On Monday 10 Oct 2005 14:14, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > Le lundi 10 octobre 2005 à 12:06 +0100, AJ MacLeod a écrit : > > On Monday 10 October 2005 01:39, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > > > I need your remarks to improve it. > > > > Not knowing anything at all about the real aircraft, I'm not > > sure how much useful feedback I can give - other than it > > flies pretty nicely here (the nocarrier version). > > > > You've done a nice job on the model so far, I liked the > > refuelling probe, ejector seat handles etc... only immediate > > comment there would be that a "spin" animation for the > > wheels (like the Hunter now has) would make a massive > > difference. I'm sure you'll get round to it eventually... > > > > I look forward to the cockpit being completed - this seems > > like a nice and really interesting addition to the FG naval > > collection, thanks! > > Hi AJ, > > Many Thanks for your answer. > About animation you are right i forgot the the spin animation > wheel, it is easy to do. > In addition to, it should get the "ram air turbine" (RAT), but > i fear that will be to much details. > The FDM JSBSim in use is coming from Aeromatic, i only added > some extra components especially the the "variable wing > incidence". I will need a lot of days and many research to get > the right FDM parameters. The target is to be as close as > possible to the right aircraft specifications ( though.. the > speed take off and approach is not so bad). > That aircraft has been revolutionary when it arise in 1955. > If i can, i should do two versions (two different FDM) the > basic US NAVY one and the FRENCH NAVY one which had been > improved (by Vought Engineers ) in order to reduce the take > off and landing distance because of the low sized French > Carrier :=( > The last US NAVY group VFP 63 was stopped in 1982. > One Crusader has been in use by the NASA (i hope to be able > to draw the texture) the painting is wonderful. > On the French side it has been in use during 35 years ( last > flight December 15 1999 ). > Waiting for the Rafale, by 1992 it was refurbished with new > avionic equipment from Mirage 2000 and Super-Etendard . It > became F-8P. > > And > This is a call to everybody, every informations and data about > that Aircraft are Welcome. > > > Cheers > > > http://ghours.club.fr/F-8E.tar.gz
Nice work:) I believe that the F-8 that NASA has was used for 'super-critical' wing experiments - Good news: the data may be available - Bad news: it looks a lot different to the standard F-8 wing. LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
