Manuel Bessler wrote: > BTW: What is the difference between Speedbrakes and Spoilers?
Typically "spoilers" refer only to flaps on the top of a wing. They spoil the lift generated and allow the plane to fly at a higher angle of attack for the same lift, and thus descend more steeply (or remain on the ground after landing). They also create a little drag of their own, but that is not their primary purpose. A speedbrake, on the other hand, is a pure drag device. Most of them are just flat plates that pop up when deployed. The A-4 has one on either side of the tail, and the Harrier has one on its underbelly. These things don't do anything but create drag. In the context of jetliners, I've seen the terms used interchangably to mean what I'm calling spoilers. > > Part of this is due to a blindingly stupid bug with ground effect that > > I discovered this weekend. > > Is there a way I could apply this to 0.8.0 which I currently have? Only by bugging Curt to make a new release. :) To be fair, building FlightGear from CVS really is no harder than building the source tarballs. Andy -- Andrew J. Ross NextBus Information Systems Senior Software Engineer Emeryville, CA [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.nextbus.com "Men go crazy in conflagrations. They only get better one by one." - Sting (misquoted) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
