> Andy Ross schrieb: > > Dai Qiang wrote: > > > >>I'm wondering, if it's possible to calculate and record the pressure > >>distribution on all parts of a plane, e.g. gears, wings etc, when > >>it's landing? > > [snip] > Dai Qiang, for what do you need that data? > > I can only think of animating the model. This works already for the gear > model. And an reasonable animation of the wings could be easily faked. > All you need is the amount of lift they produce. Divide that with a > constant weight-force of the plane (e.g. MTOW * earth acceleration) and > you get a number that is zero when the wings produce no lift and 1 > during a steady flight (and somewhere above 7 when the wings break...)
I thought more about structural integrity and the residual weakness after the plane is abused beyond the certified envelope rather than the way it is animated when I read the original poster. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@flightgear.org http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
