Introduction

FlightGear (http://www.flightgear.org) is an open source flight simulator that is even used in flight schools to train basic maneuvers, radio communication and navigation tasks. It is available for windows, mac and linux.

In this article I want to introduce my development of the Perlan2, a Stratospheric Glider based on the original aircraft from http://www.perlanproject.org/.

Features

1:1 Model in many parts modified, the original 3d-model I got from the perlanproject member Carlos Reynoso.

Aero-tow action for multiplayer programmed with an AI-towing aircraft. It will tow the glider to 10000 ft in 27 minutes, 60 waypoints are used.

Drag parachute designed and implemented, for descending from high altitudes.

Riding on the wave lift in 30000 ft in Patagonia.

Full instrumentation, all animations in multiplayer mode and real flight characteristics are some more features. I build this in 3 month work with a private dropbox link for testing and have released it today.

Project

This glider will ride on the wave lift to 90000 ft without engine. Besides ridge lift and thermals the wave lift is considered as utilizable for commercial flights, this project will improve this knowledge and is also used for measure details in the stratosphere.

• Technology Stack
  I used 3D modelling with Blender, animations and all basics in FlightGear specific xml-files, some programming in nasal language.

• Roadmap
  Implementing flexing wings and a better wave lift model.

• How to contribute?
  Pull request to my github repository or direct contact via Mumble FlightGear Chat.

Link to the latest commits

Initial upload:
https://github.com/HerbyW/Perlan2/commit/5eefd2729894bfc2d33e78604d0eca891bad0fcb

Steemit username in the readme.txt added:
https://github.com/HerbyW/Perlan2/commit/75eeae5cd2eef8c41c1294f49de571af5215e11a

Link to the repository

https://github.com/HerbyW/Perlan2

Proof of work

In my profile on Utopian.io, the github repo Perlan2 is listed in my project page, which is show in the screenshot as follows:

The login page on github.com is shown in the following screenshot:

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