifications were made as part of an
316 icing research project.
318 Did the coding and made it all work:
319 Jeff Scott <jscott@students.uiuc.edu>
320 Bipin Sehgal <bsehgal@uiuc.edu>
321 Michael Selig <m-selig@uiuc.edu>
323 Helped support the effort
324 Jay Thomas <jthomas2@uiuc.edu>
325 Eunice Lee <ey-lee@students.uiuc.edu>
326 Elizabeth Rendon <mdfhoyos@md.impsat.net.co>
327 Sudhi Uppuluri <suppulur@students.uiuc.edu>
330 Mark Vallevand <Mark.Vallevand@UNISYS.com>
331 Contributed some METAR parsing code.
332 Contributed some win32 screen printing routines.
335 Gary R. Van Sickle <tiberius@braemarinc.com>
336 Contributed some initial GameGLUT support and other fixes.
337 Has done some interesting preliminary work on a binary file format
338 http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/ORKiD/fgfs.htm
340 Has set up a 'Cygwin Tips' site that has been very helpful to many
341 people in getting a Cygwin Unix-on-Windows build environment set up
342 so they can build FG effectively.
343 http://www.woodsoup.org/projs/ORKiD/cygwin.htm
346 Norman Vine <nhv@yahoo.com>
347 Provided more than uncountable URL's to the "FlightGear Community".
348 Many performance optimizations throughout the code.
349 Many contributions and much advice for the scenery generation section.
350 Lots of windoze related contributions.
351 Contributed wgs84 distance and course routines.
352 Contributed a great circle route autopilot mode based on wgs84 routines.
353 Many other GUI, HUD, and autopilot contributions.
354 Contributed a patch to allow mouse input to control view direction.
357 Roland Voegtli <voegtli@sanw.unibe.ch>
358 Great photorealistic textures.
359 Founder of European Scenery Project for X-Plane
360 http://www.g-point.com/xpcity/esp/
363 Carmelo Volpe <carmelo.volpe@mednut.ki.se>
364 Contributed some work to porting Flight Gear to the Metro Works
365 development environment (PC/Mac)
368 Darrell Walisser <dwaliss1@purdue.edu>
369 Contributed a large number of MacOS changes and has somehow managed
370 to get a pile of code written by a bunch of people who've never seen
371 a Mac to compile and run on said platform.
372 Provides MacOS-specific info in the docs.
375 Ed Williams <Ed_Williams@compuserve.com>
376 Contributed magnetic variation code (impliments Nima WMM 2000)
377 We've also borrowed from Ed's wonderful aviation formulary at various
379 http://www.best.com/~williams/index.html
382 Jean-Claude Wippler <jcw@equi4.com>
383 Author of MetaKit - a portable, embeddible database with a portable
384 data file format. This software is not GPL'd but the author is kindly
385 allowing us to bundle MetaKit with our code. MetaKit has a liberal
386 X/MIT-style license. Please see the following URL for more info:
387 http://www.equi4.com/metakit
390 WoodSoup Project http://www.woodsoup.org
391 Provided computing resources and services so that the Flight Gear
392 project could have real home. This includes, web services,
393 ftp services, shell accounts, email lists, dns services, etc.
396 Robert Allan Zeh <raz@cmg.FCNBD.COM>
397 Helped me tremendously in figuring out the Cygnus win32 compiler and
398 how to link with .dll's. With out him the first runable win32
399 version of FG would have been impossible.
406 THIS DOCUMENT WAS INITIALLY WRITTEN BY
408 Curt L. Olson <curt@flightgear.org>
411 THE CONTENTS WERE LASTLY RESEARCHED AND UPDATED MARCH, 8 2000
413 Oliver Delise <delise@mail.isis.de>