This meeting's great big wall o' news.
Sam Merrit, wearing a cool new 'Will Code For...' LUGOD t-shirt!
Some of the hardware our speakers brought for the demonstrations.
More hardware.
You can't fly without the right controls!
Close-up of the joystick.
About 25-30 people eventually wandered in for the talks.
Andy Ross, making sure he's hooked up to the projector.
Getting the meeting started.
Andy Ross, creator of the YaSIM project, getting started with
his slides on FlightGear.
Remember! FlightGear is not a game! :^)
Andy demonstrating how to fly...
Preparing for the OpenGC glass cockpit part of the talk.
Eek! It's that Microsoft paperclip thing! ;^)
John Wojnaroski, talking about OpenGC, which he created.
The left two screens are running the OpenGC glass cockpit display off of
one, multi-headed Linux box. The far right screen is FlightGear running
on a second computer, networked with the first one.
One of the glass cockpit displays.
John Wojnaroski, talking about the autopilot code.
Bill Broadley and Joel Baumert of LUGOD helped John and Andy rewire the
systems and displays for the presentations.
FlightGear under Linux - A jumbo jet, ready and waiting to fly.
Jim Brennan, who has an extremely cool flight simulator system
set up at his home, talks about it briefly.
Andy wrote a simulated (fully 3D) cockpit code, which others in the FlightGear
community ran with.
FlightGear, with a military Heads Up Display (HUD), and flying a Harrier
Jumpjet.
Get the Harrier up to 60 knots, and you can just lift off!
Seeing a FlightGear plane model from the outside - a Trans-Canada Air Lines
jumbo jet model.
The jumbo jet model, from behind. Flaps and ailerons move with the
controls, just like a real plane!
From the inside of the jumbo-jet. The cockpit controls are all there!
Inside a plane with a rather tall cockpit.
To demonstrate the OpenGC glass cockpit software, we put one of the
multiheaded displays up on the projector (and the FlightGear display
on one of the small LCD monitors.)
John and Jim demonstrating OpenGC's smooth animation, crisp OpenGL graphics,
and intelligent autopilot.
