Now that we have a jeep and a snowplow in the FlightGear fleet (and the
possibility of creating other interesting surface vehicles) I feel strongly
that we need a nice 3d model of a ramp in the Models/ directory. This would
be the sort of ramp that Evel Knievel would use, not some other sort of
ramp. My plan would be to setup the ramp somewhere for launch, then put a
recover ramp on the other side, park a 747 in the middle and see if I can
jump it with the snow plow.
I'd suggest making the ramp 2 lanes wide ... so about 6-8 meters wide.
Maybe a 10-15 degree incline? If the incline is too steep and we hit the
ramp too hard, it will generate a "crash" due to excessive gear
compression. So we have to find a good balance with the ramp slope. Then
if it was rather large we could sink it or raise it up depending on how far
we wanted the snowplow to sail in mid-air and what sorts of things we were
attempting to jump.
Is there anyone out there who would be willing to build a nifty looking 3d
ramp model for me and maybe paste a cool texture or two on it so it looks
sweet? A separate ring of fire that could be placed in the middle wouldn't
hurt either.
This would be purely for fun and silliness (and maybe to demo the
interesting physics capabilities of our surface vehicles.)
Thanks,
Curt
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Curtis Olson: http://baron.flightgear.org/~curt/
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