Recent content by Mogeley

This plane was basically a flying gas can with engines. The skin of the plane was literally held the fuel. They would warm up the skin of the plane before it would stop leaking fuel everywhere. Then use a midair refuel to top things off. There are many planes out today that would not fly if it...

I'm having trouble calculating the intersection nodes for a plane change in a format that are useful to me. Currently I can calculate the nodes in Lat/Long format (using initial and final Inclination and LAN). The part I'm having trouble with is converting the nodes to angles in reference to...

I have to agree. The moon is our nearest neighbor. I think returning to the moon permanently would be very good for the following reasons: 1) Learn how to permanently live in space 2) Try to be self-sufficient in space 3) It's the closest stable rock to land on. 4) If something goes wrong it's...

I don't know if there were any actual ICBM warhead tests... I don't think so. Probably too risky. The cone shaped warheads are covered by a heat shield and would probably be slowed to terminal velocity before detonation. I don't think the velocity of the matter in a nuclear explosion matters...

Sound waves are simply vibrations. A large waterfall is a non-distinct "shhhhh" sound as the falling water drops hitting the rocks is a very consistent way, so the sound blends together. The crackling sound is globs of fuel burning in tiny bursts. Each burst can be rather violent so it "pops"...

I've seen that and heard of that. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it's usually connected with a video card starting to die, and performing bad video calculations. :(

Sure just after the US mission to Mars... I'm just saying the UN is useless, and the US will be on Mars first...

It used to be that developers (programmers) were the game designers. Programmers always have fresh new ideas. The problem I've been seeing lately is that the gaming industry has become like the movie industry. More orientated towards sales than making cool and fun games. As other's have said...

I saw that someone already mentioned this, but I thought I'd add to the comments on the top air intakes. Typically engines are not put on top of the wing for several reasons: 1) reduces lift 2) Engines run better without turbulent air from the body of the aircraft. Even F-16's have the air...

you'd spend less energy building a recycling plant on the moon, maintaining it, and flying junk to it than the energy required to actually hit the sun. Your delta-V to hit the sun is roughly 30,000 m/s - orbital velocity. Besides once you throw it in the sun it's gone. If you recycle it then...

It depends on how FSX was written. If it takes full advatage of multiple cores and high end graphics cards then you want a multi core machine with a good graphics card. If it's single threaded then you want a lighting fast single core processor, with a good video card. My machine is an i7...

Seems short sighted to me. The previous plan of heading back to the moon and finding a way to live permanently on the moon, is a much better goal, that can lead to better long term goals. 1) It doesn't cost as much 2) the moon is closer 3) You can abort a mission to the moon. 4) if they can...

Thanks! This works great! I was able to just drop it in my code and use it.

On my Machine: i7 quad core Vista 64 bit 12GB ram Nvidia GTX 285 Orbiter stays very fluid. there is only a few moments close to the ground near Cape Canaveral that the frame rate slows a bit. However the thing that will absolutely kill my frame rate is not polygon count, certain MFD's, or...

Anyone tried setting this thing off behind the moon rover on the moon? Any luck getting ground vehicles into orbit? And to think an XR5 can carry 144 of these babies. Who needs fuel anymore... :lol: ---------- Post added 04-08-10 at 01:44 PM ---------- Previous post was 04-07-10 at 03:56 PM...