On Tuesday 11 Oct 2005 12:29, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > Le mardi 11 octobre 2005 à 04:10 +0100, Lee Elliott a écrit : > > On Monday 10 Oct 2005 14:14, Gerard ROBIN wrote: > > > 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. > > > > 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 > > You are right, the real information is : > NASA did use two AC one which look like to be normal, an > other with wings and fuse modifications (probably to compare > performances) > http://www.dfrc.nasa.gov/Gallery/Photo/Fleet/Medium/EC73-3495. >jpg We can find the same with F15. > > If i get time to do texture it will be only on the reference > one not on the experimental one. > > Cheer
I forgot about the DFBW F-8 - they were actually used for different projects. Using a DFBW painted F-8 would be appropriate for messing about with AP/FCS :) LeeE _______________________________________________ Flightgear-users mailing list [email protected] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-users 2f585eeea02e2c79d7b1d8c4963bae2d
