On Thursday 22 April 2004 20:29, Al West wrote: > Greetings All, > > I think it was very successful show. I estimate we got about 80 or so > people a day flying with FlightGear, around 10% managed to land. It was a > shame that we were not able to use the controls within the helicopter, due > to a 'feature' in HP/Compaq Machine USB controller. However the helicopter > was certainly the main attraction and IBM were running a competition to win > a camera of which part of the entry was to have visited the FlightGear > Stand. > > It was highly enjoyable to be able to talk to people about something one is > very interested in and I am disappointed that both days passed by so > quickly. My congratulations go out to the two Jons who did a fantastic job > in instructing during the show. It was great to be able to put some faces > to email addresses. > > I took some photos on the second day (I'm not even a photgrapher by any > means ;-) which are available at: > http://uk2004expo.fotopic.net/ > The images are between 300KB and 700KB (1280x1024) - sorry if you are on > dialup but I've not had time to crop and compress the images. > > The Fleet Air Arm Museum are very interested in having their own simulator > but this would depend on them being able to find a sponsor - so it's still > dubious as to if anything will happen in that respect. However I was > talking to one of the members of staff of the Aeronautical Department at > Imperial College (London) and they are in the process of looking for an > open-source flightsim for Linux and she was very excited to learn about > FlightGear. Also we came across another group who want to use FlightGear > for displaying and showing UAV data and position. > > Well I'm not a journalist either - but if anyone has any questions about > the show then feel free to ask. > > Cheers for now, > Al
It sounds as though things went really well - round of applause to all concerned. I wish I could have got up there, if only to visit but sadly, there wasn't any way I could make it. LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
