Flight Simulator Demonstration Software -- KiteFlight and RevSim

KiteFlight

	Computer flight simulators are well-known entertainment in 
	computer games, but KiteFlight is not a toy. It is a design and 
	animation tool to create sport kite flying figures and routines. It
	will also create diagrams to be printed on paper.  And, it's not only
	one kite, but you can simulate the whole team! That's the real power of 
	KiteFlight, originating from the Dutch six-person team Dike Hoppers,
	which has successfully used it to design and learn their top class
	routines. 

	KiteFlight can be used for:

		- teaching stunts to flyers
    		- training judges
    		- informing event audience about compulsory routines
    		- designing routines for individuals, pairs and teams
		- printing stunt diagrams

	The author of KiteFlight is Peter van den Hamer 
	(vdhamer@prl.philips.nl) from Holland. 
	KiteFlight was published in June 1994 on a floppy disk.

	A demo version of KiteFlight and simulations for the rule book 
	compulsory figures (by Simo Salanne) can be found in rec.kites 
	archives .../simulation/kfd. 

	KiteFlight supports all major PC color graphics modes (EGA, 
	VGA, SuperVGA), prefers a 386 or better (but works on antiques 
	too). Note that the speed of flight is NOT influenced by the speed 
	of your hardware (real time!):  slower machines sometimes produce 
	somewhat jerkier motions than faster ones. KiteFlight runs on 
	DOS, Windows not required and not recommended.

	Simo Salanne (salanne@csc.fi)

	Peter van den Hamer (vdhamer@prl.philips.nl) posted an article
	on July 6, 1994, which provids more information about the
	simulator.  Check the archives for this article.  Also noted
	in the article is a KiteFlight compatible program, XKF, that
	runs on UNIX workstations and supports almost all KF1 constructs.
	XKF was written by Lee Hetherington (ilh@lcs.mit.edu).


RevSim - The Revolution Simulator 

	RevSim is a real-time, pilot-in-the-loop, visual simulation of a
	Revolution kite. RevSim has been programmed in C, uses EGA-graphics,
	and should run on every 386 and up under DOS.

	The pilot uses a mouse to emulate both Revolution handles (which is
	not too easy) and follows the motions of kite, lines, and handles on
	the screen.

	You can change almost any kite parameter (mass, wingspan, damping,
	line length, wind speed, ...) via a parameter file.  You want to
	simulate a 10 m jumbo revolution with a mass of 100 gram in a 50 m/s
	hurricane? Give it a try ...

	A simple autopilot (stabilizer) is included in RevSim to assist the
	inexperienced rev-pilot and teach her/him the basic figures a
	Revolution can do.

	The author of RevSim is Joerg J. Buchholz (fk2m@bfkvax.fm.bs.dlr.de),
	who is greatly appreciative of any RevSim-related feedback from you.
	RevSim waits for you at ftp.hawaii.edu/pub/rec/kites/simulation/revsim
	and is absolutely free for noncommercial use.

	Joerg J. Buchholz (fk2m@bfkvax.fm.bs.dlr.de)