I have a little request if someone out there is interested in such a thing.
Mojave, CA is home to Scaled Composites (Burt Rutan, Spaceship1),
Orbital Dynamcics, The National Test Pilot School, Flight Research Inc.
and several others. It is sort of the civilian counterpart to Edwards
in many ways.
One of the really distinctive featurs of Mojave is the rows of wind
turbines on the ridges above town. Here's a picture I took the first
time I was out there:
http://www.flightgear.org/~curt/Photos/KMHV/Link/img_2704.html
You can see the same thing from the satellite imagery. There are
hundreds of these arranged in neat rows:
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=mojave,+ca&ll=35.050797,-118.27177&spn=0.023679,0.0421&t=k
I don't think we could model all of these at their real density level,
but it would be kind of cool to put in every other one, or maybe every
3rd or 4th one depending on what the graphics load turns out to be.
Last time I checked we already had an animated wind turbine model with
moving blades.
If you found the two end points of a row in google maps (which does a
pretty good job of giving you accurate lon/lat) then you could write
some little bit of code to generate the intermediate points and spread a
few towers along the row, and maybe even output the .stg lines
directly. If you sent these to Jon Stockhill, he could find all the
proper elevations for you and include them in the FG object database.
Adding these wind turbines would really spiff up the area ... anyone
interested in working on this?
Thanks,
Curt.
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