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That's the whole aircraft repository (about 30 GB I think) - with svn, you can checkout 'any subdirectory (see here for instructions). But if you want to try the stable version, you don't need repository magic - FG itself will offer you the option to download that (via http) in the launcher...

Ever wished for the ultimate HW to run the Shuttle sim? Stafford Air and Space Museum got the NASA fixed base simulator - and I've just been contacted by the company preparing the exhibit about how the FG Shuttle can be rigged to drive the displays and external visuals. I guess that'd be...

It's probably tabulated somewhere in the NASA archives (I would assume the orbit wasn't long-term stable, so the elements drift over time) - then from that data you can work.

Largely because these were large drones - which could have carried explosives. The event has thus proven that it would be entirely possible to fly one or several drones carrying explosives on a major airport and detonate them on fully fueled planes with passengers inside - without any...

WIth this 'argument', you can dismiss any criticism of pretty much anything. Most people are not experts in <insert problem here>, and experts in <insert problem here> make mistakes - so is everyone always supposed to shut up about it? I am and remain shocked that it's that easy and cheap to...

It's been a while, but I'm now adding support for rendezvous calculations into the tool - here's a first test for a relative motion plot - both target and chaser initialized at the same position, but chaser has a lower speed. The plan is to add a search for the best transfer orbit as well as...

It frankly doesn't sound overly compelling. Sure, a drone falling down could potentially crash into something and cause damage. It could crash into something really expensive (like an airplane). A bullet could cause damage to something (actually, shooting at a very steep angle, the point where...

It does seem spooky that this is possible at all. I'd have imagined that someone would have anticipated the scenario even a few years ago, there'd be all sorts of contingency plans in the drawer and the whole situation would be resolved within 30 minutes. Actually what have security people been...

A special treat for those enjoying emergencies in space - there's now a viable simulation of a fire in an avionics bay. Here's the SM SYS SUMM 1 display showing the increasing smoke concentration in avbay 2 (and to a lesser degree in the other detectors) during the second fire test. (upper...

Ah, if only people would describe this problem properly up-front :) Yes, I completely agree with MontBlanc2012 - that's the thing you have to do if you're interested in high accuracy.

(I assume you're fine with an approximate answer - in general if you want the real accurate answer you have to solve the full problem with gravitational potentials) If you know the function that connects the curve (an unperturbed closed orbit for instance would be nearly an ellipse) you can...

I'd suspect that the key bindings are caught by the OS to do something else, so I'd simply try to assign different keys to the functions you want.

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Turns out this already has been done for lower Manhattan The whole scenery is here (I recommend to check license with the author before working with it for Orbiter adaption - likely it's GPL, but I won't vouch for it): https://github.com/mherweg/NewYork-fg-CustomScenery

Generally you need some rendering trickery (merging the meshes and using texture atlases, instancing, intelligent LOD management...) to make a whole city composed of individual buildings work performance-wise. Flightgear has a toolchain to convert OSM data to 3d meshes, and there's currently...

Power loss during the night portion of the orbit - emergency flashlight out and trying to make sense of the electric system: (I actually never planned such a scenario, but the effect family we use for rendering the interior has it, and since during a moonless night it actually gets really...

Let's do the test first - if we end up having to mail the stick, I'm not sure what this comes to.

Okay, after a discussion - we'd first try how much upload speed we can get with your FTP server first (at the same time you can verify that you have the codecs to view the files (though this did work out of the box for me under Win)). If that works okay, we'd continue file by file (might take a...

You're the first one to ask, so we're a bit in uncharted territories...:) Our constraint is that we're sitting on a rather asymmetric 4G connection (the price of living in such a nice landscape...) - we have a decent download speed, but our upload speed is ~100 kbit/s, which makes uploading...

Now there's a question... The PAL DVD format resolution we're producing in is 720x576 pixels and I believe DVD doesn't do any higher. NTSC is a bit lower, but I don't recall the numbers offhand. We however record and process in 1080x720 pixels and the master files for the project are at that...