Tupolev Tu-95MR Development for FlightGear

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 Tupolev Tu-95MR.

In 46000 ft altutude:

On ground with personal:

Characteristics

• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95
• Maximal start weight is: 188,000 kg = 414,500 lb
• Maximum speed: 920 km/h (510 knots, 575 mph)
• Range: 15,000 km (8,100 nmi, 9,400 mi) unrefueled
• Service ceiling: 13,716 m (45,000 ft)
• Rate of climb: 10 m/s (2,000 ft/min)
• Wing loading: 606 kg/m² (124 lb/ft²)
• Power/mass: 235 W/kg (0.143 hp/lb)
• Contra-rotating propellers

Development steps

I impoved this aircraft from the official version to a new variant MR. Full instrumentation, lots of animations, modified 3D-model, realistic FDM, multiplayer functions, done in month' of work with the help of some test pilots.

My last commit improved the cockpit lightning, engine smoke to more realistic and 3D sounds for engine start up and running engines. As only mono sounds are supported the 3D effect is done by position and angle of the noise. New version number 3.0.5.

Link to the repository

https://github.com/HerbyW/Tu-95MR

Latest commit

https://github.com/HerbyW/Tu-95MR/commit/6f382ee5d3c3144a3f250ab1cbbdfd9851d27227

Proof of work

In my profile on Utopian.io, the github repo Tu-95MR 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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